The Australia and the world section will look at Australia's foreign, defence and security policy with a long term, strategic focus, something which has been missing from recent policy debates in this area.
Is multilateralism back on the Australian governments’ agenda? What implications could this have for international security and stability and Australian democracy?
CPD fellow James Arvanitakis and Amy Tyler examine multilateralism in a post-September 11 and post-John Howard world, examining Colombia as a case study for change.
CPD Director Miriam Lyons and fellow Emma Dawson will join international researchers to present a workshop titled Narratives of Inclusion: Multiculturalism versus Plural Monoculturalism in Liberal Democracies at the 12th International Metropolis Conference on Migration, Economic Growth and Social Cohesion in October in Melbourne.
CPD members are invited to join Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down, and CPD fellow Ian Dunlop in Sydney on August 27th to discuss how we can build our capacity to deal with environmental and economic crises.
CPD Director Miriam Lyons will MC a session of the Melbourne Writers Festival "The Honest Trader" featuring John Pilger and Duncan Green at Federation Square, Melbourne, on Sunday August 24.
CDP fellow Ian McAuley surveys Australia's economic structure, including an outline of some long-term and medium-term challenges for Australian economic policy in his Australian Economic Fact Sheet for the
Conformity is the enemy of everything Australia is and needs to be in the twenty-first century, writes Emma Dawson. We need to look anew at cultural diversity through the lens of social cohesion.
Both sides are refusing to acknowledge that we will soon be faced with some very difficult strategic foreign policy challenges, writes Ben Eltham in Online Opinion.
How can we transform the risk of breakdown into an opportunity for renewal? Thomas Homer-Dixon explores the possibilities for positive change in this extract from ‘The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization’.
We need to look beyond the economic argument for enriching uranium, argues Marko Beljac, and consider the implications for nuclear non-proliferation and regional stability