The Winter 2008 edition of Security Challenges is now available for sale.

It features a focus on "Australia and the Development-Security Nexus" with articles by:

• Mike Smith and Jacqueline Whelan on Human Security;
• Sinclair Dinnen and Abby McLeod on the Pacific Islands; and
• Neil Greet on ADF Humanitarian Operations.

Other articles include:

• Hugh White on Australian Strategic Interests;
• Stephan Frühling on RAN force structure; and
• Michael Evans on the ADF and Operational Art.

In addition, this edition for the first time features debates on controversial articles published in Security Challenges. Discussed are Michael Evan's views on 'The ADF and Operational Art', and Ross Babbage's ideas on 'Learning to Walk Amongst Giants.'

For links to the abstracts of the individual articles, see the table of contents of this exiting issue.

Hard copies can be ordered here.

The Autumn 2008 edition of Security Challenges is now available for download in our web archive.

In a tour of security issues in the Asia-Pacific region, articles include:

• Benjamin Habib on North Korean regime stability;
• Andrew Forrest on China's views on Japan;
• Raoul E. Heinrichs on Australia's nuclear dilemma;
• Hugh White on the decisions leading to INTERFET; and
• Patrick Chisan Hew on fleet air defence.

In addition, Alison Hickman comments on decision support for Defence, and Ross Babbage on the new White Paper.