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Graeme Dobell
Graeme Dobell is Journalist Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Books & Arts
Memoirs of a Middle East tragic
Graeme Dobell
12 July 2023
A summing up by an Australian diplomat who loved the Arab world
Books & Arts
Fire, ash and official secrecy
Graeme Dobell
5 June 2023
The authorised history of Australia’s role in East Timor’s 1999–2000 crisis reveals as much about Canberra as it does about Dili
Books & Arts
The past catches up
Graeme Dobell
7 March 2023
An Australian diplomat follows le Carré and Greene among spies and moles
Books & Arts
Conquered by China
Graeme Dobell
26 October 2021
How a boy from the bush was seduced by the Asian giant
Books & Arts
The power and proximity of the dragon
Graeme Dobell
2 May 2021
How can Southeast Asian countries embrace China without being crushed?
Books & Arts
Carrying on till she’s carried out
Graeme Dobell
27 October 2020
Books
| Silence may be golden, says Madeleine Albright, but it won’t win many arguments
Books & Arts
The morality of presidents
Graeme Dobell
12 August 2020
Books
| We can never know the consequences of foreign policy, says the man who coined “soft power.” All we know are the means
Books & Arts
Malaysia’s amazing political rollercoaster
Graeme Dobell
12 May 2020
Books
| Winning elections in Southeast Asia is tough — and then what do you do?
Essays & Reportage
The meaning of Anzac Day
Graeme Dobell
24 April 2020
Australia has reshaped its understanding of what we mark on 25 April
Books & Arts
The heart of a reconnected world
Graeme Dobell
23 March 2020
Books
| How the Asia-Pacific became the Indo-Pacific, with a brief stop-off in the Asian century
Books & Arts
Of maps and minds
Graeme Dobell
10 February 2020
Can Australia embrace a regional identity?
Books & Arts
Military mosaic
Graeme Dobell
15 April 2019
Books | A former diplomat tells the story of the “talented cross-section” of Fiji’s youth who enlisted in the British Army in 1962
International
Not the new cold war
Graeme Dobell
27 November 2018
“Hot peace” is a much better label for this period of competing powers within a single system
Books & Arts
Fever in the blood
Graeme Dobell
19 November 2018
Books
| Two political memoirs reveal the exhilaration of power
Essays & Reportage
The sharp edge of soft power
Graeme Dobell
17 October 2018
Hard news and a free media are essential for Australian foreign policy — and that means we need a new, dedicated broadcasting organisation
Correspondents
Speakers great and small
Graeme Dobell
13 September 2018
Are America and Australia two allies separated by a common language?
Books & Arts
Australian diplomacy’s creation story
Graeme Dobell
23 May 2018
Books
| Two diplomats — one a restless innovator, the other “a master of benign neglect” — helped shape Australia’s opening up to the world
Essays & Reportage
China and Australia’s fifth icy age
Graeme Dobell
10 May 2018
Relations have been cool before, and will be cool again — though domestic issues are complicating the picture
National Affairs
ASEAN and Australia peer down from the summit
Graeme Dobell
19 March 2018
Shared hopes and fears were on display at the weekend’s meeting in Sydney
Books & Arts
Asia’s rise: the rules and the rulers
Graeme Dobell
15 February 2018
Review essay
| As the regional balance continues to shift, resolving the tension between history and geography is becoming more urgent for Australia
Books & Arts
ASEAN as a bloody miracle
Graeme Dobell
12 December 2017
Books
| Somehow, this extraordinarily diverse group of countries has held together for half a century. Can it last?
National Affairs
Bright hopes, dark visions
Graeme Dobell
23 November 2017
The government’s foreign policy white paper attempts a delicate balancing act
Correspondents
Breakfast in America
Graeme Dobell
10 October 2017
Letter from Washington
| Six weeks in Trump territory leaves our correspondent worried but grateful
Books & Arts
The fearfully pragmatic heart of Australian diplomacy
Graeme Dobell
20 June 2017
Books
| Australia’s diplomatic capabilities are about to be tested again
Books & Arts
Parallel lives
Graeme Dobell
29 March 2017
Books
| A former journalist and diplomat offers a double-jointed view of Australia’s international role
Books & Arts
The education of Dr K.
Graeme Dobell
17 December 2015
Books
|
Graeme Dobell
reviews an admirer’s biography of the controversial scholar-strategist
International
The legacies of terror
Graeme Dobell
18 November 2015
Just over a century ago another movement tried to terrify the West, writes
Graeme Dobell
. Its failure helps illuminate ISIS’s campaign and its likely impact
Books & Arts
Restless continents throbbing and surging
Graeme Dobell
20 October 2015
Books
| Even if the Asian century is peaceful that doesn’t mean it will be harmonious, writes
Graeme Dobell
Books & Arts
Edging through the fog
Graeme Dobell
13 November 2014
A diplomat and a psychologist have produced a remarkable guide to dealing with intransigent conflicts, writes
Graeme Dobell
Books & Arts
China wakes, Asia quakes, Australia shivers
Graeme Dobell
25 July 2014
A contest is under way, writes
Graeme Dobell
, but it will be more like a nineteenth-century battle than a twentieth-century clash
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