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Episode 266: Diplomatic Reboot in India-Maldives Relations
Dr Athaulla Rasheed speaks to South Asia Chat

Dr Mercy Masta x Gender Equality, The Pacific Way
Dr Mercy Masta speaks to The Readout

Australia can’t afford an AUKUS about-face: 5 things the critics are getting wrong
Prof John Blaxland writes in The Conversation

Australia sends expert teams to Fiji as Chinese state-backed hackers attack Pacific Islands Forum
A/Prof Graeme Smith quoted in ABC News

‘Statecraftiness’: Mapping Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands
Dr Henrietta McNeill speaks in United States Institute of Peace

Pacific states are setting the terms of diplomatic engagement
Dr Henrietta McNeill and Maualaivao Maima Koro write in Development Policy Blog

Transformative and resilient: reflections from the 2024 Pacific Islands Forum
Dr Henrietta McNeill speaks in The National Security Podcast

Despite new nuclear submarine, India still lags China in naval strength
Dongkeun Lee mentioned in South China Morning Post

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Wall mural at meeting with FARC ex-combatants in Colombia
Wall mural at meeting with FARC ex-combatants in Colombia

Colombia visit to assess at-risk Afro-descendents
ANU Professor Bina D’Costa visited Colombia as a member of the United Nations (UN) Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, part of the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council.
  • Colombia
  • Ending violence against women and girls
  • Africa
  • Racism
  • Human Rights
  • United Nations
Master of International Relations alumna Wenting He. Photograph: Luka Vertessy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.
Master of International Relations alumna Wenting He. Photograph: Luka Vertessy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

Why studying a Master of International Relations was one of the ‘best decisions’ Wenting ever made
Master of International Relations alumna Wenting He wanted to become an expert in Asia-Pacific affairs. Discover how her master's studies prepared her for PhD research.
PhD student Aryana Mohmood
PhD student Aryana Mohmood

Meet Aryana Mohmood, the PhD student investigating Afghan women’s representations and resistance.
PhD scholar and Afghan-Australian journalist Aryana Mohmood wants to change perceptions of diverse Afghan women from victimhood to resistance.
  • Human Rights
Nikolay Murashkin. Photo: Olivia Wenholz
Nikolay Murashkin. Photo: Olivia Wenholz

Expanding our teaching team in Japan
Meet Nikolay Murashkin, our new lecturer who has joined the team in Osaka, Japan, teaching in our dual degree program with Ritsumeikan University.
  • Japan
Kira Atkins BINSS
Kira Atkins BINSS

Kira Atkins - adventures from ANU to Tokyo
Kira Atkins is no stranger to adventure. With a globe-trotting childhood and a passion for international security, she's turned her time at ANU into a series of adventures on campus and in Tokyo.
  • International Security
Prof Helen Sullivan, Dean of ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, delivers her opening remarks
Prof Helen Sullivan, Dean of ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, delivers her opening remarks

Towards a Different IR? ANU Department of IR celebrates 75th anniversary
Responsibilities towards oppressed peoples, the relationship between order and crisis, and a focus on emerging voices and the Asia-Pacific permeated discussions at the ANU IR Department’s 75th anniver
  • International relations
Protesters block access to the parliament building in Jakarta on 22 August to protest a move to reverse the Constitutional Court decision altering eligibility rules for candidates in a key election later this year (Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images)
Protesters block access to the parliament building in Jakarta on 22 August to protest a move to reverse the Constitutional Court decision altering eligibility rules for candidates in a key election later this year (Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images)

Prabowo’s capitulation in Constitutional Court crisis only a partial victory
An apparent win for civil society masks elite political manoeuvring as Indonesia’s local elections loom.
Denghua Zhang

Denghua Zhang's article promoted by Oxford University Press as 'High Impact Political Science and International Relations Research'
Denghua Zhang's article promoted by Oxford University Press as 'High Impact Political Science and International Relations Research'

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Tue, 5 Nov 2024

Community as Movement: Assemblages and Media in Thailand

Department of Political and Social Change Seminar Series
Tue, 5 Nov 2024

The Rise and Fall of Status-Seekers: A View from Historical East Asia

Graduate Research and Development Network on Asian Security (GRADNAS) Seminar Series
Tue, 5 Nov 2024

Minding the mob: Vigilantism and impunity in democratic Indonesia

This event is postponed until further notice. 

 
Tue, 5 Nov 2024

The Influences on British Strategic Decision-Making in the Iraq Intervention 2003 - 2009

PhD Oral Presentation
Thu, 31 Oct 2024

A transformative blue economy? Discourse, hegemony and passive revolution in Oceania

DPA Seminar Series
Thu, 24 Oct 2024

Women and Peace and Security: The Next 25 Years

Department of International Relations 75th Anniversary Public Lecture Series
Wed, 23 Oct 2024

Structural power, feminist insurgency and the (false?) promise of a better future

Professorial Lecture Series 
Tue, 22 Oct 2024

Rituals of release: The meanings and experience of mass pardons in Myanmar

Department of Political and Social Change Seminar Series
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