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Nautilus Peace and Security Weekly – 5 December 2013

Indonesia, Australia and Edward Snowden: ambiguous and shifting asymmetries of power

Richard Tanter writes “Courtesy of Edward Snowden, the Australian government is discovering that an asymmetry in electronic surveillance capacity does not trump the fundamental asymmetry of power between Australia and Indonesia. NSA documents that the premier Australian intelligence agency monitored and intercepted phone calls by the Indonesian president, his wife, and inner circle of advisors has generated an extraordinarily rapid collapse in relations between the two governments, possibly with longterm effects. The Indonesian government has called for a new intelligence accord, which will prove difficult for the Abbott government, not least because of the role of the NSA in Australian signals intelligence. A review of supervision and oversight of Australian intelligence agencies is urgently required.”

Richard Tanter is Senior Research Associate at the Nautilus Institute and teaches in the School of Poiltics and Social Science at the University of Melbourne.

Nautilus Peace and Security Weekly – 28 November 2013

Nautilus Peace and Security Weekly – 21 November 2013

  • DETERRENCE: Work of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
  • DPRK: U.S. to hold more talks on North Korea with East Asian States
  • ENERGY SECURITY: Slowdown in carbon emissions worldwide, but coal burning continues to grow
  • GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: With visits to all 10 ASEAN nations, Abe’s China containment strategy complete
  • CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Cameron links typhoon Haiyan to climate change

Potential Regional Nuclear Energy Sector Cooperation on Enrichment and Reprocessing: Scenarios, Issues, and Energy Security Implications

This Special Report by David von Hippel looks at the relative impacts of different fuel cycle options on other aspect of (broadly defined) energy security.

In this Special Report von Hippel presents a summary of the current status of and recent trends in electricity consumption in general, and nuclear generation capacity in particular, in the nations of East Asia and the Pacific, offer three future scenarios of nuclear power development in the region (section 2); notes some of the options for nuclear fuel cycle cooperation that have been previously offered for the region, and describe and evaluate four potential scenarios for nuclear fuel cycle cooperation (or non-cooperation) in the region (section 3); and describes some of the key conclusions of the analysis of fuel cycle options for energy security policies in the region (section 4).

David F. von Hippel is a Nautilus Institute Senior Associate. His work with Nautilus has centered on energy and environmental issues in Asia, with a particular emphasis on Northeast Asia and North Korea.

Nautilus Peace and Security Weekly – 14 November 2013