Greg Austin, ‘China’s Public Order Crisis and Its Strategic Implications’, IR Working Paper 1994/10, Canberra: Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and
Transitions in order are not only products of transitions in power, but also products of transitions in shared ideas. This seminar examines the role of shared ideas through the lens of China’s involvement in shaping the transition to a post-World War II economic order at Bretton Woods. Drawing on new Chinese-language archival materials, the seminar focuses on how and with what success China sought to shape global ideas about three interlocking strands of thinking at Bretton Woods: development, the role of the state in the domestic economy, and managed multilateralism.
Amid Beijing's firm and hardline resolve to employ force if necessary, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing_Wen remained unfazed. Her response rejected China's one country, two systems approach...
Benjamin Zala, ‘Taking the Potential Costs of the Quad Seriously’, in Andrew Carr, ed., Debating the Quad, Centre of Gravity series 39, Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU,