Latest Publications
Australia's Uranium Trade: The Domestic and Foreign Policy Challanges of a Contentious Export: by Michael Clarke, Griffith University, Australia; Stephan Fruhling, Australian National University, Australia and Andrew O'Neil, Griffith Asia Institute, Australia
Australia's Uranium Trade explores why the export of uranium remains a highly controversial issue in Australia and how this affects Australia's engagement with the strategic, regime and market realms of international nuclear affairs. The book focuses on the key challenges facing Australian policy makers in a twenty-first century context where civilian nuclear energy consumption is expanding significantly while at the same time the international nuclear nonproliferation regime is subject to increasing, and unprecedented, pressures. By focusing on Australia as a prominent case study, the book is concerned with how a traditionally strong supporter of the international nuclear nonproliferation regime is attempting to recalibrate its interest in maximizing the economic and diplomatic benefits of increased uranium exports during a period of flux in the strategic, regime and market realms of nuclear affairs. Australia's Uranium Trade provides broader lessons for how – indeed whether – nuclear suppliers worldwide are adapting to the changing nuclear environment internationally. Book Details.
Latest Research Grants
Two Griffith Asia Institute Research Fellows have been successful in receiving an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for funding commencing in 2012. Each award is worth $375,00 over three years. Grants include:
Dr HunJoon Kim
Does transitional justice make a difference? Implications for the Asia-Pacific region.
Despite the proliferation of human rights prosecutions and truth commissions, scholars know very little about whether such measures are actually effective in discouraging future human rights violations. This project answers this question by assessing the impact of human rights prosecutions and truth commissions on human rights practices.
Dr Vlado Vivoda
The politics of megadeals in the extractive industries.
This project aims to determine why some attempted large mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas industry and mining industries succeed and others fail. It will identify and analyse key factors which have shaped the outcome of major attempted deals in the extractive industries over the past decade.
Perspectives: Asia
March 08, 2012
Griffith Asia Institute is hosting an event at Gallery of Modern Art, South Bank by Associate Professor Bonnie English. For more details contact: gai@griffith.edu.au.
May 03, 2012
Griffith Asia Institute is hosting an event at Gallery of Modern Art, South Bank by Mr Rory Medcalf, Lowy Institute for International Policy. For more details contact: gai@griffith.edu.au.
October, 2011
On 20 October the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University and the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art, Queensland Art Gallery hosted The Honorable Julie Bishop MP, Deputy Opposition Leader as she presented ‘The Contemporary Nature of Australia’s Relationship with its Asian Neighbours’.
Recent News
GAI Launches New South Pacific Studies Group
The Griffith Asia Institute has recently initiated a new research group under the banner of the “South Pacific Studies Group".
GAI Launches New South Pacific Studies Group
The Griffith Asia Institute has recently initiated a new research group under the banner of the “South Pacific Studies Group".
Griffith Asia Institute - Research Seminar by Dr Wesley W. Widmaier
Griffith Asia Institute - Research Seminar by Dr Wesley W. Widmaier, ARC Future Fellow, GAI/CGPP.
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