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Articles by Peter Hooton
The Herzog visit and the Israelisation of antisemitism
Inviting Israel’s president to Australia in the wake of the Bondi attack has blurred the line between antisemitism and legitimate criticism of Israel, weakening rather than strengthening social cohesion. If the Australian Government is indeed serious about promoting social cohesion in the wake of the Bondi terror attack, then the decision to invite Israel’s President Isaac Herzog to visit Australia at such a traumatic moment in our history must be judged irresponsible.
The Risks of Proliferation in a Nuclear Age of Entropy
US allies are revisiting their nuclear security arrangements in response to American pressure. For some who have long placed a mistaken trust in the proliferation-inhibiting notion of extended nuclear deterrence, a selective increase in the number of nuclear-armed states seems to be the most obvious answer to their fears of abandonment.
Nuclear disarmament is not going to happen: the case for signing the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty
The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force today. Australias failure to sign the treaty is at odds not only with its international humanitarian obligations but also with its most basic strategic interests.
The Extended Nuclear Deterrence Myth - Australian Institute of International Affairs
Australia has long contributed to global arms control and non-proliferation efforts, yet its reliance on the US nuclear umbrella reflects a conflicting stance on nuclear disarmament. This dependence not only undermines Australia’s historical commitment to nuclear disarmament but also risks drawing the nation into potential nuclear conflict without assured protection.
Australia’s bipolar approach to nuclear disarmament
ABSTRACT Australia is a strong supporter of global nuclear (and conventional) arms control and non-proliferation measures and has contributed significantly to their development; but it sees the world, strategically, through the eyes of a nuclear weapon state which, it believes, applies its nuclear deterrence doctrine also to the defence of Australia.
Susannah Patton's Bio | People | Lowy Institute
Susannah Patton is Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute and the Project Lead for the Asia Power Index, the Institute’s annual data-driven assessment that maps the changing distribution of power in the region. Her research on Southeast Asia is focused on strategic alignment dynamics and the roles of external powers including the United States, China and Australia.
Australia and the Nuclear Ban Treaty
The first Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) took place in Vienna from 21 to 23 June. The new Australian government sent an observer, Susan Templeman MP, to the meeting, marking Australia’s first engagement with a treaty that is firmly opposed by the nuclear weapon states and their allies.
Pacific labour mobility and the existential threat of climate change
The consolidation of Australia’s identity as an Asia-Pacific nation is a work in progress. It is as a consistently attentive and engaged Asia-Pacific nation – rather than as a US ally or a European outpost – that Australia will fit in most comfortably with its neighbours and be of most service to its friends further afield.
Solomons security pact: Sogavare, China, and Australia
Labor has described Solomon Islands’ security pact with China as Australia’s biggest foreign policy failure in the Pacific since the Second World War, but this is hyperbole. Australia’s biggest foreign policy failure in the region – ever – is its failure to address (at both a national and international level) the issue which poses the gravest single threat to the future viability of Pacific island countries as sovereign states: climate change.
Climate change in the Pacific - what Australia needs to do
Australia has long claimed a special relationship with Pacific island countries as their largest regional trade, investment, security and development partner. But these same countries have been frustrated and disappointed by Australia’s failure to address the issue which poses the gravest single threat to their future viability as sovereign states: climate change.
Buy Keane Book at Easons
by Eoin O'Callaghan | 21 August 2020 Pick your favourite Roy Keane moment. The header against Juventus? The tunnel clash with Patrick Vieira? The bone-crunching challenge on Marc Overmars at Lansdowne Road? All worthy choices that complement his aggressive, combative warrior persona. But that was Version 2.0. Keane: Origins delves into the inexplicable story of what came before.
The Rise and Fall of the Boot Room - Simon Hughes in Conversation with Peter Hooton and Roy Evans
We are delighted to host the launch event for this fascinating book by lifelong LFC supporter(lead singer of The Farm, and co-editor of The End fanzine)which looks at the legendary Anfield Boot Room - a 12' by 12' room that Shankly transformed in to a space where so many deals were made, tactical decisions taken, strategies analysed and rejected - a tradition then continued by many managers who followed.No fan with an interest in the history of the club wants to miss this special night -...
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