Arena Journal articles

Recent articles from Arena Journal

Securing the future.(Editorial)
March 22, 2007... In the main, we do not think about security in everyday life. It is simply taken for granted--until it comes under threat. When security is lacking, it is as though the world has come apart: trust, truth and integrity between people suffers. Indeed, serious insecurity can lead to desperation...

The abuses of realism and Australian security interests.(Commentary)(Report)
March 22, 2007... The 2007 Defence Update The Defence Update 2007 (1) comes after a decade of constant and still unfinished increases in defence spending, a tripling of domestic security spending, huge weapons systems orders, Australian Defence Force deployments from Lebanon to the Solomon Islands, three...

Turning Sunni and Shia against each other.(Commentary)(Report)
March 22, 2007... The surreal appointment as special 'peace envoy' to the Middle East of a man who shares responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East, was announced as the Israeli military launched its biggest single attack on Gaza since the electoral victory of Hamas in...

Nations vs imperial unions in a time of globalization, 1707-2007.(Commentary)(Essay)
March 22, 2007... In the circumstances of intensifying globalization, all nations are becoming mongrels, hybrids or foundlings, but old empires die hard. May 2007 marked the three-hundredth anniversary of the state that founded Australia--the United Kingdom of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. This elderly...

Rogue Pakeha.(Essay)
March 22, 2007... How not to speak of brothers? Jacques Derrida, Rogues: Two Esssays on Reason. The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule, Walter Benjamin, 'On the Concept of History'. Ahmed In a state of some...