Security Challenges Competition

2010 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 Australia's national security challenges.

The 2009 round of the competition is now closed. For details regarding the 2010 round, please visit this website in early 2010.

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 (forthcoming)

3rd Prize

Matthew Hill
A Velvet Glove? Coercion and the Australasian Response to the 2006 Fijian Coup (forthcoming)

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?