Reading Room
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Reading Room: Twitter and Jihad
By reviewer Nava NuraniyahHow did terrorists get so tech-savvy? What is it about the Islamic State’s social media communication that managed to attract thousands of fighters from around the world? This edited volume by Maggioni and Magri is one of the earliest attempts...
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Reading Room: Trading Places
By reviewer Dr Giovanni Di LietoDoes Asia dominate Australia’s economic future? Is China just for big business? Why are South Koreans eating so much Aussie beef? Why do the Danes love all things Tasmanian? Are Canadians just like Australians? These are just a sample of the...
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Reading Room: Children’s Rights
By reviewer Associate Professor Katrina Lee-KooFrom a refugee child to a teenage suicide bomber to Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, children play multiple roles in international affairs. This raises questions of children’s rights, capacity and agency. The question of whether children...
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Reading Room: The Gatekeepers of Australian Foreign Policy
By reviewer Mike FogartyAustralian diplomacy is now a fertile field with an institutional history spanning more than 80 years. Authors no longer plough a lonely furrow. As the title infers, the work is a sweeping survey of Australia’s conduct of international relations...
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Reading Room: Abe’s Remarkable Restoration
By reviewer Dr H. D. P. (David) EnvallIn December 2012, Shinzō Abe achieved perhaps the most remarkable comeback of post-war Japanese politics by becoming the Japanese prime minister for a second time. Not since Shigeru Yoshida in 1948 has a Japanese politician managed such a feat....
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Reading Room: Humanitarian Intervention
By reviewer Dr Eglantine StauntonDespite the international community’s pledge to ‘never again’ allow mass atrocities like the Rwandan genocide to be repeated, the constant flow of news coming from countries such as Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Eritrea, Iraq, Sudan, Syria and Yemen...
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Reading Room: Navigating the New International Disorder
By reviewer Allan Gyngell AO FAIIASince 1950 the Australian Institute of International Affairs has been publishing what its first editors, Gordon Greenwood and Norman Harper, described as "a series of volumes …in which at regular intervals Australian scholars would attempt to...
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Reading Room: Australian Soldiers in Asia-Pacific in World War II
By reviewer Dr Sue ThompsonLachlan Grant has written an interesting history of the experiences of Australian troops across Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War and their many varied interactions with the people and cultures of that region. He tells the story...
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Reading Room: China’s Domestic Transformation
By reviewer Leyang WangThe latest book in the ANU’s longstanding China Update series concentrates on the structural changes within China’s ‘new normal’ model, given the fact that China has been experiencing a substantial slowdown in its economic growth. Each chapter...
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Reading Room: Middle Powers in World Trade Diplomacy
By reviewer Pradeep S MehtaIn focusing on India, South Africa and the Doha Development Agenda, Charalampos Efstathopoulos has produced an insightful book that goes beyond the traditional understanding of the approaches of developed and developing countries in trade...