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Items accessible from this page are research papers and essays written by faculty and participants at the CDSS (ADC). The views represented are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the CDSS or its Staff.

Electronic copies of the ADC publications, including selected research papers by CDSS course members are also available from the ADC publications web page.

The following theses for the degree of Master of Arts in Strategic Studies have been completed by participants and staff at CDSS. Copies of theses are held in the Special Library Collection at the Vane Green Library, Australian Defence College, Weston Creek.

Michael Chen:
The development and contemporary relevance of the five power defence arrangement, 2000.

Stephen McDowall:
Is Papua New Guinea a nation-state?, 2000.

George Veitch:
The state under threat: will the state survive the divergent trends confronting it in the changing world?, 2000.

David Kimber:
The utility of deterrence strategy, 2000.

Gwynrydd Rees:
The impact of ethnic nationalism on the Chinese state, 2000

Wayne Jackson:
Defence policy and the South West Pacific region, 2000

Brian Dawson:
Strategic implications for Australia of the security situation in South Asia, 2000

John Blackburn:
Australian defence and security policy. The need for a revolution in national affairs—the potential for the evolution of national security processes, 2000.

Chistopher Feeney:
The impact and significance of the unregulated flow of people in East Asia on the security environment of the countries of East Asia, the United States and Australia, 2000.

Alfred Quaife:
The role of peacetime military cooperation in Australian regional security, 2000.

Mike Silverstone:
The influences of American liberalism on United States military intervention policies during the Reagan administration: 1981 to 1988, 2001.

Jim Cole:
Leadership styles of aircrew in the Royal Australian Air Force, 2001.

Martyn Dunne:
The evolution of New Zealand defence and security policy and the implications on force structure, 2000.

John Duxfield:
Modelling reality: a constructivist view the US/NZ relationship 1984 to 1987, 2000.

Cary Chen:
Air power projection in the Taiwan Strait—a theatre analysis, 2001.

Mark Wheatley:
What factors have contributed to Australia’s effective participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations following the end of the Cold War? A case study of Australia’s involvement in UNITAF, UNTAC and INTERFET, 2000.

George Yacoub:
The path to the Ottawa Treaty and beyond: a road to success or failure, 2000.

Mark Ebery:
Globalization and its impact on states, with particular reference to the Asia-Pacific region, 2000.

Denis Mole:
Armchair experts: political, diplomatic and military strategic influences on the acquisition, use and control of submarines, 2000.

Dennis Green:
United Nations’ peacekeeping—Australia’s national interest, 2000.

Graham McKinnell:
The applicability to the Asia Pacific region of Buzan’s theory on the vulnerability of states to conflict, 2000.

Rodney Coombe:
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF): Security in the post-Cold War Asia-Pacific, 2001.

Richard Jones:
The influences on New Zealand defence policy from 1984 to 2000, 2001.

Mark Evans:
The contemporary relevance of Clausewitz’s theory of war, 2001.Gavin Howse:
The world trade organisation and regional trading agreements: tensions and trends, 2001.

Greg Elliott:
The ASEAN regional forum: talk shop or security community? 2001.Salvador Penaflor:
Implications of the Spratly Islands dispute for regional security and co-operation in Southeast Asia, 2001.

Ng Kok Cheong
The complexity of China’s security, 2001.

Ms Julia Dixon

LTCOL Cary Chen