China's New Map: Should India Retaliate? By Lindsay Hughes 09 July 2014 Chinaʼs new official map of the country can only increase Indiaʼs suspicions about its intentions. While strategists ponder whether India will react to […] Read More
Indonesia: Jokowi Faces Fierce Battle as Presidential Election Looms Andrew Manners 08 July 2014 With the gap closing between Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto, the presidential election on 9 July will be fiercely […] Read More
South Africa: One Strike Ends, Another Begins By Mervyn Piesse 07 July 2014 The five-month long platinum minersʼ strike, the longest and costliest in South African history, has ended. A new strike, however, that began on […] Read More
The Iraq Crisis: What’s Next for the Region? Rohan Worsdell 02 July 2014 Despite the early June military successes by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the group will neither pose a fatal […] Read More
Peter Greste’s Jail Sentence: Just the Tip of the Iceberg Eva Brockschmidt 26 June 2014 The trial and conviction of Australian journalist Peter Greste and two of his al-Jazeera colleagues has attracted world wide media coverage as it […] Read More
The Chutzpah of the Iraq War Neocons and Fellow Travellers By Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur FAIIA 25 June 2014 Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has recently denied that the lightning advance of ISIS could be blamed on the 2003 invasion of […] Read More
“Torture is Not Just Alive and Well. It is Flourishing in Many Parts of the World.” Paris Aristotle AM and Josef Szwarc 24 June 2014 That was the stark assessment of Amnesty International’s global head, Salil Shetty, launching a new global campaign by […] Read More
Freedom of Expression in Malaysia at a Turning Point? By Mervyn Piesse 23 June 2014 A high-profile defamation case against a popular online media publication suggests that journalistic freedoms are coming under increased government pressure, but the proceedings […] Read More
Call for Papers: 22nd International Conference of Europeanists 23 June 2014 “Contradictions: Envisioning European Futures” Paris, France • July 8-10, 2015 Organized by the Council for European Studies In […] Read More
The New Aid Paradigm: Is it new, and what does it do for aid reform? Stephen Howes and Joel Negin 20 June 2014 On 18 June the Government released its new strategy for foreign aid spending. Julie Bishop calls it the […] Read More
Dispelling Four Myths about Sexual Violence in Conflict By Associate Professor Sara E. Davies and Professor Jacqui True 15 June 2014 At the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in London this week a number of myths about sexual violence have been debated […] Read More