With the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade currently conducting a Soft Power Review, what is the potential for cultural diplomacy?

It is crucial to understand the radical nature of Xi’s project to understand a changing China. This first in a three-part series looks at political reform.

Indonesia's accelerating economic prosperity will see the country poised to take a leading role in the Indo-Pacific region. It's time for Australia to refocus its Indonesia priorities.

Australia's region is facing mounting maritime tensions. This tells us much about the fraying of international order and the capacity of international law to deal with maritime disputes.

Top of the agenda at this week’s International Whaling Commission meeting will be Japan’s proposal to resume commercial whaling. Will Japan achieve its Way Forward or is it on the way out?

In a week that saw journalists arrested and convicted of espionage, including in Myanmar and Cambodia, this episode of AIIA VIC's Dyason House podcast discusses the challenges of reporting abroad. 

It is no exaggeration to say that Christianity is in nearly existential crisis in the West. It is perverse that the West is trending atheist as the rest of the world is trending religious.

As Christianity continues to decline, we should focus on how we can develop a society that respects all points of view.

The roots of present-day Islamist terrorism lie in the puritanical ideology of Wahhabism. Its influence on political Islam leaves little room for pluralistic interpretations.    

Sweden is recovering after a very tense election night. The centre-right and the centre-left blocs secured very similar shares of the vote, but neither have come away with quite enough leverage to form government alone.