1. What coercive tools are available to the United States to coerce China to stop the construction of artificial islands in the South China sea? Which would be the most effective, and precisely what will they achieve?
2. Should Australia seek a security alliance with Japan? What would be the costs and benefits of such an arrangement both now and in the future as Japan slowly remilitarises?
3. What caused the 2008 Russia-Georgia war? Given Russia’s recent annexation of Crimea, how can the United States and its allies prevent further wars between Russia and its adversaries in Ukraine and the Baltic States?
4. If North Korea developed nuclear weapons capable of targeting the United States, how, if at all, would this influence its foreign policies towards the United States, South Korea and elsewhere? What can and should the United States and its allies do to maintain stability and reduce the likelihood of conflict?
5. Violence in Iraq and Afghanistan has been ongoing for over a decade. Select one of these conflicts, and explain why it has not yet been resolved. What has caused the conflict to start and persist? What would be required for it to end? What is the best role for the Australian troops still deployed there, and what is the most that they can achieve?
6. What were the motivations behind the Paris 2015 and Brussels 2016 attacks? How can counterinsurgency efforts be revised, if at all, to stop further attacks?
7. The Syrian civil war has killed well over 250000 people and injured and displaced many more. Why have humanitarian intervention initiatives produced such limited results? How, if at all, should the Responsibility to Protect be reformed to save more lives in this conflict?

 
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