'Peace through strength’ : Europe and NATO deterrence beyond the US nuclear posture review

With its 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, the Trump administration expanded the scope of US nuclear deterrence, re-emphasizing the importance of non-strategic nuclear weapons, perceptively lowering the threshold for nuclear use and casting doubt on the future of arms control. The authors argue that these changes are consistent with the administration's wider ‘peace through strength’ approach that draws on traditional Republican thinking on security policy. While designed to demonstrate credibility and resolve to both allies and adversaries, however, this assertive approach to security policy and specifically nuclear policy as a necessary precursor to renewed engagement in strategic negotiations may have unintended consequences. This article focuses on European reactions to the strategy and argues that the Trump administration's nuclear posture challenges common European understandings in three principal areas. First, changes to US declaratory policy contest European assumptions on the role of nuclear weapons in defending NATO. Second, US modernization plans and their implications for intra-alliance relations risk accentuating controversial debates about the US commitment to Europe. Third, the apparent US rejection of arms control widens the scope for discord with European leaders. If European leaders assert a clear and credible alternative vision advocating nuclear restraint, risk reduction and arms control they could rebuild trust and confidence between the United States, NATO and Russia, demonstrating real strength and ultimately leading to more genuine opportunities for peace and sustainable European security

The Change Makers' Project: A service learning approach to journalism education in Australia

In recent years the relevance of tertiary journalism programs and courses in Australia has come under question. In a bid to make journalism education more practice-focused, universities have introduced work-integrated learning (WIL) models as a strategy to give students real world experience. However, this paper argues that the dependence on WIL models has come at the expense of other pedagogical approaches such as service learning – which provides practice-based experience while at the same time contributing to community-building endeavours. This paper explores the value of service learning initiatives in journalism education and documents how Change Makers, a project developed and piloted at the University of Queensland since 2014, has demonstrated an alternative approach to experiential learning. This multi-awarding winning journalistic enterprise has been acknowledged for its journalistic innovation and its role in covering complex multicultural issues in one of Queensland’s most diverse ethnic communities

MTV EXIT ASIA III : A campaign to increase awareness and prevention of trafficking in persons (Independent Review)

Dr Andrew Skuse, Dr Scott Downma