Desmond Ball
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Desmond Ball |
| GIVEN NAMES | Desmond |
| FAMILY NAME | Ball |
| SIGNATURE | BALL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Asia's New Geopolitics: Military Power and Regional Order
US Signals Intelligence (Sigint) Activities in Japan 1945 - 2015: A Visual Guide
Due to government secrecy, our citizens are often ignorant of the fact that our garrisons encircle the planet. This vast network of American bases on every continent except Antarctica actually constitutes a new form of empire - an empire of bases
Power and International Relations: Essays in Honour of Coral Bell
Coral Mary Bell AO, who died in 2012, was one of the world’s foremost academic experts on international relations, crisis management and alliance diplomacy. This collection of essays by more than a dozen of her friends and colleagues is intended to honour her life and examine her ideas and, through them, her legacy.
Can a Sino-Japanese War Be Controlled
In a crisis, a limited exchange of fire could escalate into a wider conflict. We have no precedent to suggest how dangerous it might become
Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military and Violence in East Timor
The terror campaign by pro-Indonesian armed groups before, during, and after East Timor's independence referendum in 1999 was a blatant challenge to the international community as many of the acts of murder, political intimidation, destruction, and mass deportation took place before the eyes of the world. Yet still the ultimate responsibility has been denied and obscured. Masters of Terror provides an authoritative analysis and documentation of t…
Track 2 Security Dialogue in the Asia-Pacific: Reflections and Future Directions
This article critically reviews the literature on Track 2 security dialogue in the Asia‐Pacific and suggests a number of possible avenues for further research. From almost a standing start, Track 2 security dialogue in this part of the world has burgeoned over the past decade and a half. As these institutions and activities have grown, so too has a body of scholarship grown around them which has striven to stay abreast of them and – at least in t…
Robert O'Neill: A strategic career
Bob O'Neill rose to the pinnacle of his chosen profession—the academic study of arguably the most critical subject of public policy, that of war and peace, strategy and defence policy. His route to
The strategic essence
The US-Australia alliance effectively began in December 1941, when, just two weeks after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the outbreak of the war in the Pacific, and more than a month before the fall of Singapore, Prime Minister John Curtin declared that: 'Without inhibitions of any kind, I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom'. From M…
The strategic essence
Silent witness: Australian intelligence and East Timor
The events in East Timor leading up to and immediately following the vote for independence from Indonesia in September 1999, and the attendant breach in Australian-Indonesian relations, posed the greatest challenge to the Australian intelligence agencies and the national security policymaking organization in more than a quarter of a century. On the whole, the intelligence agencies performed very well, producing timely, accurate and informative re…
Silent witness: Australian intelligence and East Timor
The events in East Timor leading up to and immediately following the vote for independence from Indonesia in September 1999, and the attendant breach in Australian-Indonesian relations, posed the greatest challenge to the Australian intelligence agencies
Maintaining the Strategic Edge: The Defence of Australia in 2015
The recent and continuing changes in Southeast Asia - the economic calamity in 1997-98, the overthrow of President Soeharto's New Order and the tenuous establishment of democracy, and the horrific circumstances of East Timor's independence - have disturbed Australia's security situation more seriously than anything since the 1960s, when Australia was at war (albeit covertly) with Indonesia in Borneo and had a task force in Vietnam. The rate of te…
The Transformation of Security in the Asia-Pacific Region
Australian Journal of International Affairs- volume not only analyses intellectually the transformation of security in the region, but its structure, content, choice of contributors and the discourse in shich they engage nicely illustrate some of the problems facing such a transformation. Australia and World Affairs- very competent and orginal analyses of the wealth of security problems facing Asia-Pacific... a useful book which brings together i…
A regional arms race
(1995). A regional arms race? Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 18, The Transformation of Security in the Asia/Pacific Region, pp. 147-174
A New Era in Confidence Building
Arms and Affluence: Military Acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific Region
Strategic Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region
This article is based on a paper prepared for a Workshop on Comparative Perceptions of National Security, organized by the Australia-Asian Perceptions Project, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA), Canberra, 30 November–4 December 1992. Notes This article is based on a paper prepared for a Workshop on Comparative Perceptions of National Security, organized by the Australia-Asian Perceptions Project, Academy of the Social Sciences in…
Strange Neighbours: The Australia-Indonesia Relationship
Australia's relations with Indonesia, Senator Gareth Evans Australia and Indonesia - towards a more positive relationship, Harry Tjan Silalahi major-power influences on the Southeast Asian region - an Australian view, Tony Kevin implications of recent changes in the world economy, Djisman Simandjuntak developments and challenges in the South Pacific, Jusuf Wanandi Australia, Indonesia and stability in the South Pacific, David Hegarty the Vietname…
The military build‐up in Asia‐Pacific
Improving Communications Links between Moscow and Washington
The Direct Communications Link (DCL) between Moscow and Washington, established in 1963 and commonly known as the `hot-line', is supposed to provide a continuous communications link between US and Soviet National Command Authorities in both crises and war. This article describes the principal rationales for the DCL (crisis management, escalation control and war termination) and the facilities and systems which presently constitute the link. It ar…
Revising the Siop: Taking War-Fighting to Dangerous Extremes
Controlling Theatre Nuclear War
Over the past decade, both official defence establishments and independent strategic analysts have devoted increasing attention to the command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) systems which support the US and Soviet strategic nuclear forces, and to the role of these systems in crises and in strategic nuclear war-fighting. In particular, specific consideration has been given to such critical issues as the extent to which current str…
Choosing Targets for Nuclear Weapons
The Ties That Bind: Intelligence Cooperation between the Ukusa Countries: The United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Strategic Nuclear Targeting
A New Era in Confidence Building
Silent witness: Australian intelligence and East Timor
The events in East Timor leading up to and immediately following the vote for independence from Indonesia in September 1999, and the attendant breach in Australian-Indonesian relations, posed the greatest challenge to the Australian intelligence agencies
Arms and Affluence: Military Acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific Region
Strategic Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region
This article is based on a paper prepared for a Workshop on Comparative Perceptions of National Security, organized by the Australia-Asian Perceptions Project, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA), Canberra, 30 November–4 December 1992. Notes This article is based on a paper prepared for a Workshop on Comparative Perceptions of National Security, organized by the Australia-Asian Perceptions Project, Academy of the Social Sciences in…
Strategic Nuclear Targeting
U.S. Strategic Forces: How Would They Be Used
The Ties That Bind: Intelligence Cooperation between the Ukusa Countries: The United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
The military build‐up in Asia‐Pacific
Revising the Siop: Taking War-Fighting to Dangerous Extremes
The strategic essence
The US-Australia alliance effectively began in December 1941, when, just two weeks after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the outbreak of the war in the Pacific, and more than a month before the fall of Singapore, Prime Minister John Curtin declared that: 'Without inhibitions of any kind, I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom'. From M…
The Transformation of Security in the Asia-Pacific Region
Australian Journal of International Affairs- volume not only analyses intellectually the transformation of security in the region, but its structure, content, choice of contributors and the discourse in shich they engage nicely illustrate some of the problems facing such a transformation. Australia and World Affairs- very competent and orginal analyses of the wealth of security problems facing Asia-Pacific... a useful book which brings together i…
Nuclear War at Sea
The subject of nuclear warfare at sea, and the difficulties of controlling escalation of conflict at sea, has so far drawn very little attention from the strategic community.' This is despite the fact that more than a third of the nuclear weapons of the U.S. and the Soviet Union are deployed on sea-based platforms; the control of these weapons by central national authorities is physically loosest; and the doctrines and operational procedures asso…
Improving Communications Links between Moscow and Washington
The Direct Communications Link (DCL) between Moscow and Washington, established in 1963 and commonly known as the `hot-line', is supposed to provide a continuous communications link between US and Soviet National Command Authorities in both crises and war. This article describes the principal rationales for the DCL (crisis management, escalation control and war termination) and the facilities and systems which presently constitute the link. It ar…
Australian defence decision‐making: Actors and process
(1979). Australian defence decision‐making: Actors and process. Politics: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 183-197
Track 2 Security Dialogue in the Asia-Pacific: Reflections and Future Directions
This article critically reviews the literature on Track 2 security dialogue in the Asia‐Pacific and suggests a number of possible avenues for further research. From almost a standing start, Track 2 security dialogue in this part of the world has burgeoned over the past decade and a half. As these institutions and activities have grown, so too has a body of scholarship grown around them which has striven to stay abreast of them and – at least in t…
Research note: Soviet ICBM deployment
The Counterforce Potential of American SLBM Systems
SLBM systems have traditionally been seen as counter-value weapons systems, ideally suited to the support of mutual assured destruction and hence of greater international stability. It is the primary contention of this paper that several quite discrete developments are pro viding SLBM systems with a potential, at least under some circumstances, for significant counterforce strategic operations. These developments are partly technical (a combinati…
Silent witness: Australian intelligence and East Timor
The events in East Timor leading up to and immediately following the vote for independence from Indonesia in September 1999, and the attendant breach in Australian-Indonesian relations, posed the greatest challenge to the Australian intelligence agencies and the national security policymaking organization in more than a quarter of a century. On the whole, the intelligence agencies performed very well, producing timely, accurate and informative re…
Controlling Theatre Nuclear War
Over the past decade, both official defence establishments and independent strategic analysts have devoted increasing attention to the command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) systems which support the US and Soviet strategic nuclear forces, and to the role of these systems in crises and in strategic nuclear war-fighting. In particular, specific consideration has been given to such critical issues as the extent to which current str…
"Can Nuclear War Be Controlled?" Adelphi Papers. No. 169
The land‐mobile ICBM system: A proposal
The Counterforce Potential of American SLBM Systems
SLBM systems have traditionally been seen as counter-value weapons systems, ideally suited to the support of mutual assured destruction and hence of greater international stability. It is the primary contention of this paper that several quite discrete developments are pro viding SLBM systems with a potential, at least under some circumstances, for significant counterforce strategic operations. These developments are partly technical (a combinati…
The costs of the cruise missile
Australian defence decision‐making: Actors and process
(1979). Australian defence decision‐making: Actors and process. Politics: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 183-197
The MX basing decision
Research note: Soviet ICBM deployment
Politics and Force Levels: The Strategic Missile Program of the Kennedy Administration
"Can Nuclear War Be Controlled?" Adelphi Papers. No. 169
U.S. Strategic Forces: How Would They Be Used
Soviet Strategic Planning and the Control of Nuclear War
Rethinking Australia's Defence
Nuclear War at Sea
The subject of nuclear warfare at sea, and the difficulties of controlling escalation of conflict at sea, has so far drawn very little attention from the strategic community.' This is despite the fact that more than a third of the nuclear weapons of the U.S. and the Soviet Union are deployed on sea-based platforms; the control of these weapons by central national authorities is physically loosest; and the doctrines and operational procedures asso…
Strategic Nuclear Targeting
Choosing Targets for Nuclear Weapons
The Ties That Bind: Intelligence Cooperation between the Ukusa Countries: The United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Controlling Theatre Nuclear War
Over the past decade, both official defence establishments and independent strategic analysts have devoted increasing attention to the command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) systems which support the US and Soviet strategic nuclear forces, and to the role of these systems in crises and in strategic nuclear war-fighting. In particular, specific consideration has been given to such critical issues as the extent to which current str…
Revising the Siop: Taking War-Fighting to Dangerous Extremes
Improving Communications Links between Moscow and Washington
The Direct Communications Link (DCL) between Moscow and Washington, established in 1963 and commonly known as the `hot-line', is supposed to provide a continuous communications link between US and Soviet National Command Authorities in both crises and war. This article describes the principal rationales for the DCL (crisis management, escalation control and war termination) and the facilities and systems which presently constitute the link. It ar…
The military build‐up in Asia‐Pacific
Arms and Affluence: Military Acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific Region
Strategic Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region
This article is based on a paper prepared for a Workshop on Comparative Perceptions of National Security, organized by the Australia-Asian Perceptions Project, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA), Canberra, 30 November–4 December 1992. Notes This article is based on a paper prepared for a Workshop on Comparative Perceptions of National Security, organized by the Australia-Asian Perceptions Project, Academy of the Social Sciences in…
Strange Neighbours: The Australia-Indonesia Relationship
Australia's relations with Indonesia, Senator Gareth Evans Australia and Indonesia - towards a more positive relationship, Harry Tjan Silalahi major-power influences on the Southeast Asian region - an Australian view, Tony Kevin implications of recent changes in the world economy, Djisman Simandjuntak developments and challenges in the South Pacific, Jusuf Wanandi Australia, Indonesia and stability in the South Pacific, David Hegarty the Vietname…
A New Era in Confidence Building
A regional arms race
(1995). A regional arms race? Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 18, The Transformation of Security in the Asia/Pacific Region, pp. 147-174
The Transformation of Security in the Asia-Pacific Region
Australian Journal of International Affairs- volume not only analyses intellectually the transformation of security in the region, but its structure, content, choice of contributors and the discourse in shich they engage nicely illustrate some of the problems facing such a transformation. Australia and World Affairs- very competent and orginal analyses of the wealth of security problems facing Asia-Pacific... a useful book which brings together i…
Political science (33 works) · Law (15 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (10 works) · Nuclear Issues and Defense (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Military and Defense Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works)