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Latest by Mike: Global

Postwar Ukraine will pose the hardest problems

13 March 2023 Mike Scrafton

Past experience suggests that the postwar outcome in Ukraine could be a destabilised and failing state. Win, lose or stalemate, the postwar environment in Ukraine is likely to pose significant challenges for the EU and NATO.

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America’s values on show in Jerusalem

7 February 2023

Tanks for Ukraine won’t bring war-ending negotiations any closer

27 January 2023

Post-liberal, post-democratic and authoritarian. Is that America’s future?

21 December 2022

After 2024 America could be a less reliable ally than under Trump

24 November 2022

US National Security Strategy: dogma for a misconceived crusade

18 October 2022

America’s proposed Taiwan Policy Act could be a game-changing act of provocation

20 September 2022

Would Australian defence of Taiwan amount to the crime of aggression?

16 August 2022

Latest by Mike: Australian Focus

Will Australia always follow the innocent nation into war?

25 March 2023 Online editor

US foreign policy is underpinned by ideational myths, like that of the ‘innocent nation’, which requires a succession of ‘immoral’ enemies to sustain it. Does Australia fully comprehend the potential implications of the American sense of righteousness and mission?

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All over bar the shouting: the inevitability of a submarine farce

1 March 2023

Time to talk about time and the AUKUS submarines

18 February 2023

An AUKUS ménage à trois

8 February 2023

All pathways to AUKUS submarines sub-optimal

14 January 2023

B-21s for Australia? Not to defend against a Chinese base in Australia’s nearer region

9 January 2023

America’s shiny submarine lure reels in Australia’s sovereignty

10 December 2022

US National Defence Strategy reveals Australia’s nuclear deterrence role

9 November 2022

Most read this week

  • Australia’s foreign policy: Resurgent realism or the survival of multilateralism? 5 July 2020
  • Will Australia always follow the innocent nation into war? 25 March 2023
  • Post-liberal, post-democratic and authoritarian. Is that America’s future? 21 December 2022
  • The warning that wasn’t: Robert Gottliebsen’s warning to the Australian nation on the Future Submarines 19 February 2020
  • ASPI’s guide to submarines leaves the biggest strategic questions unanswered 9 November 2020
  • No longer a middle power: Australia’s strategy in the 21st century (Andrew Carr) 3 August 2020

Most read in the last year

  • An American theocracy: the advance of Christian nationalism 26 January 2021
  • Australia’s foreign policy: Resurgent realism or the survival of multilateralism? 5 July 2020
  • What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS) 29 December 2020
  • America’s proposed Taiwan Policy Act could be a game-changing act of provocation 20 September 2022
  • The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth 8 February 2021
  • National Cyber Power Index 2020: which is the world’s most powerful cyber nation? (Belfer Center) 12 September 2020

Latest by Mike: Climate Crisis

Facing “Hothouse Earth”, will governments continue half-a-century of inaction?

7 August 2022

About Mike Scrafton

Mike Scrafton is a regularly-published writer on Australian and international affairs. Read more about Mike here.

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Mike’s writing is not published with his permission on any profit-making websites, blogs or forums associated with profit-making business entities. Mike has no current association with any commercial organisation. He is a completely independent writer, derives no income from his writing, and does not endorse the products or services of any business entity.

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