Signalling a Mushroom Cloud: Explaining the Effect of Nuclear Signals on Crisis Outcomes
Seminar
When does signaling with nuclear weapons help states achieve their political aims during international crises? Rather than exploring the coercive effect of the background threat of nuclear destruction, this paper develops a military signaling theory of nuclear coercion. The theory argues that…
Forty Years since First Contact: Revisiting the classic documentary by Bob Connolly and the late Robin Anderson, in conversation with Professor Martin Thomas
Seminar
First Contact (1983) is the Oscar-nominated documentary about the Leahy brothers, gold-hungry Queenslanders who explored New Guinea in the 1930s. Armed with guns and trade goods, they were typical colonials in search of El Dorado. But in one way they were different: they travelled with a movie…
Fertility Intentions to Decisions: Investigating Factors that Affect China-born Women’s Fertility Intentions in Australia
Seminar
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Food System Transitions, Nutritional Insecurity and Oil Palm: Changing Landscapes of Social Reproduction in Sumatra's Plantation Belt
Seminar
In Southeast Asia, a plantation boom over recent decades has transformed landscapes and life-making on an immense scale, with some 16 million hectares of land under oil palm cultivation in Indonesia. In Sumatra, the historical origin of Indonesia's oil palm complex and where the societal…
Lecture: A multidimensional approach to the impacts of Russia’s war against Ukraine
Lecture
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine eighteen months ago, much of the general public’s attention and media coverage has understandably focused on military aspects of the war. Yet, to grasp fully the medium-to-long term implications of the war, requires a multidimensional analysis. From an…
The repugnant conclusion and internal consistency of choice - Susumu Cato
Seminar
Speaker: Susumu Cato The mere addition paradox pioneered by Derek Parfit is revisited. The paradox revolves around two conditions: "mere addition," which posits that adding individuals with positive utility should make a population at least as good as the original, and "non-anti-…
Health and Complexity in South and Sub-Saharan Africa
Seminar
Almost 30 years since political liberation, vast social, economic and health inequities exist throughout South Africa. These are especially stark when contrasting rural and urban health experiences and outcomes, where broader socio-political phenomena are brought to bear on people’s everyday lives…