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The peacemaker

CISS Fellow John Lee recently wrote a topical piece on Chinese interests in the Middle East for the South China Morning Post.
Entangled ties: China, India and the new Pacific Century

CISS Associate Professor Jingdong Yuan continues the discussion of China in the news with a piece on the current situation between China and India.
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China won’t weaken our close US security ties[30 April 2013]

CISS Fellow John Lee recently wrote a topical piece on the implications of Australia’s relationship with China and has been published in the latest edition of American Review.
Getting China Right: America’s Real Choice[29 April 2013]

Read CISS Associate Professor Jing-dong Yuan’s short commentary on Hugh White’s The China Choice, published in the latest Security Challenges Journal.
Jing-dong Yuan’s chapter on China’s pursuit of seapower published by Georgetown University[24 April 2013]

CISS Associate Professor Jing-dong Yuan recently published a chapter in edited volume of Deep Currents and Rising Tides by Georgetown University.
2012 Graduate Felix Eldridge lands his dream job at United Nations[24 April 2013]

Felix Eldridge, a 2012 graduate from the Masters in International Security program was featured in the weekend paper of the Sydney Morning Herald for landing his dream job at the UN Women in Africa.
Competing for soft power in Asia[22 April 2013]

CISS Lecturer Frank Smith recently co-authored an article published on the Australian National University’s website discussing the struggle for ‘soft power’ in Asian states.
Prof. James Der Derian interviewed by CBC Radio News program[17 April 2013]

Treat N. Korea as nuke-armed adult[16 April 2013]

CISS Fellow Dr John Lee has published an opinion piece in The China Post on the possibility of North Korea becoming a permanent nuclear weapons state.
Dr John Lee appointed to the SBS Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors[9 April 2013]

Dr John Lee in The Australian: ‘China’s new team cut from the same military cloth’[9 April 2013]

CISS Fellow Dr John Lee has published an opinion piece in The Australian on China and Australia’s recent announcement of military co-operation.
A letter from the new Director of CISS, James Der Derian, Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies[3 April 2013]

Dr John Lee on ‘Intra-party war and fall of Kevin Rudd’[2 April 2013]

CISS Fellow Dr John Lee has published an opinion piece on Labor politics and Kevin Rudd in Singapore’s The Straits Times.
CISS at the International Studies Association Annual Convention 2013[21 March 2013]

Our CISS staff will be attending the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in April 2013 in San Francisco, California.
Dr Yvan Guichaoua visits from the University of East Anglia – “The Puzzle of Recruitment in Irregular Armed Groups[21 March 2013]
On 19 March 2013, the Centre for International Security Studies (CISS) hosted a roundtable with visiting academic Dr Yvan Guichaoua from the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia for postgraduate students and members of the Centre and the Department of Government and International Relations.
Launch of ‘Food Security in Asia – A Report for Policymakers’[12 March 2013]

On 11 March 2013, the Centre for International Security Studies (CISS) officially launched ‘Food Security in Asia – A Report for Policymakers’. The launch included an introduction from the Centre’s new Director and Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies, Professor James Der Derian.