August, 2018
The vagaries of US ‘commitment’
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2018/08/05/2003697989
June, 2018
Taipei Times
Taiwan must prepare for blockade
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2018/06/26/2003695544
Referred to in the following article http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2018/05/27/2003693786/1
May, 2018
Taipei Times
What war would mean for Taiwan
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2018/05/03/2003692412/4
April, 2018
E-International Relations
Irredentism, Nationalism and a Looming Asia-Pacific War
http://www.e-ir.info/2018/04/13/irredentism-nationalism-and-a-looming-asia-pacific-war/
Taipei Times
Thinking through the US’ ‘closer ties’
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2018/04/08/2003690895
February, 2018
Taipei Times
China following West’s example
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2018/02/24/2003688126
September, 2017
May, 2017
The Australian Independent Media Network
What’s really going on?: The reasons why the US and North Korea won’t go to war over the Korean Peninsula
(modified for an Australian audience)
https://theaimn.com/whats-really-going-reasons-us-north-korea-wont-go-war-korean-peninsula/
E-International Relations
Winning Hostilities Without War: United States – North Korea Machinations
Federation University: Cultural Enquiry and Research Group
Presentation: ‘The Dragon is Swimming’: How China is following the West’s ‘model of expansionism’ in the South China Sea
Powerpoint:
January, 2017
My latest article from December last year has been published in the Australian Herald http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/249922993
December, 2016
http://theaimn.com/war-china-ascending-powers-expansionism-use-force/
(Modified for an Australian audience)
November, 2016
International Relations
War with China: Ascending Powers, Expansionism and the Use-of-Force
http://www.e-ir.info/2016/11/22/war-with-china-ascending-powers-expansionism-and-the-use-of-force/
July, 2016
Australian Independent Media Network
War in a public place: The Bastille Day attack, the strategy and tactics of Insurgencies
http://theaimn.com/war-public-place-bastille-day-attack-strategy-tactics-insurgencies/
Blog comment re: Turkey
Australian Independent Media Network
Where fools rush in: The Leasing of the Port of Darwin and the Rise of China
http://theaimn.com/?s=where+fools+rush+in
E-International Relations
Beyond the Asia-Pacific: China’s Next Geo-Strategic ‘Stepping Stone’
http://www.e-ir.info/2016/06/04/beyond-the-asia-pacific-chinas-next-geo-strategic-stepping-stone/
Feb, 2016
The Australian Independent Media Network
The Road to Perdition: Australia and the Neo-conservative Agenda
http://theaimn.com/the-road-to-perdition-australia-and-the-neoconservative-agenda/
Dec, 2015
E-International Relations
The Impact of Industrial Revolutions: China’s Rise and the Decline of Japan
The Australian Independent Media Network
‘Heads should roll’: An Historical Perspective on Terrorism for the Abbott Neoconservative Goverment
E-International Relations
‘Oil Then, Water Now’: Another Reason for War in the 21st Century?
E-International Relations
The Asia-Pacific Scramble and a ‘Larger Australia’
http://www.e-ir.info/2015/03/30/the-asia-pacific-scramble-and-a-larger-australia/
The Australian Independent Media Network
Double Standards: The West and Terrorism
http://theaimn.com/double-standards-west-terrorism
2014
E-International Relations
Airpower Hopes: The West, Versus the Islamic State, and the Evolution of Warfare
The Australian Independent Media Network
http://theaimn.com/airpower-hopes-the-west-verses-the-islamic-state-and-the-evolution-of-warfare/
The International Relations and Security Network (Zurich)
The Sovereign Nation-State as a Contributor to Terrorism
http://isnblog.ethz.ch/terrorism-technology/the-sovereign-nation-state-as-a-contributor-to-terrorism
E-International Relations
The Sovereign Nation-State as a Contributor to Terrorism
http://www.e-ir.info/2014/10/25/the-sovereign-nation-state-as-a-contributor-to-terrorism/
E-International Relations
Australia-China and the Rise of Pax-Sino: Where to now?
http://www.e-ir.info/2014/09/21/australia-china-and-the-rise-of-pax-sino-where-to-now/
The Australian Independent Media Network
Australia-China and the Rise of Pax-Sino: Where to now?
http://theaimn.com/australia-china-rise-pax-sino-now/#comment-134284
But will China invade Australia?
http://theaimn.com/will-china-invade-australia/#comment-134304
Australia beckons India: more antagonism by the Abbott government toward China
http://theaimn.com/australia-beckons-india-antagonism-abbott-government-toward-china/
Greater Australia-Japan Military Ties: another dangerous step in the coming age of pax-Sino
What a State demands, what a citizen give and what Abbott and Hockey simply don’t understand
http://theaimn.com/state-demands-citizen-gives-abbott-hockey-simply-dont-understand/#comment-134309
People cost ‘too much’: the Abbott Government and Neo-liberalism
http://theaimn.com/people-cost-too-much-the-abbot-government-and-neoliberalism/#comment-134313
The Indonesia Spy scandal and Australia’s future in the region
http://theaimn.com/the-indonesia-spy-scandal-and-the-future-for-australia/
2013
The Courier, Issues Hidden Beneath the Surface of Diplomacy, ‘Opinion,’ April 13
Click the scanned newspaper image for a larger ‘readable ‘copy or download the article here: scanned newspaper copy here or download the article here: Issues Hidden Beneath the Surface of Diplomacy
2013
The Courier, Action Needed on the UNSC, ‘Opinion,’ May 2
Click the scanned newspaper image for a larger readable copy or download the article here: scanned newspaper copy here or download the article here: Action Needed from the UNSC
PhD:
2011 Why winning a war is no longer necessary: Modern warfare and the United States of America through the prism of the wars of Vietnam and Iraq.
View my thesis at Federation University (University of Ballarat) and Australian Digital Theses here:
http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:4502
View my thesis online at Academia.com here:
http://www.academia.edu/2446146
And my peer-reviewed writing at https://federation-au.academia.edu/StrobeDriver
