The WHO; “mask diplomacy”; DFAT & Covid-19.

In Argentina, both sides of the political spectrum have struggled with economic stagnation and an increasing debt burden.  After a brief stint of economic liberalism, citizens  have decided Peronist Alberto Fernandez is the most suitable candidate to rescue the country from its economic woes.

Sino-US strategic competition is intensifying. The US's great power management strategy will continue to depend on its alliance with Japan to constructively shape China as a responsible power that respects international rules and norms.

Counterinsurgency has become a tool for interventions of one state to “rescue” another state from insurgency. In this book, Miles Kitts fuses two major conventional theories of counterinsurgency to create a new comprehensive approach that can inform future counterinsurgency actions.

Global health issues are once again high on the international agenda. Assoc. Prof. Adam Kamradt-Scott discusses the global context of health security policy and international efforts to tackle health crises.

With Gillian’s exclusive insight into the UN Refugee agency, this episode sheds light on the interplay between current refugee crises and the COVID-19 global pandemic.

The democracies of the developed world are in the grip of a crisis. The price of failure to embrace institutional reform may be democracy itself.

Most people have heard about quantum computing and know that it will be revolutionary. Few people, even government representatives, would be able to say exactly why.

Brazil is holding anti-lockdown protests. Deemed by many to be the “Trump of the Tropics,” Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro continues downplaying the imminent threat of the coronavirus pandemic. 

Widespread lockdowns have disrupted business models and increased chance arrests. Government responses to COVID-19 are affecting organised crime as much as anyone else.