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Debate Topic
China's Unpredictable Maritime Security Actors
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South China Sea: Jakobson and Glaser are both right
Bill Hayton
2
South China Sea: Does Xi have a grand strategy?
Linda Jakobson
3
Beijing leaves little room for compromise in South China Sea
Michael McDevitt
4
Beijing's South China Sea objective is clear: To extend control
Jingchao Peng
5
Beijing determined to advance sovereignty claims in South China Sea
Bonnie S Glaser
6
China moves from 'restraint' to 'resolve' in South China Sea
Julian Snelder
7
The propaganda war over maritime rights
Linda Jakobson
Debate Topic
The Adolescent Country
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Does provincialism matter?
Sam Roggeveen
2
G20 Brisbane Summit: Australia's adolescence on show
Peter Hartcher
3
Adolescent Australia's road to adulthood
Andrew Catsaras
4
Time for Australia to emerge from its foreign-policy adolescence
Kishore Mahbubani
5
Peter Hartcher's misplaced optimism
Hugh White
6
Australia's provincial reflex
Nick Bryant
Debate Topic
Sea-based nuclear weapons and strategic stability
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Lessons on strategic stability and SSBNs from the Cold War
Sir Mark Stanhope
2
Misinterpreting China's nuclear posture
Wu Riqiang
3
Political stability first, strategic stability second
Ravi Ganesh
4
Strategic stability and SSBNs: Arms control may be the answer
Peter Dombrowski
5
Nuclear weapons at sea in Asia: A tentative concluding assessment
Bruno Tertrais
6
Cyberwar and war in space: Making SSBNs more dangerous
Brendan Thomas-Noone
7
Sea-based nuclear-weapons: Military needs and political consequences
Elbridge Colby
8
Sea-basing threatens India's minimalist nuclear strategy
Yogesh Joshi
9
Why Indian and Pakistani sea-based nukes are so troubling
Andrew Winner
10
Strategic stability and Chinese SSBNs: The need for net assessment
11
Sea-based nukes: A marginal effect on stability
Thomas Mahnken
12
Nuclear weapons and Pakistan's naval strategy
Iskander Rehman
13
INS Arihant revealed
Sam Roggeveen
14
Even noisy submarines can be stabilising
Rod Lyon
15
SSBNs destablising? Not if command and control is maintained
Ravi Ganesh
16
The dangers of SSBN proliferation in Indo-Pacific Asia
Peter Dombrowski
17
SSBNs are unnecessary and destabilising
Wu Riqiang
18
Why sea-based nuclear weapons won't stabilise the Indo-Pacific
Bruno Tertrais
19
Sea-based nuclear weapons in Asia: Stabiliser or menace?
Rory Medcalf
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