Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop spoke at Chatham House this week about the challenges Australia faces in defending the rules-based liberal international order in a period of global instability. The Foreign Policy White Paper shows how Australia might respond.

There is a broad consensus in the Western world that the rules-based order that has governed international relations for the past 70 years is under unprecedented strain. Where are the most serious threats coming from? How fundamental are they and how can they be dealt with?

This year International Women’s Day will be noticed. The unreported constant that shapes international politics—the politics of gender—is an overt item on the agenda rather than a terse undercurrent.

Despite the end of the Cold War, 2017 was proof that the threat of nuclear weapons persists. However, when nuclear threats need not be blared through microphones over Red Square, but merely lobbed in 140 character installments over Twitter, it seems arms control procedures have failed to keep up.

In October, Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop MP told the 2017 AIIA National Conference that the Australian government was engineering its foreign […]

Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong told the 2017 AIIA National Conference in October that Australia needed to shift its foreign policy focus to engage with the changing world order. 

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Territorial Asylum. While the declaration never became a treaty or convention, its possibilities are still worth pursuing.

Australia's prosperity depends heavily on strengthening its trade and investment globally and the recent convergence of the two has required serious changes at Austrade.

The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar continues to escalate and the international community has yet to decide on an effective response.

The recently reinstated US Global Gag Rule will have far-reaching consequences for women’s health and gender equality. The ongoing imbalance prevents effective long-term solutions to […]