Energising Emerging Economies Dr Abdulaziz Sager 29 August 2014 As a major oil exporter and positive influence on stabilising global energy markets, Saudi Arabia’s role in the G20 is a benevolent one […] Read More
An Interim Report Card on the Modi Government By Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur FAIIA 25 August 2014 Three months into Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Mod’s tenure, how do we assess his record to date? So far he has neither delivered […] Read More
Potential for a Light-Bulb Moment Xu Yi-Chong 22 August 2014 A G20 emphasis on energy infrastructure, reducing impractical subsidies, better technology and instituting new rules will strengthen global energy market resilience, argues Professor […] Read More
Playing the Long Game: the Demise of China’s ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ in the South China Sea Benjamin Schreer 21 August 2014 China continues to play a long game in asserting its territorial claims and hegemonic ambitions in the South […] Read More
Breaking the Deadlocks Wei Min 19 August 2014 The time has come for greater collaboration and dedicated action from all members if the G20 is to fulfil its promise and remain […] Read More
Renewed Military Pact Confirms Increased US Interest in India Ben Pattison 15 August 2014 The affirmation of continued joint India-USA military co-operation by US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel in New Delhi […] Read More
Don’t Blame Islam for Rising Terrorism Threat, Says ASIO Chief Colin Chapman 14 August 2014 An unprecedented number of Australians have sought to take part in the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts, or have sought to support extremists fighting […] Read More
Australia Should Lead on a Global No-First-Use Convention By Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur FAIIA 13 August 2014 If it believes that nuclear weapons no longer pose a catastrophic threat today, current public opinion is seriously mistaken. As geopolitical tensions are […] Read More
AIIA Queensland President's Report for 2013-14 12 August 2014 AIIA Qld President Geoffrey Ewing has delivered his President’s Report for 2013-14. Patronage and Fernberg Lecture The Governor of Queensland and the Queensland […] Read More
Afghanistan's Presidential Elections: Ghani or Abdullah? By Ian Dudgeon 11 August 2014 US Secretary of State, John Kerry, makes a second, unannounced election-related visit to Kabul, as the country awaits the outcome of the recount […] Read More
The End of Consensus Politics in China John Minnich 08 August 2014 Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign is the broadest and deepest effort to purge, reorganize and rectify the Communist Party leadership since the […] Read More