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Italy defaults on debt and sends lenders broke? So be it
November 15, 2011Crikey

“Contracting debt will almost infallibly be abused in every government. It would scarcely be more...

Going long on European deja vu
Oliver Marc HartwichNovember 3, 2011The Business Spectator

Markets were euphoric, political leaders relieved. “Europe has taken a step forward. Europe and Greece...

Europe’s forgotten lessons of history
Oliver Marc HartwichOctober 28, 2011ThirdLink Newsletter

The rise and fall of the Euro is just another chapter in the long history...

The Kingdom of God is Forcefully Advancing and Forceful Men Lay Hold of It
David ColtartSeptember 14, 2011OP123

In the CIS’s annual Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom, Senator David Coltart discusses the...

Brace for Euro implosion – drop tax plans now
August 9, 2011CIS

As the world economy moves towards the abyss, the Gillard government must postpone the introduction...

Curing insanity with madness
Oliver Marc HartwichAugust 5, 2011

Peter Saunders has always been an outspoken academic. So it is no surprise that he...

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Defining Democracy Down: Political Judicialisation, Judicial Politicisation
Helen DaleJuly 21, 2022PP46
The overruling of Roe v Wade by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)...
Investor-State Arbitration and the Rule of Law: Debunking the Myths
Patrick CarvalhoApril 13, 2016Research Report 13

Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) is a legal provision in international agreements that enables foreign investors...

The Wasatia Movement: Moderation & Tolerance in Islam
Mohammed DajaniJune 4, 2015

Dr Mohammed Dajani, founder of the Wasatia Movement, discussed the formation of Al Wasatia, the...

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...

Preserving Peace as China Rises II: Preparing for a Post-American Asian Order
Benjamin HerscovitchSeptember 1, 2014FPA10

With US leadership unable to guarantee peace and security in the Indo-Pacific this century, the...

Preserving Peace as China Rises I
Benjamin HerscovitchMarch 13, 2014FPA9

Inventive foreign policy that can simultaneously reassure the Indo-Pacific’s established powers and accommodate Chinese ambitions...

The Waning Challenge of the ‘Authoritarian Capitalists’
John LeeApril 29, 2009The Diplomat

In 1990 Charles Krauthammer famously introduced the notion of the ‘unipolar moment’ to denote the...

Double-edged sword in Obama’s use of technology
John LeeJanuary 20, 2009Online Opinion

Is Barack Obama looking to broaden the appeal of the Democratic Party or is he...

Defend the individual and so the West
Ayaan Hirsi AliAugust 4, 2008The Sydney Morning Herald

Thinkers of the Enlightenment, a set of new intellectual attitudes that remade Western culture in...

EU’s Disdain for Voters
Peter SaundersJuly 16, 2008The Australian

A letterwriter to the London Times put his finger on it. ‘Can anybody explain to...

The real priorities
Bjorn LomborgAugust 8, 2006The Australian

A Mayor has a $10million surplus, which he wants to allocate to a good cause....

Germans bogged down in Red-Green quagmire
Wolfgang KasperJuly 12, 2004The Australian Financial Review

Australians, who are confused by the challenges of globalisation, innovation, ageing and the need to...

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