Changing Regional and International Structures and Threats

• Investigate ways in which predominantly ‘state-centric’ security threats intersect with transnational threats to affect international security alignments and enmities;
• Cross-compare new with familiar forms of coordination of international responses as a means for managing both traditional and non-traditional security challenges; and
• Identify initiatives and options that Australian and international policy-makers could pursue for bridging traditional and non-traditional security policies.

• The Project secured commitments from 6 participating universities for participation in its “Virtual Security” project to utilise video conference facilities to allow ANU to connect with a selected network of partner institutions in the teaching of Asian security politics for Semester 1, 2011. The GAI component of CEPS is spearheading this initiative with the ANU. Other participating institutions include Keio University in Tokyo, Peking University, the University of Pittsburgh, the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore, the University of Tokyo and Yonsei University. Two workshops and two test modules were successfully conducted during 2010 in preparation for the conduct of a full postgraduate joint seminar incorporating this technology in 2011.
• The MacArthur program convened three workshops in March 2010. The first of these was held in Canberra and involved two of the four program focus groups (on alliances and arms control). A second program “overview group” met in Tokyo and a third group examining the “economic-security nexus” met in Manila. Program strategy and preliminary paper presentations were generated at these sessions. All program focus groups reconvened in Canberra during the first week of November 2010 to conduct a major review of research results and to undertake a combined case study evaluation/simulation exercise. This event (and the overall program) captured international attention and involved both academic and policy experts from within Australia and the region, as well as from the United States and Europe. An edited volume and two special journal issues are targeted outputs for this MacArthur program research. CEPS personnel (including the CEPS Director, the Chief Investigator of CEPS “Risky People” Project and the Director of GAI) attended this session and the GAI Director will contribute an article to one of the special journal issues featuring research output from this project. Associate Investigator Taylor has already published several major works emanating from research undertaken during the outset of this program, Taylor and Chief Investigator Tow have published a major piece on Asia-Pacific security architectures in the A-ranked journal Review of International Studies while student affiliate Satake has published research initially conducted as part of this program in 2009 in a forthcoming (March 2011) A-ranked journal, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (January 2011 issue).
• A workshop involving Australian and Korean scholars convened in March 2010 to assess Australia-Korea bilateral security relations after fifty years of normalisation in relations between these two states. Papers from this workshop will be published in a special issue of the highly regarded Yonsei University academic journal, Korean Observer, in March 2011.
• Project research on bilateral security relations between Japan and Australia proceeded during 2010 and led to the publication of four articles (including the lead article by CEPS Associate Investigator Kersten) in a special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs (March 2011 issue) and to a edited volume (with the Chief Investigator Tow and Associate Investigator Kersten as co-editors) to appear as a Palgrave Macmillan book in late 2011.
• A workshop on “Asian Perspectives on Human Security” convened in early September 2010. Funded by the Japan Foundation, the workshop’s papers are now in intermediate stages of development and will culminate with a major conference at Fudan University in Shanghai, China in September 2011. Chief Investigator Tow, Associate Investigator Kersten and CEPS Visiting Scholar Professor Aileen Baveria are all key participants in this program.
• ANU Department of International Relations and Griffith University CEPS/GAI shared several distinguished Visiting Scholars and guest speakers during 2010.

• Two workshops in Tokyo (May 2011) and in Singapore (September 2011), co-sponsored by the GAI, the RSIS, the University of Tokyo, the U.S. Naval War College and U.S. Army War College, will convene and lead to an edited volume on selected Asian security issues (projected publication in late 2012).
• The Project will work with Keio University on Japan-Australia Security Relations from September 2011 through 2012 on Australia-Japan security relations. Funding will be provided by the Nomura Foundation and possibly by the Tokyo Foundation.  
• From February to March 2011: Professor Doug Stuart from Dickinson College and the U.S. Army War College will be a CEPS Visiting Scholar at Griffith University and the ANU and will work on the Virtual Security project, the September 2011 Singapore conference and on a co-authored article with Chief Investigator Tow to be submitted to a major U.S. refereed journal.
• From April 2011 to March 2012: CEPS Visiting Fellow Professor Yoko Iwama from National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo will reside at the ANU’s Department of International Relations and at Griffith CEPS/GAI to facilitate our Project research on Australia-Japan relations and regional security.
• In March 2011: Chief Investigator Tow’s co-authored article on China and middle power diplomacy will be published in the A* journal The China Journal.
• From 17 to 19 May 2011: The 2011 MacArthur Asian Security Initiative Project to be jointly organised by the ANU-MacArthur and Peking University. This workshop will involve about 25 scholars travelling to Beijing to deliver conclusions to their research papers.
• From 20 to 21 September 2011: The final Human Security Workshop will be jointly organised by the ANU and Fudan University. Participants from the ANU, University of Tokyo, Kobe University, Osaka University, and Zhejiang University will attend the workshop at Fudan University in Shanghai.
• Associate Investigator Elliott will be conducting research for a major ARC Linkage Grant on Transnational Environmental Crime ($244,000 for 3 years) with the Compliance Support Unit in the Commonwealth Government’s Department of the Environment.
• Exploring collaboration with the Australian Department of Defence on a project dealing with Northeast Asian security regarding a possible ARC Linkage Grant application.