TPP and RCEP: What's Next for Asia-Pacific Trade? By Dr Jeffrey Wilson 17 August 2016 After many years of negotiations, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement was finalised earlier this year. It is the most wide-ranging trade agreement to be […] Read More
UN Secretary-General: The Race So Far By Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur FAIIA 17 August 2016 One of the certainties over who will be the next United Nations secretary-general is that it will not be Kevin Rudd. Despite the perception […] Read More
Australia and China: Committing to an Enduring Partnership By Professor Peter Drysdale AO FAIIA and Zhang Xiaoqiang 17 August 2016 The Australia-China partnership can be a powerful force for the stability and prosperity of the region and for the global system. Nurtured carefully and […] Read More
Dr Maria Tanyag 15 August 2016 Dr Maria Tanyag is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Gender, Peace and Security, Monash University. She is a recipient of […] Read More
Reading Room: Russia's Far East By Chris Farnham 15 August 2016 When most of us think of Russia we think of Moscow, St Petersburg, Crimea and the like; few think of Russia’s Far East […] Read More
Peace, Sex and Violence in Mindanao By Dr Maria Tanyag 15 August 2016 Strong women’s participation in the Mindanao peace process in the Philippines has been hailed as an international success story. However, lasting peace requires […] Read More
How Peaceful is China's Peaceful Rise? By Stjepan Bosnjak 15 August 2016 China’s rhetoric about a peaceful rise is being exposed as hollow as it seeks to use its growing power to challenge the status […] Read More
International Crime 11 August 2016 Dr James Cockayne is a strategist, international lawyer and author, currently head of a global think tank created by the UN General Assembly. […] Read More
Colin Chapman FAIIA 11 August 2016 Colin Chapman is a writer, broadcaster, and public speaker, who specialises in geopolitics, international economics, and global media issues. He is a former […] Read More
Luke Heemsbergen 11 August 2016 Luke Heemsbergen researches how the political and the digital collide at the University of Melbourne. He’s just completed a PhD on Radical Transparency […] Read More
A Trump Victory and the US-Australia Alliance By The Hon Kim Beazley AC FAIIA 10 August 2016 Presidential candidate Donald Trump has trashed the alliance system and the liberal international rules-based order that has underpinned trade and broader global relationships since 1945. […] Read More