Analysis and Commentary

Robert Ayson on:

• North Korea's Reactor Shutdown

  
  'Is North Korea Seriously Disarming? 17 July 2007'

• The Northern Territory Intervention

  
  'Tide of Autonomy Ends'

• North Korea

  
  'The Six-Party Talks Process: Towards an Asian Concert?', Paper presented at Developing East Asia’s Security Architecture, A Joint ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre/China Centre for International and Strategic Studies Workshop, Beijing, 3 April 2007.

• Stabilisation Operations

  
  'When is it Safe to Leave? Finding Stability in Stabilisation Operations', ISA paper, March 2007. [pdf].

• alliances in the Asia-Pacific region

  
  'The Alliance and the Asia-Pacific Region: An Australian Perspective', 2007.

• Vice-President Cheney's Australia visit

  
  'PM's entree for Cheney', Herald Sun, 21 February, 2007 [pdf].

• The North Korean Nuclear Agreement

  
  'First step on a long nuclear road', Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia), February 15, 2007.

• China's Antisatellite Test

  
  'Hopes for sanity not yet lost in space', Australian, 25 January 2007 [pdf].

• Australia-New Zealand Defence Relations:

  
  'When Cooperation Trumps Convergence', October 2006. [pdf].

• Stability of Political Equilibria:

  
  'Seminar presented at the SDSC 2006 Seminar Series on The Power of More than One: The Complex Stability of Political Equilibria', 20 Oct. 2006 [pdf].

• the North Korean nuclear test announcement:

  
  'North Korea's test of patience', Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia), October 10, 2006 [pdf].

• how regional countries might respond:

  
  'An interview with Pyjamas media', [podcast].

• Australia-NZ-US trilateral relations:

  
  'Converging Without a Trilateral ANZUS? Australia, New Zealand, the US and the Regional Balance in Asia', June 2006 [pdf].

• American military action: (With Brendan Taylor)

  
  'Attacking North Korea: Why War Might be Preferred', Comparative Strategy 23:3, (July/August/September 2004) pp. 263-279..

• The US-India Nuclear Deal

  
  "India as a great nuclear power"