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Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at ANU
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A world-leading research school for the study of Asia-Pacific and international politics, society, strategy, security, and diplomacy.

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Watch the 2025 Coral Bell School Annual Lecture on Indigenous Diplomacy delivered by Prof Dominic O’Sullivan, who explores how UNDRIP can strengthen liberal democracy by recognising both persons & peoples, & advancing Indigenous agency.

🎥https://ow.ly/oamy50XobaO
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Delighted to welcome Prof Dominic O’Sullivan as this year’s guest speaker for our 2025 Annual Lecture on Indigenous Diplomacy!

Citizenship, Sovereignty & Self-Determination: UNDRIP & the Democratic State

📆: Thu 6 Nov, 5:30PM
🎟️: https://events.humanitix.com/2025-indigenous-diplomacy-annual-lecture
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
A moving evening @ ANU celebrating the launch of Strategic Imagination & honouring Brendan Sargeant, whose work continues to remind us that imagination lies at the heart of strategy.

Congratulations to Dr Andrew Carr & contributors on a remarkable tribute to a dear friend, strategist, & mentor.
October 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
At the 60th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Prof Bina D’Costa, chair of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, presented: “Principles, provisos & pathways to #ReparatoryJustice for people of African descent.”

👀 the report: quicklink.anu.edu.au/2o8m
October 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM
🎉 Proud of our Master’s student Zyarna Leefe! Zyarna represented Australia at the #G20 Youth Summit (#Y20) in South Africa, advocating for Indigenous peoples to have formal seats & decision-making roles in multilateral institutions — a proposal supported by 18/20 delegations!
September 17, 2025 at 4:47 AM
HDRs & ECRs: Apply for the Interpretive Methods Workshop (24-27 Nov) alongside #APSA2025.

Learn ethnography, discourse & interpretive policy analysis, + decolonising, queer & more-than-human approaches.

⚠️Apply by 3 Oct: quicklink.anu.edu.au/2gap

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September 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Funded PhD on violence against women & displacement in the Pacific, as part of ARC's CEVAW.

- $38,154 p.a. + tuition fee remission
- Work with communities across the Pacific, Asia & Australia

⚠️ Apply by 22 Sept 2025: quicklink.anu.edu.au/akr4

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September 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Authored by alumni of our Women in Strategic Policy program, 'Voices of the Future' addresses the importance of building a social license for AUKUS and providing tangible recommendations of how to do so.

Read it here 👇
quicklink.anu.edu.au/r1po
July 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
What comes after American hegemony?

Prof Evelyn Goh and @manjeetsp.bsky.social discuss 'Divergent Worlds'.

🗓️ Thu 7 Aug, 5-6:30pm AEST
🎟️ ow.ly/Wweg50Wo7nG

@anu-asiapacific.bsky.social @tommychai.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
New #OpenAccess article by Prof Jochen Prantl & Giridharan Ramasubramanian proposes Multilateralism 3.0 - a flexible, non-binary model using patchworks to build global cooperation across systems.

Read the article ➡️https://quicklink.anu.edu.au/9gca

@anu-asiapacific.bsky.social @ouranu.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
A new #OpenAccess piece by Prof Jochen Prantl et al argues that the polycrisis is widening the gap between governance demand & supply, shrinking policy space & testing state capacity.

➡️ Read the Global Policy article: quicklink.anu.edu.au/t82m

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July 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
SEAPS seeking submissions!

Edited by Bell School Profs ‪@edwardaspinall.bsky.social‬ & Nick Cheesman, invites original research on Southeast Asia: anthropology, history, lit, politics, gender studies & more.

➡️Criteria: asaa.asn.au/book-series/...
📚Series: nuspress.nus.edu.sg/collections/...
June 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
How can Asia’s histories reshape our theories of world politics? Join the next GRADNAS Seminar on Thurs 8 May, 8.30am AEST ➡️ events.humanitix.com/emerging-per...

@friederdengler.bsky.social @manjeetsp.bsky.social Tommy Chai & Kayeon Roh
April 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
30% discount code - Kirsten Ainley's new book 'Hybrid Justice: Innovation and Impact in the Prosecution of Atrocity Crimes' published by Oxford University Press is now available. When you order through the OUP site & use this discount code, you get 30% off! AUFLY30
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
March 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Today is our most favourite day of the year! When we welcome our 110+ new postgrad students embarking on their ANU masters in:
- Int'l Relations
- Strategic Studies
- Peace & Conflict Studies
- Diplomacy
- Int'l Law & Diplomacy
- Political Science
- Pacific Development
WELCOME to the Bell School!
February 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Today we're delighted to welcome @globalvoices.org Policy Fellows to meet Prof Toni Erskine for a pre-briefing, as they prepare to attend the #AIforGood #UN summit in Geneva. Global Voices is a youth-led NFP that upskills young (18-35yo) Australians in policymaking & global decision-making. Welcome!
February 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Congratulations Kirsten Ainley (ANU IR Dept) on her new edited book 'Hybrid Justice: Innovation & impact in the prosecution of #atrocity #crimes' co-editor @markkersten.bsky.social, exploring the recent resurgence & resilience of hybrid courts across Africa, Asia, & Europe.
Read: ow.ly/7Umx50UPZQe
January 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Hear Major General Mick Ryan @lowyinstitute.bsky.social discuss how #AI offers #military organisations a chance to interfere with enemy adaptation cycles - its called 'Counter Adaptation'.
Chair: Toni Erskine
📅 Wed 19 Feb, 6.30-7.30pm AEDT
📍 ANU Hedley Bull Bldng
👉https://quicklink.anu.edu.au/nx6h
January 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What’s stopping #Vanuatu women from achieving greater representation in parliament?
New research, a partnership between Balance of Power, 🇻🇺 Department of Women’s Affairs & @anudpa finds we need community-led strategies to support women candidates.

👉 bop.org.fj/insights/res...
December 4, 2024 at 12:05 AM
⚖️ How have international legal systems been used to navigate recent conflicts? @CeciliaJacob_IR (of @anubellschool.bsky.social) investigates how legal accountability is being used to combat conflicts in #Ukraine and #Gaza in real-time.
Read here: academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
November 27, 2024 at 5:37 AM
On Day 2 of #SEAISymposiumANU - we're grateful to these Fab7 colleagues from ⁦@ANUasiapacific & the world talking to us about publishing in SEA Studies, & a sessions for student participants’ to reflect & respond - still full of energy after nearly two days! ⁦@ANUmedia @ANUasiapacific ⁦@gradnas1
November 27, 2024 at 5:34 AM
Several Bell School & ANU College of Asia & the Pacific’s #Indonesia experts recently travelled to #Japan for a joint conference hosted by ANU and Ritsumeikan University
The conference analysed #Jokowi's Presidency and raised questions about his legacy.
November 26, 2024 at 11:47 PM
November 26, 2024 at 11:23 PM
In a roundtable on #NATO military adaptation in Scandinavia, yesterday we welcomed Prof Dennis Gyllensporre & Prof Håkan Edström (Swedish Defence University) to discuss European security, the accession of Sweden & Finland to NATO, & the defence of NATO’s new northern flank from the Russian threat...
November 26, 2024 at 11:15 PM