Tagged with Asian Politics Security Development

Griffith Asia Institute Featured Publication Purchase the book from Georgetown University Press Edited by Associate Professor Bruce Gilley and Professor Andrew O’Neil China’s rise is changing the dynamics of the international system. Middle Powers and the Rise of China is the first work to examine how the group of states referred to as “middle powers” are responding to China’s […]

Mr Richard Bitzinger, from the S. Rajaratam School in Singapore, joined Griffith Asia Institute this week to present his thoughts on the regional arms race in the South Pacific.  He explained that there is growing antagonisms over territorial and EEZ (exclusive economic zones) claims in the South China Sea, along with an increasingly assertive Chinese […]

A Perspectives:Asia seminar presented by Mr Rory Medcalf, Director, International Security Program, Lowy Institute “Perspectives: Asia” is a seminar series designed to promote public discussion of Australia’s relations with this region. The series is presented by the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University and the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art, Queensland Art Gallery. This podcast is […]

The fallout from the Schapelle Corby case is a reminder that Australia ___cannot have it both ways___ when it comes to human rights. This is the telling observation of Professor Colin Brown (pictured), an adjunct member of the Griffith Asia Institute. “In Indonesia, Australia’s reputation on human rights issues is a decidedly mixed one,” Professor […]

The Director of the Griffith Asia Institute says the decision to grant clemency to convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby signals a good day for relations between Australia and Indonesia. Professor Andrew O’Neil (pictured) believes it is likely a deal was struck between the two countries, which will also factor in Indonesian minors who have been […]

Griffith engineering students Micheal Berry and Robert Bartus are celebrating after achieving success at the 2012 International Capstone Design Contest on Renewable Energy Technology in South Korea. The third year Bachelor of Engineering students, who are specialising in civil engineering, took out the runner-up prize for their development of a methodology to measure the environmental […]

Dr Tim Soutphommasane presents‘Australian Engagement With Asia: A Patriotic Perspective’ Australian engagement with Asia remains a perennial question in the national conversation. At times, engagement has been understood as directly implicating national identity: to be enmeshed in Asia, perhaps as an Australian republic, was to be an emphatic statement of national maturity. Yet more recently, […]