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Collected Essays

Leveraging Scholarship to Enhance Policy

The Emerging Voices Series: Changing the Narrative, what does a whole-of-society approach to defence entail?

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[October 2026] The Increasing Threats to Our Society and Way of Life For a 30-year-old making financial plans for their...

The Emerging Voices Series: From Expertise to Effect, The Next Step for Detachment 201

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[October 2026] From Expertise to Effect: The Next Step for Detachment 201 The U.S. Army increasingly relies on technologies whose...

Emerging Voices Series: Securing the Undersea Domain in an Era of Great-Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific

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[August 2026] Securing the Undersea Domain in an Era of Great-Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific Over the past decade, the...

Emerging Voices Series: Securing CUI in the New Age of Geopolitical Competition

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[August 2026] Securing Critical Undersea Infrastructure in the New Age of Geopolitical Competition ‘Connection is everything’, then Secretary of State...

Emerging Voices Series: Power Maximisation in the Indo-Pacific

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[August 2026] Power Maximisation in the Indo-Pacific: China’s Maritime Assertiveness in the South China Sea The recent incursion of a...

Emerging Voices Series: The Importance of Revisiting Deterrence in the Space Domain

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[July 2026] The Importance of Revisiting Deterrence in the Space Domain The UK’s long awaited Defence Investment Plan (DIP), published...

Emerging Voices Series: Why AUKUS Must Win the Information Contest in Southeast Asia

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[June 2026] Last year, the second Trump administration backed AUKUS “full steam ahead”. While that secures the pact for now,...

Emerging Voices Series: Agri-Food Systems as Critical Infrastructure

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[May 2026] Agri-Food Systems as Critical Infrastructure: Rethinking National Resilience and Security National security is often framed in terms of...

Emerging Voices Series: Rethinking Artificial Intelligence at the Strategic Frontier

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[May 2026] An Interaction-Centered Approach to Trustworthy Decision-Making in Defense and National Security Artificial intelligence (AI) as a strategic frontier...

Emerging Voices Series: For a Capability-Based Perspective on Economic Security

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[May 2026] There is an emerging direction on the horizon for economic security policies, and Phoenix is on the front...

Emerging Voices Series: Subnational Diplomacy in a Fragmenting World

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[May 2026] Global governance faces a paradox. Tricky challenges that urgently require coordinated international responses – pandemics, climate change, rapid...

The Strategic Imperative of Critical Minerals in AUKUS

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[July 2025] This article, "The Strategic Imperative of Critical Minerals in AUKUS" by Ansel Bayly & Dr Sarah Tzinieris, was...

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