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Young Strategic Writers Competition

The Australian Defence Business Review is supporting Security Challenges by sponsoring an annual competition for young scholars or professionals writing on security challenges facing Australia and the region. A generous prize of $A2500 will be awarded for the best submission by an authors under 35 years of age.

All contributions to this competition, which can be made as full articles or comments, must conform with the standard Security Challenges author guidelines. Contributions can be made by email to editor@kokodafoundation.org throughout the year. All winning articles will be published in forthcoming editions of Security Challenges.

The closing date for submissions for the 2013 round is 9am (Canberra time) on Friday, 4 October 2013.

Articles submitted and accepted for publication by Security Challenges before the closing date of the competition are also eligible to participate.

The competition is open to all young scholars or professionals under 35 years of age (as of the closing date).  If a submission is co-authored, all authors must be under 35 years of age.  Authors must explicitly state their age and intent to enter the competition when submitting an article or comment.

All submissions will be reviewed by an expert panel whose decision is final. Members of the Kokoda Foundation are eligible to participate, unless they are members of the Board of the Foundation or of the editorial team of Security Challenges.


2012 Winner

Will Clegg
Don’t Get Smart with Me! Sustaining the ADF in the Age of the Strategic Reform Program
 


2011 Winner

Wilson Chun Hei Chau
Explaining China’s Participation in Bilateral and Multilateral Military Exercises
 


2010 Winners

1st Prize

Anna Samson
The Grand Weiqi Board: Reconsidering China’s Role in Africa
 

2nd Prize

Matthew Hill
Chessboard or ‘Political Bazaar’?
Revisiting Beijing, Canberra and Wellington’s Engagement with the South Pacific

 

3rd Prize

Sheryn Lee
The Defining Divide: Cross-Strait Relations and US, Taiwan, China Strategic Dynamics

 


2009 Winners

1st Prize

Will Clegg
Irregular Forces in Counterinsurgency Warfare
 

2nd Prize

Mayang Rahawestri
Obama’s Foreign Policy in Asia: More Continuity than Change

 

3rd Prize

Matthew Hill
A Velvet Glove? Coercion, and the Australasian Response to the 2006 Fijian Coup

 


2008 Winners

1st Prize

Richard Maher
Obama versus McCain: Implications for the United States-Australia Alliance
 

2nd Prize

Roy McDowall
The Strategic Depiction of China in Howard Government Policy

 

3rd Prize

Yusuke Ishihara
Partnership Adrift: Reshaping Australia-Japan Strategic Relations

 


2007 Winners

1st Prize

Benjamin Habib
Another Perfect Storm?  Predictors of Radical Change in North Korea
 

2nd Prize

Raoul E. Heinrichs
Australia’s Nuclear Dilemma: Dependence, Deterrence or Denial?
 

3rd Prize

Alison Hickman
Assisting Strategic Analysis in an Uncertain World
 

Honourable Mentions

Andrew Forrest
How to Be a Good Friend: China and the Australia-Japan Security Relationship
 
Patrick Chisan Hew
National Effects-Based Operations: The Example of Fleet Air Defence
 


2006 Winners

1st Prize

Cherie Canning
Pursuit of the Pariah: Iran, Sudan and Myanmar in China’s Energy Security Strategy
 

2nd Prize

Simon Moffat
Globalisation, Terrorism and Cosmopolitan Australia

 

3rd Prize

James D. Stratford
Strategic Culture and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Conceptual Challenges and Policy Opportunities
 

Honourable Mentions

James Manicom
Near-term Instability in the Taiwan Strait? Nationalist Constituencies in the PRC and Cross-Strait Stability
 
Joanne Wallis
A 'helpem fren' in need... Evaluating the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands
 

Benjamin Zala
Asia-Pacific: The New Nuclear Fault Line?

 
 
   

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