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Named in honour of internationally renowned scholar Dr Coral Bell AO, the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs is situated at the creative cusp between discipline and area studies and is home to the world’s foremost collection of expertise in the politics and international affairs of Asia and the Pacific.
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Item Open Access 2016 Samoa General Election: Domestic Observation Report(Australian National University, 2017-08) Haley, Nicole; Ng Shiu, Roannie; Baker, Kerryn; Zubrinich, Kerry; Carter, GeorgeOn Friday 4 March 2016, Samoa conducted its 15th general election since independence in 1962. The 2016 general election was particularly significant because of three key constitutional or electoral amendments enacted during the election cycle, namely the Constitutional Amendment Act 2013, the Electoral Amendment Act 2014 and the Electoral Amendment Act 2015. The amendments reconfigured the electoral landscape by introducing a parliamentary gender quota; restricting the conduct of o’o or momoli — presentations of money, food and gifts (typically traditional fine mats and tapa cloth) to a village or villages within a constituency by a candidate to announce their intention to run; and dividing the six dual-member constituencies into 12 single-member constituencies, such that all constituencies are now single-member constituencies. With the approval of the Samoan Cabinet and Office of the Electoral Commissioner (SOEC), academics from the ANU and the National University of Samoa (NUS) observed the elections in partnership with the SOEC and local civil society organisations. The key findings arising from these observations are contained within this report.Item Open Access Ethics of War in a Time of Terror(The Australian National University, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, 2005) Australian National University. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.; Enemark, ChristianThis book is a collection of papers originally presented at a workshop entitled 'After Nine Eleven: Ethics in the Time of Terror' hosted by Monash University on 24 June 2005. The workshop participants included members of the Ethics of War and Peace (EWAP) working group which was inaugurated at the first Oceanic Conference on International Studies in July 2004. EWAP provides a cross-disciplinary forum for scholars and non-academic professionals to exchange and debate ideas on topics including the ethics of armed intervention, the Just War, pacifist ethics, international humanitarian law, ethics in the military profession, and the relationship between law, ethics and politics. The chapters within this book examine themes including 'lesser evils' and 'dirty hands' in the fight against tenorism, the ethics of intelligence gathering, humanitarian intervention, terrorism and the North-South divide, cultural equality as a response to terrorism, human rights and counterterrorism legislation, and the ethics of defending against 'biotenorism'. Contributors include Alex Bel lamy and Richard Devetak (University of Queensland), Baogang He (Deakin University), Christopher Michaelsen (Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe), Jeremy Moses (University of Canterbury), Christian Enemark and Hugh Smith (University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy). This paper represents the authors'views alone. lt has been drawn entirelyfrom open sources, and has no official status or endorsement.Item Open Access A National Asset : Essays Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC)(Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. Australian National University, 2006) Australian National University. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.; Thatcher, Meredith; Ball, DesmondThis volume has been produced to commemorate the SDSC's 40th anniversary. It contains contributions by the Centre's five successive Heads: Dr T.B. Millar (1966-71), Dr Robert O'Neill (1971-82), Professor Desmond Ball (1984-91)'Professor Paul Dibb (1991-2003) and Professor Hugh White (since 2004). lt also includes contributions by Dr Coral Bell, who was present at the creation of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London in the 1950s, came to the Department of lnternational Relations at the Australian National University in 1977 , and has been a Visiting Fellow in SDSC since 1990; and by Professor J.D.B. Miller, Head of the Department of International Relations from 1962 to 1987, who together with Sir John Crawford, then the Director of the Research School of Pacific Studies, conceived the idea of the Centre in early 1966. ln chapter 1, Coral Bell describes the formative years of llSS in London, explores the notion of strategic culture in Australia, and places the development of SDSC in both these international and domestic contexts. The next several chapters are essentially personal reflections. Chapter 2 by Tom Millar and chapter 3 by Bruce Miller describe the foundation of the Centre; chapter 4 by Bob O'Neill and chapter 5 by Des Ball describe its growth to international repute during the 1970s and 1980s; and chapter 6 by Paul Dibb discusses its reorientation after the end of the Cold War. These chapters are replete with stories of university politics, internal SDSC activities, cooperation among people of very different social and political values, and conflicts between others, as well as the Centre's public achievements. Finally, in chapter 7, Hugh White discusses the place of academic strategic and defence studies, and more particularly the Centre, in Australia's current circumstances, and projects the future directions for SDSC.Item Open Access Basic documents on the constitutional arrangements for the Bougainville Referendum(ANU Data Commons, The Australian National University, 2019) Regan, AnthonyThe constitution of Papua New Guinea reflects the provisions of the Bougainville Peace Agreement by providing that a referendum for Bougainvilleans on the future political status of Bougainville must be held, within the five year ‘window’, from June 2015 to June 2020. One option in the referendum must be a ‘separate independence’ for Bougainville. In 2016, the PNG national government and the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) jointly agreed on a ‘target’ date for the referendum of June 2019. This collection comprises background documents detailing the constitution of Papua New Guinea and the Bougainville Peace Agreement and their provisions for a referendum.Item Open Access A Year in Review: Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs(Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific, The Australian National University) Australian National University. Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific AffairsThe achievements of the Bell School colleagues, many of which are captured in this year in review.Item Embargo Inside the Coral Bell School newsletter(Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific, The Australian National University) Australian National University. Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific AffairsThe Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs continues to set the conversation on the big policy issues facing not only Australia but the Asia Pacific more broadly.Item Embargo Policing Cyberthreats: Regulating Exceptional Police Actions(ANU National Security College) Gastineau, AdamItem Open Access Ethics in the Time of Anthrax: Biological Threat Assessment in the United States(Australian National University, 2006) Enemark, ChristianItem Open Access National Security versus Civil Liberties: Rights-Based Objections to the Idea of Balance(Australian National University, 2006) Michaelsen, ChristopherItem Open Access SDSC at 40: History, Policy and Scholarship(Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. Australian National University, 2006) White, HughItem Open Access Reflections on the SDSC's Middle Decades(Australian National University, 2006) Ball, DesmondItem Open Access Strategic Thought and Security Preoccupations in Australia(Australian National University, 2006) Bell, CoralItem Open Access Russia and Europe: National Identity, National Interest, Pragmatism, or Delusions of Empire?(Canberra, ACT: The Australian National University, 2006) Miller, RobertRussian foreign policy has undergone a gradual, if sometimes sporadic, evolution from the late Soviet period, through the collapse of the USSR and communism, five years of unrequited accommodation with the West and its putative model of free-market capitalism and liberal democracy, to an increasing realisation that Russian national interests required a more assertive stance vis- Washington's perceived unilateralist hegemony. If the Soviet Union and its empire were ostensibly driven by Marxist-Leninist ideology, the Russian Federation explicitly eschewed such motivation, relying instead on an emergent conception of Russian national identity which sometimes bordered on classical imperialism. Throughout the 1990s, Russia had neither the strength nor the resources to implement such a project, but it became increasingly clear under President Vladimir V. Putin and the military and security forces behind him that the revival of Russia as a major international player with its own dominant sphere of influence was the goal. US President George W. Bush's post-11 September war on terrorism provided an opportunity for Putin to pursue this goal in concert with, rather than in opposition to, Washington. However, the sudden jump in petroleum and natural gas revenues, the war in Iraq which largely produced it, and the evident fragmentation of Western unity provided Putin with opportunities to play Washington off against the European Union and to leverage Russia's newly found strategic position against both China and the US to pursue Russia's great power identity and interests, with a primary focus on Europe.Item Open Access The challenge of United Nations reform(Canberra, ACT: Dept. of International Relations, The Australian National University) Reus-Smith, Christian; Hanson, Marianne; Charlesworth, Hilary; Maley, WilliamThe international community founded the United Nations in 1945 as the centrepiece of an ambitious institutional strategy to prevent the recurrence of world war, global depression, and massive humanitarian crises, the most tragic of which had been the Holocaust. Sixty years later the world is again confronting multiple governance challenges, from combating transnational terrorism while maintaining existing constraints on the use of force to stabilising the world economy while alleviating endemic poverty and political alienation. None of these challenges can be met through unilateral or bilateral means alone, and the existing architecture of multilateral institutions is in serious need of reform. A renaissance in multilateral institutions will not proceed far, however, unless the central problem of reforming the United Nations is confronted. In this Keynote, a number of leading scholars consider three crucial aspects of UN reform: Security Council reform, renovation of the UN human rights system, and the role of the UN in responding to broader humanitarian crises.Item Open Access Can we measure the influence of social movements?(Canberra, ACT: Political Science, Research School of Social Science, The Australian National University) Grey, SandraFor three decades new social movements have undergone scrutiny from political scientists with much written about why social movements exist and how they attract members. However little has been done on the influence of these mass mobilisations. In this paper I investigate normative and empirical statements about social movements in order to develop a way to measure the influence of these phenomenon. Current social movement literature provides few tools that can be used to measure social movement influence. I will argue that the influence of mass mobilisations on the political realm can be measured using discourse analysis techniques and by looking to public policy literature. I will then test this methodology by looking at the influence of the New Zealand women’s movement on debates surrounding child care and unpaid work.Item Open Access Referendums on ‘national’ self determination: Québec, Scotland, Ukraine and Puerto Rico(Canberra, ACT: Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, 2003) LeDuc, LarryNot available