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Dr Michael Cohen

Senior Lecturer and PhD Programme Convenor at the National Security College, Australian National University

Michael Cohen is a Senior Lecturer and PhD Programme Convenor at the National Security College, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. He is the author of When Proliferation Causes Peace: The Psychology of Nuclear Crises (Georgetown University Press, 2017) and co-editor of North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: Entering the New Era of Deterrence (Georgetown University Press, 2017) and articles in scholarly journals including European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Global Security Studies, Asian Security and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. From September 2022 through January 2023 he was Partner Across the Globe Fellow at NATO Defence College, Rome.

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Policy brief

Changing perceptions of strategic risks in the Asia-Pacific – the Australian, Japanese, and South Korean perspectives

The European Leadership Network (ELN) with the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) have worked together on three reports that analyse the changing nature of the strategic risks landscape in the Asia-Pacific. These reports look into how these changes affect the non-proliferation regime, and come from the Australian, Japanese and South Korean perspectives. Full report details within the article.