The IR Department at ANU is home to experts recognised around the world for the significance of their research and teaching, and for their contributions to public engagement and policy debates.

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Our publications

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Sepúlveda on the Spanish Invasion of the Americas: Defending Empire, Debating Las Casas
Translation of the dispute between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de las Casas regarding the justice of Spain's invasion of the Americas, peaking in their famous debate in Valladolid in 1550-51
Hold Your Friends Close Sarah Logan
Drawing on policy documents and elite interviews with policymakers, Dr Logan provides a global overview of counterradicalisation measures and in-depth historical case studies of this in the US and UK.
The Counterinsurgent Imagination A New Intellectual History
This book explains how counter-insurrectionary war eventually took on its late twentieth and early twenty-first century forms.