Security Challenges is the only peer-reviewed journal on future security issues published in Australia.
The journal reaches a wide audience of government, corporate and academic experts and our members. It is a vehicle for innovative thinking about future challenges to the security (broadly defined) of Australia and the region.
2019
Vol 15, No 1
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ARTICLES
Joyobroto Sanyal
Shaping Australian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Thoughts on a Reflective Framework of Analysis
Thomas Wilkins
Re-assessing Australia’s Intra-alliance Bargaining Power in the Age of Trump
Bates Gill and Adam Ni
China’s Sweeping Military Reforms: Implications for Australia
Nell Bennett
One Man's Radical: The Radicalisation Debate and Australian Counterterrorism Policy
Martin White
The Changing Operational Security Landscape for Sensitive National Capabilities
Book Reviews
Daniel Baldino
Australia’s First Spies: The Remarkable Story of Australia's Intelligence Operations, 1901-45
Andrew Davies
Global Defense Procurement and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
Greg Raymond
Handbook on the United States in Asia: Managing Hegemonic Decline, Retaining Influence in the Trump Era
Elizabeth Buchanan
Is Non-Western Democracy Possible? A Russian Perspective
2018 Issues
Vol 14, No. 2 - Special Issue: Celebrating and Interrogating Women and National Security
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Comments
Susan Harris Rimmer and Sue Thompson
Celebrating and Interrogating Women and National Security
The Hon. Marise Payne
Speech by Defence Minister, 4 April 2017
The Hon. Penny Wong
Speech by Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, 4 April 2017
Air Chief Marshal M.D. Binskin
Speech by Chief of the Defence Force, 5 April 2017
Lee Hayward
Increasing the Number of Senior Women in the Australian Army
Valerie M. Hudson
Trust the Women as I Have Done: An American's Reflection on Australia and WPS
Articles
Sofia Patel and Jacqueline Westermann
Women and Islamic-State Terrorism: An Assessment of How Gender Perspectives are Integrated in Countering Violent Extremism Policy and Practices
Anuradha Mundkur and Laura J. Shepherd
Civil Society Participation in Women, Peace and Security Governance: Insights from Australia
Pip Henty and Beth Eggleston
Mothers, Mercenaries and Mediators: Women Providing Answers to the Questions We Forgot to Ask
Susan Hutchinson
Leading the Operationalisation of WPS
Book Reviews
Elise Stephenson
Beyond the Band of Brothers by Megan Mackenzie
Olivera Simić
The Women in Blue Helmets by Lesley Pruitt
Lizzy Ambler
Gender, UN Peacebuilding, and the Politics of Space by Laura Shepherd
Vol 14, No. 1 - Special Issue: Australian Foreign Policy White Paper 2017
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Articles
Allan Gyngell
The Uncertainty Principle: The 2017 Australian Foreign Policy White Paper in Historical Context
Chengxin Pan
Identity Politics and the Poverty of Diplomacy: China in Australia’s 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper
Tomohiko Satake
Australia’s New Foreign Policy White Paper: A View from Japan
Huong Le Thu
Australia and ASEAN: Together for the Sake of a New Multipolar World Order
Rory Medcalf
Australia’s Foreign Policy White Paper: Navigating Uncertainty in the Indo-Pacific
Vaughan Grant
Critical Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships: When is the Responsibility for Leadership Exchanged?
Amy Johnson, Celeste Lawson and Kate Ames
“Use your common sense, don’t be an idiot”: Social Media Security Attitudes amongst Partners of Australian Defence Force Personnel
Book Reviews
Andrew Carr
Security Strategies of Middle Powers in the Asia Pacific
Chris Farnham
Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942
Greg Raymond
Russia and China: A Political Marriage of Convenience—Stable and Successful
2017 Issues
Vol 13 No. 2
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ARTICLES
Dougal Robinson
Congressional Support for Australia Has Paid Dividends with the Trump Administration
Andrew Tan
Singapore’s Survival and its China Challenge
Denghua Zhang
China’s Diplomacy in the Pacific: Interests, Means and Implications
BOOK REVIEWS
All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power
by Thomas J. Wright
Reviewed by Andrew Carr
Pacific Power? Australia’s Strategy in the Pacific Islands by Joanne Wallis
Reviewed by Stewart Firth
Global Allies: Comparing US Alliances in the 21st Century by Michael Wesley
Reviewed by Iain Henry
VOL 13 No. 1
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ARTICLES
Bert Chapman
US Marine Corps Battalion Deployment to Australia: Potential Strategic Implications
John Blaxland
Strategic Balancing Act: Australia’s approach to Managing China, the USA and Regional Security Priorities
Andrew Zammit
The Role of Virtual Planners in the 2015 Anzac Day Terror Plot
Aaron P. Jackson
Innovation within the Paradigm: The evolution of the Australian Defence Force’s Joint Operational Art
BOOK REVIEWS
Australia’s Northern Shield by Bruce Hunt
Reviewed by James Batley
A Great Place to Have a War by Joshua Kurlantzick
Reviewed by Greg Raymond
Independent Ally by Shannon Tow
Reviewed by Andrew Carr
2016 Issues
VOL 12 No. 3 The Pivot - 5 Years On
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Allan Behm
The ‘Pivot’: A Twentieth Century Solution to a Twenty-First Century Problem?
Timothy J. Blizzard
The PLA, A2/AD and the ADF: Lessons for Future Maritime Strategy
H. D. P. Envall
Japan’s ‘Pivot’ Perspective: Reassurance, Restructuring, and the Rebalance
See Seng Tan
Facilitating the US Rebalance: Challenges and Prospects for Singapore as America’s Security Partner
Feng Zhang
Challenge Accepted: China’s Response to the US Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific
VOL 12 No. 2 Social Media in the Modern Security Environment
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Graeme Dobell
Australia’s Defence White Papers by the Numbers
Levi J. West
#jihad: Understanding Social Media as a Weapon
Andy Ruddock
A Fragmented Audience: How to Remain on Target
Sean Childs
Soldier Morale: Defending a Core Military Capability
Sharyn Rundle-Thiele and Renata Anibaldi
Countering Violent Extremism: From Defence to Attack
Jason Logue
The Australian Defence Force’s Embrace of [Un]Social Media
VOL 12 No. 1 Security Challenges Special Edition 2016 Defence White Paper
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Andrew Carr
The Politics of the 2016 Defence White Paper
Michael Wesley
Australian Grand Strategy and the 2016 Defence White Paper
Iain Henry
The 2016 Defence White Paper’s: Assessment of Australia’s Strategic Environment
Robert Ayson
Discovering Australia’s Defence Strategy
Peter Jennings
The 2016 Defence White Paper and the ANZUS Alliance
Mark Thomson
Funding and Delivering the 2016 Defence White Paper
Michael Clifford
The 2016 Defence White Paper—The Land Perspective
John Blackburn
2016 Defence White Paper—The Future of Aerospace forces
Lee Cordner
The Future of Maritime Forces in an Integrated Australian Defence Force
Tim Scully
Cyber Security and the 2016 Defence White Paper
Richard Brabin-Smith
Defence White Paper 2016: Defence Science and Innovation
Graeme Dunk
Defence Industry Policy 2016: Well Intentioned—But Conflicted
Daniel Baldino
An Exercise in Management: Defence Engagement in the Indo-Pacific
Evan Laksmana
Indonesia in Australia’s 2016 Defence White Paper
John Lee
China in Australia’s 2016 Defence White Paper
Amy King
Japan in Australia’s 2016 Defence White Paper
Ian Hall
India in Australia’s 2016 Defence White Paper
Joanne Wallis
The South Pacific in the 2016 Defence White Paper: Anxiety, Ambivalence and Ambiguity
Jay Vlazlovski and Duncan Koenig
From Whiteboard to White Paper: Student Perspectives on the 2016 Australian Defence White Paper
2015 Issues
VOL 11 No. 2 Security Challenges Download complete issue
Kristen Bell
Looking Outward: Enhancing Australia’s Deradicalisation and Disengagement Programs
Mark Beeson and Jeffrey D. Wilson
Coming to Terms with China: Managing Complications in the Sino-Australian Economic Relationship
Natalie Sambhi
Jokowi’s ‘Global Maritime Axis’: Smooth Sailing or Rocky Seas Ahead?
COMMENT
Sam Bateman
Some Thoughts on Australia and the Freedoms of Navigation
Vol 11 No. 1 Security Challenges Download complete issue
SPECIAL—MEDIA AND TRANSPARENCY IN AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE POLICY
Kevin Foster
Going Dutch or Candidly Canadian? What the ADF Might Learn from its Allies’ Media Operations Practices in Afghanistan
Sam Roggeveen
New Media and Australia’s National Security Debate
James Brown
A Disconnect between Policy and Practice: Defence Transparency in Australia
COMMENT
David Brewster
The Australia–India Framework for Security Cooperation: Another Step Towards an Indo-Pacific Security Partnership
ARTICLES
Euan Graham
Divining the Fluid Element: From Cooperation to Conflict in Japan-China Maritime Relations
Shandon Harris-Hogan
Understanding the Logic: An Analysis of Jihadist Targeting and Tactics in Western Countries from 2000 to mid-2012
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