THE CHINA CHOICE: Why America should Share Power, by Hugh White, Black Inc.,190pp. Reviewed: 11 August 2012 Hugh White is ANU Professor of Strategic Studies and one of the heavyweights of Australian strategic policy discussion, but this book barely touches…
THE AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT AND AUSTRALIA’S ROLE . Edited by Amin Saikal. Melbourne University Press. 210pp. Reviewed: 30 July 2011 Why are Australians fighting, killing and dying in Afghanistan? Surveys of Australian opinion suggest a confusion that crosses party lines, just…
CABLES FROM KABUL The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign. By Sherard Cowper-Coles. Harper Press.312pp. INFERNAL TRIANGLE Conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and The Levant – Eyewitness reports from the September 11 decade. By Paul McGeough. Allen and Unwin. 338pp.…
MONSOON The Indian Ocean and the Battle for Supremacy in the 21st Century by Robert Kaplan Black Inc. 366pp. Reviewed: 18 December, 2010 It’s a difficult time for an American to write a serious review of America’s future place in…
THE DEVIL WE KNOW Dealing with the new Iranian superpower By Robert Baer, Scribe Publications, 277pp Reviewed: 4 April 2009 Barack Obama has declared that the USA is ready to talk to the regime in Iran, after 30 years of…
CHARM OFFENSIVE How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World By Joshua Kurlantzik, Melbourne University Press, 305pp WHAT DOES CHINA THINK? By Mark Leonard, Fourth Estate, 164pp. CHINA’S BRAVE NEW WORLD and other tales for Global Times By Jeffrey Wasserstrom,…
