Tagged with Prof Andrew O’Neil

Griffith Asia Institute was proud to host Assistant Professor Michael Cohen last Friday May 17th. GAI’s Director, Professor Andrew O’Neil, and Professor Michael Cohen (University of Southern Denmark) were selected for the 2012 Collaborative Travel Grant Scheme Award for their project titled: Testing the Nuclear Umbrella: Asia and Europe Compared. The project has been awarded […]

Prof. Andrew O’Neil looks at three possible scenarios for Kim Jong-un to use nuclear weapons in his latest article published by The Strategist.   “Recent posts by Tanya Ogilvie-White, Ron Huisken, and Rod Lyon provide stimulating perspectives on North Korea’s evolving strategy and international responses to it. The lion’s share of recent commentary on North […]

“Future challenges to the US—Australia alliance will revolve around tensions inherent in what Glenn Snyder identifies as ‘the alliance security dilemma’. Modern alliances are characterised by the dual fears of abandonment and entrapment–the client state simultaneously seeks to avoid abandonment by its major power protector and entrapment when it’s pressured into making commitments it would […]

Professor Andrew O’Neil discusses the possibility that the recent threats by North Korea could escalate. He takes a look at the capabilities of North Korea, in terms of nuclear weapons. According the Prof. O’Neil if the North Korean’s launch a threatening attack on South Korea or the US it will not be ignored.   You […]

ABC Radio National’s Big Ideas podcasted the discussions on Australia’s relationship with Asia. Professor Andrew O’Neil was one of the panel.   You can listen to the whole podcast via: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/goma-australia-in-the-asian-century/4517268

“The sectarian war in Syria reportedly has claimed more than 60,000 lives and spawned concerns in the Middle East and the West about access to chemical weapons by non-state actors such as al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas. Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles are of immediate concern to Israel, Jordan and the United States, whether in Syrian […]