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To capture today’s challenges from a wider arc of vision, we bring you PERISCOPE – a platform for publications and analysis on contemporary issues. Just like the real-world sighting instrument, PERISCOPE is meant to broaden our insights - taking in views from different angles.

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Regional Programme Australia and the Pacific - Activities 2020

The Annual Report 2020 summarises all our activities for the past year. Dive into our exciting past programs reaching from Australia to New Zealand and to our destinations in the South Pacific.

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Geoconomics and Sovereignty in the Indo-Pacific: Integration across Geographies

KAS Regional Programme Australia and the Pacific hosted a special dialogue event with the Hon Dan Tehan MP, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment at Parliament House

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A New Wave? Existing, Emerging and Converging Forms of Extremism

The proliferation of anti-democratic ideas and violence constitutes a new landmark in the evolving terrorism/extremism landscape. Under the guise of democratic dissent, anti-government protests are becoming a vehicle for increasing polarization and extremist activism as a prolonged ‘state of exception’ allows for the frustrations and anger of citizens to be steered around the interests of the far-right.

A New Wave? Existing, Emerging and Converging Forms of Extremism

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Foreign and Security Policy Cyber Security Terrorism / Counter-Terrorism Energy Policy Rule of Law Development Policy

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2022 2021 All

Thinking Patterns Underlying Narratives of Violent Extremism and Conspiracy Theories

by Mahmoud Pargoo

The Dilemma of Multiculturalism and its Exploitation by Extremists: Insights from the Swedish Perspective

Edited by Sophia Brook & Katja Theodorakis

Hydrogen Certification in Australia, Germany and Japan

Edited by Bertil Wenger & Eva U Wagner

Analysis Briefs

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The Rule of Law and an Independent Judiciary in Samoa

Taulapapa Brenda Heather-Latu

IntroductionThe Independent State of Samoa is a small island state located beneath the flightpath roughly half way between New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, comprising 190,000 people of Polynesian ethnicity spread over two large and two smaller islands.…

Research, Education and CT: Different ends and common purposes

Kristy Milligan

This brief will examine the challenges academic researchers, educators and counter-terrorism (CT) practitioners face in working towards their shared purposes of combatting and preventing terrorism.…

A New Wave? Existing, Emerging and Converging Forms of Extremism

Katja Theodorakis

Australia’s Right-Wing Landscape:
Local Threats in Transnational Context

Kristy Milligan

’The perfect storm’ – an analysis of Sweden’s experience with foreign fighter radicalisation

Gabriel Sjöblom-Fodor

A New Wave? Existing, Emerging and Converging Forms of Extremism

Katja Theodorakis

Introducing a new agenda for inquiry The proliferation of anti-democratic ideas and violence constitutes a new landmark in the evolving terrorism/extremism landscape.…

The Rule of Law in Fiji: Freedom from Cruel and Degrading Treatment; Freedom of Speech and Association

Ana Tuiketei

Despite celebrating her 50th year of Independence in 2020, Fiji since its independence in 1970 has had four coups and three constitutions, with the international community observing if there are solutions to stability for the rule of law and for democracy despite the coup cycle phenomena.…

Australia’s Opportunity: Synergies between Hydrogen Export and Domestic Energy Transition in Australia

Changlong Wang, Dr Roger Dargaville and Dr Falko Ueckerdt

Analysis of the Australian Hydrogen Strategy

Dr Thomas Longden

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Regional Programme Australia and the Pacific - Activities 2020

Geoconomics and Sovereignty in the Indo-Pacific: Integration across Geographies

A New Wave? Existing, Emerging and Converging Forms of Extremism

Topics

Paper Series

Thinking Patterns Underlying Narratives of Violent Extremism and Conspiracy Theories

The Dilemma of Multiculturalism and its Exploitation by Extremists: Insights from the Swedish Perspective

Hydrogen Certification in Australia, Germany and Japan

Analysis Briefs

The Rule of Law and an Independent Judiciary in Samoa

Research, Education and CT: Different ends and common purposes

A New Wave? Existing, Emerging and Converging Forms of Extremism

Australia’s Right-Wing Landscape:
Local Threats in Transnational Context

’The perfect storm’ – an analysis of Sweden’s experience with foreign fighter radicalisation

A New Wave? Existing, Emerging and Converging Forms of Extremism

The Rule of Law in Fiji: Freedom from Cruel and Degrading Treatment; Freedom of Speech and Association

Australia’s Opportunity: Synergies between Hydrogen Export and Domestic Energy Transition in Australia

Analysis of the Australian Hydrogen Strategy

Digital Lens

PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM – Regional Solidarity Restored, For Now

Energy Crisis: Australia on the Brink of Blackouts

Geopolitical storms brewing in the Pacific Islands

Periscope Podcast Series #2/22

Zeitenwende and the Indo-Pacific

Australia in the run up to the election

SOLOMON ISLANDS – Australia’s Red Line in the Pacific

Regional Programme Australia and the Pacific Activities 2021

The Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) – What does it entail and how was it received?

SOLOMON ISLANDS – Security made in China?

Geopolitical Considerations and Disaster Relief – The Future of the ADF

Periscope Podcast Series #1/22

Team

Bertil Wenger

Eva U Wagner

Sophia Brook

Juliane Strache

Topics

Paper Series

Thinking Patterns Underlying Narratives of Violent Extremism and Conspiracy Theories

The Dilemma of Multiculturalism and its Exploitation by Extremists: Insights from the Swedish Perspective

Hydrogen Certification in Australia, Germany and Japan

Analysis Briefs

The Rule of Law and an Independent Judiciary in Samoa

Research, Education and CT: Different ends and common purposes

A New Wave? Existing, Emerging and Converging Forms of Extremism

Australia’s Right-Wing Landscape:Local Threats in Transnational Context

’The perfect storm’ – an analysis of Sweden’s experience with foreign fighter radicalisation

A New Wave? Existing, Emerging and Converging Forms of Extremism

The Rule of Law in Fiji: Freedom from Cruel and Degrading Treatment; Freedom of Speech and Association

Australia’s Opportunity: Synergies between Hydrogen Export and Domestic Energy Transition in Australia

Analysis of the Australian Hydrogen Strategy

Digital Lens

PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM – Regional Solidarity Restored, For Now

Energy Crisis: Australia on the Brink of Blackouts

Geopolitical storms brewing in the Pacific Islands

Periscope Podcast Series #2/22

Zeitenwende and the Indo-Pacific

Australia in the run up to the election

SOLOMON ISLANDS – Australia’s Red Line in the Pacific

Regional Programme Australia and the Pacific Activities 2021

The Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) – What does it entail and how was it received?

SOLOMON ISLANDS – Security made in China?

Geopolitical Considerations and Disaster Relief – The Future of the ADF

Periscope Podcast Series #1/22

Team

Bertil Wenger

Eva U Wagner

Sophia Brook

Juliane Strache

Australia’s Right-Wing Landscape:
Local Threats in Transnational Context