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Breaking the Trade Stalemate: What Are Australia’s Options?
Wolfgang KasperFebruary 12, 2001IA18

Australia’s best hope of long-term trade liberalisation lies in signing a free trade agreement with...

Setting the Record Straight: Free Trade and the WTO
David RobertsonSeptember 4, 2000IA15

By allowing social issues into the WTO agenda using tenuous links to trade policy, the...

Rear Vision on Trade Policy: Wrong Way, Go Forward
Ron DuncanSeptember 25, 1998IA5

Pig farmers seeking to stop imports of pork into Australia are standing candidates in 15...

Open for Business? Australian Interests and the OECD’s Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)
Wolfgang KasperApril 17, 1998IA1

This first Issue Analysis deals with the OECD’s Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) which the...

Nationality
Lord ActonDecember 1, 1997OP63

Is the nation state the best form of political organisation? Should a country’s borders be...

Australia’s Asian Challenge
Helen Hughes, Wolfgang Kasper, John MacleodFebruary 24, 1994PF12

Australia’s Asian challenge is to take advantage of the many opportunities for economic, cultural, social...

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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...

Sultan and Tsar walk into a bar…
Anastasia GlushkoDecember 11, 2015Ideas@TheCentre

…and the world comes pretty close to WWIII. Two weeks ago, fighter aircraft from NATO’s...

Beware the ideology of Islamism
Benjamin HerscovitchJanuary 30, 2015

The latest spate of radical Islamist terrorist attacks on schools, cafes, offices and other 'soft...

Iraq 2014 : This time it’s different
Amelia HaighOctober 10, 2014

Equating the invasion of Iraq in 2003 with the current anti-Islamic State intervention is misleading...

Widening war in Iraq and Syria is a necessary path to peace
Benjamin HerscovitchSeptember 12, 2014

US President Barack Obama was pilloried two weeks ago for admitting that his administration lacked...

Counterbalancing China in a post-American Asian order
Benjamin HerscovitchSeptember 5, 2014

Since World War II, the United States has been Asia's benevolent hegemon. Capitals across the region-from...

Hard-headed realism needed in the South China Sea
Benjamin HerscovitchAugust 13, 2014Business Spectator

Hopes of resolving the South China Sea’s bitter territorial disputes have once again proven illusory....

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