Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 11/2009

Unconventional partners: Australia-India cooperation in reducing nuclear dangers

Amandeep Gill, Rory Medcalf

October 2009

Lowy Institute for International Policy

Abstract

In this Policy Brief, International Security Program Director Rory Medcalf and his Indian co-author Amandeep Gill argue that an innovative partnership between Australia and India would help erode the entrenched blocs that impede progress on nuclear disarmament. Their recommendations include: a leaders' statement; a specialised bilateral dialogue; and practical cooperation on non-proliferation export controls, with Australia promoting Indian involvement in the so-called Australia Group to raise comfort levels between New Delhi and other such arrangements. This publication was produced under the Lowy Institute's partnership with the Nuclear Security project