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Hitting pause on the eurozone crisis
Oliver Marc HartwichAugust 4, 2011Business Spectator

Every year, the Centre for Independent Studies hosts a high-level conference in Queensland. One of...

Complacency is the danger in Asia’s power games
John LeeAugust 1, 2011The Australian

IN an interview given to the University of Central Florida's Global Perspectives Office in late...

The famous and infamous Paul Wolfowitz
John LeeJuly 29, 2011

Before Paul Wolfowitz became famous (or infamous, depending on your politics) for his views on...

The PC empire strikes back
Oliver Marc HartwichJuly 20, 2011The Australian

FORMER career civil servants and central bankers seldom have star potential. Their work rarely excites...

Pakistan a Chinese pawn to stall India
John LeeJuly 19, 2011The Australian

AT the Shangri-La Dialogue meeting of defence ministers in Singapore last month, Indian Defence Minister...

Japan’s economic demons dog China
John LeeMay 24, 2011Business Spectator

The recent triple disasters of the tsunami, earthquake, and Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown means that...

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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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