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Musings on Geopolitics and Power
Power shifts, conflict, empire, sovereignty, national interests, and the institutions that organise global affairs.
Industrial Economism – The Pathology & Its Cure
A Death Wish with a Business Plan
The Folly That Is AUKUS
An inquiry the state would not hold
The War That Cannot End
On the Productive Machinery of Permanent Conflict
Monsoon Before The Storm
The Gathering Pressures of a Multipolar World
When The Masters Stop Learning
In the early 1980s I found myself walking factory floors in a Japan many American executives still assumed was an industrial backwater.
Food: The Operating System Of A Dying World
I have spent much of my life staring at the dashboard of a civilisation that thinks it’s steering, while in reality its strapped to the front of a runaway helter-skelter, applauding its own acceleration.
United in Principle
The Lingering Death of an Empire on Paper
The Passport and the Psyche
Today I collected my new Australian passport from the embassy here in Bangkok.
When the Law Becomes the Threat
Political Dishonesty Operating Legitimately
When the Witness Stops Watching
The Fourth Estate and the Betrayal of Its Own Covenant
After Control
On Shedding the Operating System of Industrial Economism
The Coherence of Catastrophe
Interrupting the Logic of Endless War
Steering by Yesterday's Stars
Five Blind Spots at the Centre of Indo-Pacific Strategic Analysis
Beyond the Blame Game
Ecosystems of Power and the Illusion of the Individual Leader
How Wars Grow Old Before They Die
Face, Fatigue, and the Art of Slowing Humanity's Urge to Fight
The Gas Nobody Noticed
The Chokepoint Nobody Watched - Until Now
The Conscription of Grief
What Is Lost When Moral Language Serves Power
The Trap of the Pessimists
Against Certainty: Burning Off The Fog
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