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  • 10 Sep 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Terrorism
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Intelligence and security

    The US needs to take the fight in Syria more seriously and Australian involvement will help

    Jim Molan
  • 7 Sep 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Syria
    • Migration

    Forget Greece and the Euro: Migration is the real challenge for Europe - Part I

    Daniel Woker
  • 4 Sep 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Terrorism

    The Australian Government needs to go back to basics on ISIS and radicalisation

    Hussain Nadim
  • 2 Sep 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Syria
    • Migration

    Syrian refugees and the Gulf states' lack of charity

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 31 Aug 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Terrorism
    • Australian Perspective
    • Intelligence and security

    Will the RAAF be assisting the Syrian Army?

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 21 Aug 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Diplomacy
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • International Relations

    To combat ISIS, refocus international attention on Assad and revive the Geneva process

    Rima Flihan
  • 19 Aug 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Terrorism

    While the West panics about ISIS, the Middle East is fracturing

    Lydia Khalil
  • 14 Aug 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Diplomacy
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • Australian Perspective
    • International Relations
    • Intelligence and security
    • Foreign Policy

    Iran nuclear deal opens door for Syria diplomacy

    Bob Bowker
  • 29 Jul 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Terrorism
    • Emerging Threats

    Turkey-ISIS: Safe zones open up new problems

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 22 Jul 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Terrorism
    • Emerging Threats

    Is the war on ISIS coming home to Turkey?

    Lauren Williams
  • 16 Jul 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Terrorism
    • Emerging Threats
    • Australian Perspective
    • Intelligence and security

    Stripping citizenship: Information gaps and unforeseen consequences

    David Wells
  • 15 Jul 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Diplomacy
    • Syria
    • Australian Perspective
    • International Relations
    • Foreign Policy
    • Migration

    Syria: World dithers as new refugee crisis looms

    Bob Bowker
  • 7 Jul 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • Emerging Threats
    • Arab Uprisings

    Kuwait's disenfranchisement of Bidun leads to growing ISIS threat

    Anneliese Mcauliffe
  • 3 Jul 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • Emerging Threats
    • Australian Perspective
    • Arab Uprisings
    • Intelligence and security

    Is Egypt falling into an Islamist insurrection?

    Bob Bowker
  • 30 Jun 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism

    Rumours of a Turkish invasion of northern Syria

    Lauren Williams
  • 19 May 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • Australian Perspective
    • Arab Uprisings
    • Intelligence and security

    Assad's regime is brittle, and it may fall fast

    Bob Bowker
  • 26 Mar 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • Australian Perspective
    • Arab Uprisings
    • Intelligence and security

    Just how absurd is the Middle East at the moment?

    Anthony Bubalo
  • 17 Mar 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • Arab Uprisings

    The shrinking space for piety without violence

    Vanessa Newby
  • 12 Mar 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • Arab Uprisings

    The worrying parallels between the Khmer Rouge and ISIS

    Elliot Brennan
  • 9 Mar 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Terrorism
    • Australian Perspective
    • Arab Uprisings
    • Intelligence and security
    • Foreign Policy

    Applying the right lessons to Iraq

    Jim Molan
  • 6 Mar 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • Arab Uprisings

    How does the Arab world view ISIS?

    Vanessa Newby
  • 4 Mar 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • Emerging Threats
    • Australian Perspective
    • Arab Uprisings
    • Intelligence and security

    Can Lebanon's Future Movement provide a moderate Sunni alternative?

    Lauren Williams
  • 26 Feb 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • Australian Perspective
    • Intelligence and security

    ISIS is the least of Afghanistan's problems

    Susanne Schmeidl
  • 26 Feb 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • Emerging Threats
    • Asia Pacific Security

    What is New Zealand's mission in Iraq?

    Anna Powles
  • 20 Feb 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Arab Uprisings

    Balancing act: Jordan's fight against ISIS

    Vanessa Newby
  • 6 Feb 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Regional relationships
    • Arab Uprisings
    • Asia and the Middle East

    Tough choices for Beijing following execution of Chinese ISIS militants

    Simone van Nieuwenhuizen
  • 5 Feb 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Syria
    • Australian Perspective
    • Arab Uprisings

    Arab Spring lives on as protests give way to new forms of activism

    Marty Harris
  • 29 Jan 2015
    • Syria
    • Arab Uprisings

    Death and decorum: Japan awaits word of its ISIS hostages

    Christopher Pokarier
  • 19 Nov 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism

    ISIS beheadings are a grotesque media strategy

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 11 Nov 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism

    Kuwait steers careful sectarian course in fight against ISIS

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 27 Oct 2014
    • Syria

    Turkey's reluctant role in the battle for Kobane

    Sarah Graham
  • 23 Oct 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria

    What's so strategic about Kobane?

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 17 Oct 2014
    • Syria

    ISIS and Iraq's chemical weapons

    Rod Barton
  • 15 Oct 2014
    • Syria

    Syria: What is a moderate rebel?

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 3 Oct 2014
    • Syria

    Xinjiang and terrorism (part 2): The new threat of ISIS

    Michael Clarke
  • 26 Sep 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism
    • Emerging Threats
    • Australian Perspective
    • Arab Uprisings
    • Intelligence and security
    • Foreign Policy

    Terrorism at home: The law cannot save us

    Cynthia Banham
  • 22 Sep 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Syria
    • Arab Uprisings

    Turkey: Cautious partner in battle against ISIS

    Sarah Graham
  • 22 Sep 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism

    The long war in Iraq: A quarter-century and counting

  • 9 Sep 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Terrorism

    America's anti-IS coalition: Core, non-core and unmentionable

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 9 Sep 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Syria
    • Arab Uprisings

    Obama and ISIS: Snowden leaks reveal tough choices

    James Bowen
  • 22 Aug 2014
    • Syria

    The Islamic State's media logic

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 8 Jul 2014
    • Syria

    Baghdadi's caliphate is a mirage, but a damaging one

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 12 May 2014
    • Syria

    Syria: Implications of the retreat from Homs

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 22 Apr 2014
    • Syria

    Syria: There's method in Assad's election madness

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 17 Mar 2014
    • Syria

    Year four of Syria's civil war: Elections and more fighting

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 24 Feb 2014
    • Syria

    Lebanon: Second front in the Syria war

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 18 Feb 2014
    • Syria

    Syria: Here endeth diplomacy

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 6 Feb 2014
    • Syria

    Splitters: Syria's Pythonesque Islamist opposition

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 3 Feb 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Diplomacy
    • Syria
    • International Relations
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • United Nations

    Syria and the Geneva conference

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 20 Jan 2014
    • Syria

    Geneva II: If we get progress on humanitarian issues, it'll be worth it

    Rodger Shanahan
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