Politics at Lunchtime
Come along and discuss local, national and international events and issues. Feel free to bring your lunch!
2020: The Year in Review
<p>Join Dr Keith Suter to look back over some of the momentous events of 2020 and forward to 2021. This year's theme is <em>Plague, Protests and Poverty</em>.
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Caspian Sea Politics: A Brief Introduction
<p>The Caspian Summit, which met for the first time on April 23-24, 2002, represents the interests of the five Caspian littoral states: Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan. In this
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: The New Sultan?
<p>Scholar Soner Cagaptay’s book <em>The New Sultan</em> bestows upon the President of Turkey this title. To what extent is Mr Erdoğan behaving like a Sultan? His pursuit of neo-Ottomanism and
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Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942
<p>According to Allan Gyngell: “Everything that Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand the world outside and to respond effectively to it.” Gyngell (AO; FAIIA)
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Operation Barbarossa 1941: The Goths Ride East
<p>In 1941 Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR opening a third front in World War 11. The German war machine had been very successful in western Europe but not on the
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Australia's Defence Strategy: Evaluating Alternatives for a Contested Asia
<p>Adam Lockyer asks: “How would we know a good [Australian] defence strategy if we saw one?” What would such a strategy look like, and how might we evaluate its potential effectiveness? Lockyer, a
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"She Tried" - The Legacy of the German Chancellor
<p>Merkel, the first female German chancellor, was re-elected for a fourth term in September 2017. Asked what she hopes history books will say about her legacy, she responded: ‘She tried.’ Take a
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The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
<p>Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, the enemies of the West have taken two main forms: “dragons” (state enemies such as Russia and China) and “snakes” (terrorist and guerilla organisations).
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Conspiracy Theories - The Vital Currency of Contemporary Populist Politics?
<p>A significant part of contemporary Populist Politics concerns the use of Conspiracy Theorizing. Consequently it is important to understand the main elements of such thinking, how such theories '
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"You can’t say that!" Political Correctness and the Culture War
<p>Political correctness - friend or foe? This course takes a deep dive into this cultural phenomenon to understand why it is part of our daily vocabulary. How is political correctness used to shut
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