Despite the early June military successes by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the group will neither pose a fatal […]

Expert Panel-Fellows of the AIIA Hilary Charlesworth FAIIA-Professor, ANU; Director of Centre for International Governance and Justice Jocelyn Chey AM FAIIA-Visiting Professor, University […]

Summary Vietnam is struggling with how to respond to maritime expansion by China and the resulting tensions in the South China Sea. Some […]

Mounting tensions between Vietnam and China show that the South China Sea continues to be a security hotspot following China’s renewed assertiveness in the region. […]

The trial and conviction of Australian journalist Peter Greste and two of his al-Jazeera colleagues has attracted world wide media coverage as it […]

Alliance 21, in partnership with the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, recently hosted an event on the ‘US-Australia: The Alliance […]

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has recently denied that the lightning advance of ISIS could be blamed on the 2003 invasion of […]

That was the stark assessment of Amnesty International’s global head, Salil Shetty, launching a new global campaign by […]

Over the long-term the benefits for Australia developing an offensive cyber capability outweigh the costs. Australia should develop the capacity to utilise technological […]

A high-profile defamation case against a popular online media publication suggests that journalistic freedoms are coming under increased government pressure, but the proceedings […]