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The United States should not seek strategic primacy in Asia
Benjamin HerscovitchMay 13, 2015China Spectator

The strategic sands in Asia are steadily shifting in China’s favour. With the People’s Liberation...

The rise of China’s imperial president
May 12, 2015
The rise of China’s imperial president
May 12, 2015
No political solution possible in Syria
Benjamin HerscovitchMay 8, 2015Ideas@TheCentre

Amid fresh reports of systemic war crimes and crimes against humanity, another push is being...

What are We Fighting For? Islamism and the Threat to Liberal Ideas
David KilcullenMay 3, 2015OP140

Counterinsurgency expert and military strategist Dr David Kilcullen delivered The Centre for Independent Studies’ 2014...

Nobody knows why Cameron wants to be PM
Peter SaundersMay 1, 2015Ideas@TheCentre

This UK election campaign has been the most tepid and uninspiring I can remember. Everyone...

Liberty, Equality and Unhappiness
Lauchlan ChipmanSeptember 26, 1978OP1

The first in the series of Occasional Papers. Professor Chipman uses in experience in the...

Wage-Price Control: Myth and Reality
Sudha R. Shenoy, Samuel Brittan, Michael R. Darby, Lee Eckermann, Malcolm Fisher, Milton Friedman, C. Jackson Grayson, Horst Mendershausen, Michael Parkin, Peter Samuel, Robert SchuettingerFebruary 1, 1978R1

The Centre for Independent Studies was set up with the object of providing a stream...

Trump’s goal to end Ukraine war makes moral sense
Tom SwitzerMarch 4, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN

Friday’s heated exchange in the White House was surely a regrettable moment in American diplomatic...

Albanese could learn from Howard when it comes to Indonesia
Andrew BlythSeptember 3, 2024SPECTATOR

Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto visiting Australia before he has even been inaugurated is a positive...

It’s the most volatile election in living memory and anything can and will happen
Tom SwitzerAugust 10, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

In five decades of living alternately on the two sides of the Pacific, I have...

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NATO’s Prophetic Critics. Expanding the alliance has led to a war many experts predicted
Tom SwitzerJune 10, 2024MODERN AGE

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a chorus of government officials, academics, commentators, and retired...

Why Republicans are sceptical about funding Ukraine
Tom SwitzerMarch 7, 2024SPECTATOR UK

When US policy-makers supported Nato expansion in the 1990s, it was widely believed that America,...

The West’s bid to expand NATO eastwards was a mistake
Tom SwitzerFebruary 24, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

For the people of Ukraine, the failure of Western nations to help them defeat Russia...

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