Product Description: The terror campaign by pro-Indonesian armed groups before, during, and after East Timor's independence referendum in 1999 was a blatant challenge to the international community as many of the acts of murder, political intimidation, destruction, and mass deportation took place before the eyes of the world...read more

Product Description: Since the 1970s, the deaths of five newsmen in Balibo, East Timor have nagged at consciences in Australia, Britain and New Zealand. This study reveals of the workings of a clandestine system of deceit, and names those involved in a 24-year trail of cover-ups and denial...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In December 1944 General Blamey, the Commander in Chief of the Australian Military Forces, was handed a file. It contained decrypted radio intercepts which proved that the Imperial Japanese Army was receiving top secret information - US and Australian war plans...read more

The security architecture of the Asia/Pacific region is in a profound transformation. Such changes are not without problems, which are discussed here.

Product Description: An assessment of the future of regional security in Asia and the Pacific, focusing on multilateral consultation and co-operation.

Product Description: Indonesia and Australia, though geographically close countries, are strangers in many significant respects. They do share common interests, including the objectives of a stable and secure region and economic well-being. But they also have many differences, since they are quite unlike in their respective cultural heritages, religious beliefs and practices, political structures, demographic bases, levels and patterns of economic development, and military forces and defence policies...read more

Product Description: "Security and defence" provides a comprehensive in-depth study of Australia and the Asia--Pacific region, with a fresh approach which counters the traditional Euro- and American-centric view of strategy and defence in this part of the world...read more

Product Description: PINE GAPis the most important US installation in Australiais part of a 'black' program, the geostationary SIGINT satellite programits purpose and functions are the most secretPINE GAPis the most visible sign of Australia's integration into America's security posturehas long been represented to the Australian public by an extraordinary series of half-truths, evasions and disinformationPINE GAPWhat does this installation really do? Does it support arms control or threaten global stability? Does its role limit Australian sovereignty? Should the US be given notice that it must be closed?This book sets out as dispassionately as possible all the information a citizen requires to form an opinion about this top-secret installation a symbol of one of the major issues in Australian foreign policy today...read more

Product Description: Summary of nuclear statecraft.