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Susan Windybank

Susan worked at the CIS in the roles of Editor and then Foreign Policy Program Analyst.  She has worked in areas such as Papua New Guinea, the Pacific, Australian Foreign Policy and the US Alliance.  She is the author of numerous articles on Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, and is co-author of the CIS Issue Analysis papers Papua New Guinea on the Brin' and Papua New Guinea's Choice: A Tale of Two Nations. Sue also co-wrote the Occasional Paper Between Two Worlds on Australian foreign policy responses to new and old security dilemmas. She holds a Masters degree with merit in Political Science from the University of Sydney.

Publications by Author

  1. FEATURE: The Illegal Pacific, Part 1: Organised Crime

    Susan Windybank | 04 Jun 2008 | POLICY Magazine

    Until the islands establish the rule of law, they will continue to suffer from the 'dark side' of globalisation.

  2. FEATURE: What Creates Comparative Advantage for Drug Production? Lessons from Columbia

    Susan Windybank | 03 Mar 2007 | POLICY Magazine

    Political and social problems in Columbia created opportunities for illegal drug production, explains similar Francisco E... Read More...

  3. INTERVIEW: The West in an Asian Century

    Susan Windybank | 12 Dec 2005 | POLICY Magazine

    Susan Windybank interviews Kishore Mahbubani, a distinguished former diplomat and scholar from Singapore: dubbed 'the Max... Read More...

  4. Between Two Worlds. Australian Foreign Policy Responses to New and Old Security Dilemmas

    David Martin Jones, Susan Windybank | 23 Oct 2005 | Occasional Papers

    Globalisation has connected these two worlds through ease of travel, communications and financial flows, but it has not integrated... Read More...

  5. FEATURE: The China Syndrome

    Susan Windybank | 07 Jul 2005 | POLICY Magazine

    There may be more to the growing Chinese presence in the Southwest Pacific than meets the eye.

  6. INTERVIEW: The Thoughtful Superhawk

    Susan Windybank | 03 Mar 2005 | POLICY Magazine

    Susan Windybank speaks Robert Kagan about his controversial thesis and America's role in the world.

  7. BOOK REVIEW: State Building: Governance and World Order in the Twenty-First Century

    Susan Windybank | 12 Dec 2004 | POLICY Magazine

    State Building: Governance and World Order in the Twenty-First century by Francis Fukuyama (Profile Books, 2004).

  8. INTERVIEW: Turkey's Quest for Freedom

    Susan Windybank | 09 Sep 2004 | POLICY Magazine

    Susan Windybank interviews Atilla Yayla about the challenges to economic and political liberalisation. They also discuss... Read More...

  9. EDITORIAL: Summer 2003

    Susan Windybank | 12 Dec 2003 | POLICY Magazine

    Editorial for Summer 2003.

  10. INTERVIEW: Can New Zealand Fly Again?

    Susan Windybank | 06 Jun 2003 | POLICY Magazine

    The New Reform Agenda: An interview with Sir Roger Douglas, who as the New Zealand Labour Government's Minister of Finance... Read More...

  11. Papua New Guinea on the Brink

    Susan Windybank | 12 Mar 2003 | Issue Analysis

    Papua New Guinea shows every sign of following its Melanesian neighbour, the Solomon Islands, down the path to economic decline,... Read More...

  12. INTERVIEW: On Prudence and Restraint In Foreign Policy

    Susan Windybank | 03 Mar 2002 | POLICY Magazine

    Former Editor-in-Chief of the Washington-based, foreign policy journal, The National Interest, Owen Harries talks about the... Read More...

  13. INTERVIEW: Beyond The Welfare State

    Susan Windybank | 09 Sep 2001 | POLICY Magazine

    Dismantling the postwar welfare state would reveal a whole set of choices in a world without a government welfare system. 

  14. INTERVIEW: The Permanent Fight for Freedom

    Susan Windybank | 06 Jun 2001 | POLICY Magazine

    Former Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus looks back on the past ten years of postcommunist transition from a command to a... Read More...

  15. REVIEW: Rethinking Australia's Defence

    Susan Windybank | 09 Sep 2000 | POLICY Magazine

    Defence Review 2000- Our Future Defence Force A Public Discussion Paper (Department of Defence, Canberra, 2000.) Australia's... Read More...

Opinion & Commentary by Author

  1. Why China first wooed then jilted Kiribati

    Susan Windybank | 29 Jan 2007 | The Canberra Times

    The news that a Chinese missile shot down an old satellite has made headlines around the world. The successful strike confirms... Read More

  2. Economics spats grow deeper amid endemic corruption in Pacific

    Susan Windybank | 23 Oct 2006 | The Courier Mail

    Ever since the Howard government embarked on a more assertive approach toward the Pacific with the watershed Solomons intervention... Read More

  3. US should reconsider financial aid for Vanuatu

    Susan Windybank | 08 Dec 2005 | The Australian Financial Review

    Vanuatu is among a select group of countries eligible for hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance through the millennium... Read More

  4. Will Papua New Guinea be a 'failed state'?

    Susan Windybank | 08 Apr 2003 | The International Herald Tribune

    Papua New Guinea is rich in natural resources. Yet it is facing a very difficult future. The economy has stagnated and the... Read More

  5. Expect fallout here as our neighbour falls apart

    Susan Windybank | 12 Mar 2003 | The Australian

    With the impending war on Iraq and growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula understandably dominating media headlines, economic... Read More

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