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Our publications are the most important means of contact between the Centre's ideas and its general readership. Since 1976, The Centre for Independent Studies has produced some of the most authoritative publications in Australasian academia. From the influential Lands of Shame to the authoritative Will China Fail? CIS has published hundreds of publications covering topics from the social policy to legal affairs to religion and education.

In addition to books, the CIS publishes a range of shorter publications: Issue Analyses deal with controversial and current issues and Policy Mongraphs investigate and offer policy solutions. Since 1984, Policy magazine has published feature articles and reviews authored by some of the foremost national and international thinkers on public policy and ideas. The quality of writing and the diversity of topics in Policy ensure its status as a 'must read' by leading politicans, businesspeople and academics.

Hard copies of our publications are available for purchase through the bookstore. Many of the smaller publications are also available for download.

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All China Publications

  • Future Submarine Project Should Raise Periscope for Another Look

    Simon Cowan | 24 Oct 2012 | Policy Monographs

    Australia should not spend $40 billion to repeat the mistakes of the Collins Class submarine. Nuclear submarines, such as...

  • Southeast Asia’s American Embrace

    Jessica Brown | 29 Mar 2012 | Foreign Policy Analysis

    All Southeast Asian states want to take advantage of the benefits of a rising China, yet none wants it to be in a position...

  • INTERVIEW: Australia and the Rise of China

    Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe | 20 Aug 2011 | POLICY Magazine

    Paul Monk tells Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe that China's rise could require tough decisions about accommodating or resisting...

  • After the Wall – Reflections on the Legacy of 1989

    John Lee, Lee Duffield, Martin Krygier, Oliver Marc Hartwich | 08 Sep 2010 | Occasional Papers

    When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, it marked the end of the Cold War and of Eastern European communism. Two decades on, The...

  • BOOK REVIEW: When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World

    John Lee | 17 Jun 2010 | POLICY Magazine

    When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World by Martin Jacques (Allen Lane,...

  • FEATURE: The Geo-Political Shape of Asia in 2020

    John Lee | 17 Jun 2010 | POLICY Magazine

    Despite China's current rise, the strategic environment in Asia is changing more slowly than many believe.

  • The Fantasy of Taming China’s Rise

    John Lee | 05 May 2010 | Foreign Policy Analysis

    In The Fantasy of Taming China’s Rise, Dr John Lee, CIS Foreign Policy Research Fellow, argues that the belief that China...

  • FEATURE: Is China Really an 'East Asian Success Story'?

    Christopher Lingle | 04 Jun 2009 | POLICY Magazine

    State-controlled investment in China provides poor financial returns.

  • Will China Fail: The Limits and Contradictions of Market Socialism 2nd Edition

    John Lee | 28 May 2009 | Policy Monographs

    With the onset of the global economic crisis, China remains one of the only major economies likely to avoid recession. Released...

  • BOOK REVIEW: Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work In Contemporary China

    Eric Jones | 12 Dec 2008 | POLICY Magazine

    Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China by Anne-Marie Brady  (Rowman & Littlefield,...

  • China’s Insecurity and Search for Power

    John Lee | 13 Nov 2008 | Issue Analysis

    Although China feels vulnerable now, there is no doubt that it intends to eventually supersede American power and influence...

  • BOOK REVIEW: Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade

    Eric Jones | 15 Sep 2008 | POLICY Magazine

    Rivals: How The Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade by Bill Emmott (Allen Lane, 2008).

  • Putting Democracy in China on Hold

    John Lee | 28 May 2008 | Issue Analysis

    Since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, China has moved closer to a market economy but further away from a democratic state....

  • FEATURE: The False Promise of 'Market Socialism' in China

    John Lee | 09 Sep 2007 | POLICY Magazine

    Despite the hype, China is not evolving into a 'successful dictatorship'.

  • FEATURE: Australia's Position in Asia: Closer Than Ever

    Andrew Robertson | 07 Jul 2006 | POLICY Magazine

    John Howards' Government has improved Australia's relations with Asian countries.

  • REVIEW ESSAY: Mao- The Abhorrent Tyrant and How His Economic Legacy Has Been Overcome

    Wolfgang Kasper | 03 Mar 2006 | POLICY Magazine

    Mao, The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Jonathan Cape, 2005).

  • BOOK REVIEW: China's Future

    David Kelly | 12 Dec 2000 | POLICY Magazine

    China's Future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat by Ted Galen Carpenter and James A. Dorn (Cato Institute, 2000.)

  • BOOK NOTES: The Family: There Is No Other Way

    Barry Maley | 03 Mar 1997 | POLICY Magazine

    The Family: There Is No Other Way edited by Bill Muehlenberg, Joseph Santamaria, Peter Westmore and Mary Helen Woods (Australian...

  • FEATURE: Singapore and 'Asian Values'

    Christopher Lingle | 03 Mar 1996 | POLICY Magazine

    The price of Asian authoritarianism.

  • NOTES & COMMENTS: Private Property Rights and Economic Growth

    Ian Wills, Xiaokai Yang | 03 Mar 1993 | POLICY Magazine

    The Case of Rural China 1979-87.

  • BOOK REVIEW: The Persistence of Inequality

    David Tucker | 06 Jun 1990 | POLICY Magazine

    Egalitarianism and the Generation of Inequality by Henry Phelps Brown (Clarendon Press, 1988.)