Publications and Commentary

Australian Strategic Policy

Stephan Fruehling on Australia's Last Priority October 2009
Stephan Fruehling on The Missing Link: Politics, Strategy and Capability Priorities Winter 2009
Hugh White on A Wobbly Bridge: Strategic Interests and Objectives in Force 2030 Winter 2009
Student Articles on Security Challenges Autumn 2009
Stephan Frühling, A History of Australian Strategic Policy Since 1945, Canberra: Defence Publishing Service, 2009.
Robert Ayson on themes in strategic thinking: 'Neighbours, Allies and Giants:Three Themes in Australian Strategic Thinking' July 2008
Stephan Fruehling on the White Paper and the Force structure: 'The White Paper and the Force Structure - Foreign Policy Nexus' July 2008 [pdf]
Hugh White, 'Strategic Interests in Australian Defence Policy: Some Historical and Methodological Reflections', Security Challenges, vol. 4, No. 2 (Winter 2008), pp. 63-79.
Stephan Frühling, 'Golden Window of Opportunity: An New Maritime Strategy and Force Sturcture for the Australian Navy', Security Challenges, vol. 4, No. 2 (Winter 2008), pp. 81-104.
Hugh White, 'The new defence white paper: why we need it and what it needs to do', Sydney: Lowy Institute, 2008.
Stephan Frühling,‘A New Defence White Paper: Moving On From the Five Circles?’ Security Challenges, vol. 3, no.4 (November 2007), pp. 95-112.
Stephan Frühling, ‘Balancing Australia’s Strategic Commitments,’ Security Challenges, vol. 3, no.3 (August 2007), pp. 145-159.
Robert Ayson, ‘The “Arc of Instability” and Australia’s Strategic Policy’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 61, no. 2 (June 2007), pp. 215-231.
Robert Ayson, ‘The Alliance and the Asia-Pacific Region: An Australian Perspective’, in Jeffrey D. McCausland, Douglas T. Stuart, William Tow and Michael Wesley (eds.), The Other Special Relationship: The U.S.and Australia at the Start of the 21^st Century (Carlisle, PA: USArmy War College Strategic Studies Institute, 2007), pp. 109-131.
Robert Ayson, ‘Understanding Australia’s Defence Dilemmas’, Security Challenges, vol. 2, no. 2 (July 2006), pp. 25-42.
Robert Ayson, ‘Australian Perspectives on East Asian Security’, in N.S. Sisodia and GVC Naidu (eds.), Changing Security Dynamic in Eastern Asia: Focus on Japan (New Delhi: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 2005), pp. 420-445.
Robert Ayson, ‘A Shift in Focus? Australia and Stability in East Asia’, Strategic Insights, no. 17 (Canberra: ASPI, June 2005).
Stephan Frühling, Ballistic Missile Defence for Australia: Policies, Requirements and Options. CanberraPaper, no. 151 (Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 2003).

Asia Pacific Security

Stephan Fruehling on NATO’s New Strategic Concept and US Commitments in the Asia-Pacific October 2009
Robert Ayson on Australia's Views of a Rising China September 2008
Brendan Taylor on Kevin Rudd's Asia-Pacific Community: 'Rudd's Asia-Pacific Community:Dead in the Water?'' August 2008
Robert Ayson and Brendan Taylor on China and the Olympics: 'Carrying China's Torch' August 2008
Brendan Taylor on North Korea: a Silver Lining May 2009

Robert Ayson, ‘Bilaterals, Trilaterals and Quadrilaterals: Japan-Australia Security Cooperation and Asia’s Future Order’, Journal of Australian Studies (Australian Studies Association of Japan) no. 21 (March 2008), pp. 18-28.
Brendan Taylor, ‘The Bush Administration and Asia-Pacific Multilateralism: Unrequited Love?”, Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 62, no. 1 (March 2008), pp. 1-15.
Brendan Taylor (ed.), Australia as an Asia-Pacific Regional Power: Friendships in Flux? (London: Routledge, 2007).
Brendan Taylor, ‘Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific’, in Ron Huisken and Meredith Thatcher (eds.), History as Policy: Framing the Debate on the Future of Australia’s Defence Policy (Canberra: ANU E Press, 2007), pp.117-128.
Robert Ayson and Desmond Ball (eds.), Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific (Crows Nest NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2006).
Robert Ayson, ‘Stability and Complexity in Asia-Pacific Security Affairs’, Asian Perspective, vol. 30, no. 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 179-192.
Robert Ayson, ‘Regional Stability in the Asia-Pacific: Towards a Conceptual Understanding’, Asian Security, vol. 1, no. 2 (April 2005), pp. 190-213.
Robert Ayson and Brendan Taylor, ‘Attacking North Korea: Why War Might be Preferred’, Comparative Strategy, vol. 23, no. 3 (July/August/September 2004), pp. 263-279

Strategic Theory

Stephan Frühling, ‘A Theoretical Perspective on Counterproliferation,’ in Bradley A. Thayer (ed.), American National Security: Essays in Honor of William R. Van Cleave(Fairfax, VA: National Institute Press, 2007), pp. 74-81.

Robert Ayson, ‘The Changing Character of Warfare’, in Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George (eds.), An Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 167-178.

Stephan Frühling, ‘Uncertainty, Forecasting, and the Difficulty of Strategy,’ Comparative Strategy, vol. 25, no. 1 (January-March 2006), pp. 19-32.

Robert Ayson, Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age: Strategy as Social Science (London: Frank Cass, 2004).

Robert Ayson, ‘Bargaining with Nuclear Weapons: Thomas Schelling’s “General” Concept of Stability’, The Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 23, no. 2 (June 2000), pp. 48-71.

Nuclear Weapons and Missile Defence

Stephan Fruehling on Regional Missile Defence Cooperation: A view from Australia October 2008
Stephan Frühling and Svenja Sinjen, Raketenabwehr, NATO, und die Verteidigung Europas. Analysen und Argumente, no. 40 (Berlin: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2007).
Stephan Frühling and Svenja Sinjen, ‘NATO Missile Defence: The Political and Operational Case for a Two-Base Structure’,RUSI Journal, vol. 151, no. 6 (December 2006), pp. 58-61.
Robert Ayson, ‘Selective Non-Proliferation or Universal Regimes?’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 59, no. 4 (December 2005), pp. 431-437.
Stephan Frühling, ‘”Bunker-Busters” and Intra-War Deterrence: A Case for Caution and Two Solutions,’ Comparative Strategy, vol. 24, no. 4 (October-November 2005), pp. 327-341.
Stephan Frühling, Ballistic Missile Defence for Australia: Policies, Requirements and Options. CanberraPaper, no. 151 (Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 2003).
Robert Ayson, ‘Management, Abolition and Nullification: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Strategies in the 21^stCentury,’ The Nonproliferation Review, vol. 8, no. 3 (Fall-Winter 2001), pp. 67-81.

New Zealand Defence Policy and Trans-Tasman Defence Relations

Robert Ayson, ‘The Australian-New Zealand Connection’, in Brendan Taylor (ed.), Australia as an Asia-Pacific Regional Power: Friendships in Flux? (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 129-141.
Robert Ayson, ‘New Zealand Defence and Security Policy, 1990-2005’, in Roderic Alley (ed.), New Zealand in World Affairs IV: 1990-2005 (Wellington: Victoria University Press in association with the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 2007), pp. 131-151.
Robert Ayson, ‘When Cooperation Trumps Convergence: Emerging Trends in Australia-New Zealand Defence Relations’, Security Challenges, vol. 2, no. 3 (October 2006), pp. 25-39.
Robert Ayson, ‘Australasian Security Policy: Old Agenda Divergence, New Agenda Convergence?’, in Derek McDougall and Peter Shearman (eds.), Australian Security After 9/11 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 161-172.
Robert Ayson, ‘New Zealand: Armed to Make a Difference?’, in Lorraine Elliott and Graeme Cheeseman (eds.), Forces for Good? Cosmopolitan Militaries in the 21st Century (Manchester:Manchester University Press, 2004), pp. 250-262.
Robert Ayson, ‘New Zealandand Asia-Pacific Regional Security: New Rationales for Engagement?’, Contemporary Southeast Asia, vol. 22, no.2 (August 2000), pp. 389-406.

Op-eds and Commentaries

Stephan Fruehling on A Case for Optimism in Afghanistan November 2009
Stephan Fruehling on The COIN Proxy War November 2009
Stephan Fruehling on COIN and its Critics October 2009
Brendan Taylor on The Six-Party Talks: Japan May Have to Lump It October 2008
Brendan Taylor on Australian public attitudes towards China: Lowy poll: Interpreting the China results October 2008
Robert Ayson on India's Nuclear Waiver: Status Quo on Unranium Sales the Safe Course September 2008