Threat or Threatened? Russian Foreign Policy in the Era of NATO Expansion 03 May 2018 Vladimir Putin’s portrayal in the Western media often resembles that of a comic book villain. The Russian President […] Read More
What North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Mean for Australian National Security 03 May 2018 North Korea may have dazzled the world with diplomatic overtures and brightly dressed cheerleaders at the 2018 Pyeongchang […] Read More
Looking Into: Jihadists Under One Flag? 03 May 2018 The Syrian civil war is raging on into its seventh bloody year, with thousands of civilians either killed or displaced as numerous internal […] Read More
AIIA and the ASEAN-Australia Summit 03 May 2018 The ASEAN summit hosted by Australia in Sydney on 16 and 17 March provided the Institute with a number of opportunities to support […] Read More
EU-Australia Leadership Forum seeks participation from Emerging Leaders 03 May 2018 The EU-Australia Leadership Forum is looking for promising young leaders from Australia and the EU to take part […] Read More
Iran’s Nukes Redux By Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur FAIIA 02 May 2018 It takes chutzpah for a country that has an unacknowledged nuclear arsenal to point the finger at another country for clandestine nuclear activities and demand military action to halt them. Read More
How Wars End By Professor Damien Kingsbury and Richard Iron CMG OBE 02 May 2018 War remains common in the modern world and its devastating effects demand that we try to end it. Why do some negotiations fail and what conditions are required to end war? Read More
Cambridge Analytica – The True Implications for the Future of Democracy Michael Nguyen 30 April 2018 As Cambridge Analytica is placed under the spotlight concern and attention has been focused largely on the issues of privacy. However, the true core of the issue is not that a third party held the private data of millions of individuals, but that they created a psychological warfare weapon capable of potentially threatening democracy. Read More
Has India Blinked? By Aakriti Bachhawat 30 April 2018 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement that he plans to visit China for an informal summit with President Xi Jinping is part of a reset strategy that New Delhi has embarked upon in recent months. Read More
A Locked Closet: LGBTI Rights Around the World By Professor Dennis Altman AM 26 April 2018 In the euphoria that greeted the legislation of same sex marriage in Australia last year, it was easy to forget that for most gay people in the world this is an unobtainable dream. Read More
What Prospects for a Trump-Kim Deal? By Emeritus Professor James Cotton FAIIA 26 April 2018 Assuming that the Trump-Kim summit goes ahead, Secretary of State-designate Mike Pompeo having prepared the ground, and that reports are correct that President Trump wants a comprehensive ‘deal’, what happens then? Read More