The Post-Cold War Order: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back Dr Laurens J. Visser 26 November 2015 The conflict in Syria has demonstrated that the internationalist victory promised at the end of the Cold War has yet to fully materialise […] Read More
The War on Islamic State After Paris: a Strategy Remaining and Expanding Dr Haroro Ingram 19 November 2015 To borrow from Islamic State’s slogan, the strategy of Western powers and their allies to defeat Islamic State […] Read More
Should the War Powers be the Captain's pick? 22 October 2015 At Glover Cottages on Tuesday 20 October, former diplomat and author Dr Alison Broinowski discussed Australia’s tendency to participate in America’s wars, and […] Read More
The Arabs at War in Afghanistan Dr. Laurens J. Visser 06 October 2015 Mustafa Hamid and Leah Farrall brush aside the inconsistencies that illustrate the myth of jihad in order to clarify the reality of the […] Read More
Letter from Washington: the Xi–Obama Summit, No Lovefest Dr Claude Rakisits 01 October 2015 This was never going to be an easy meeting between the leaders of one of the oldest democracies and the world’s largest dictatorship. […] Read More
Trilateral Dialogue: AIIA, JIIA and ICWA 30 September 2015 A bilateral dialogue was held between the Australian Institute of International Affairs and the Indian Council of World Affairs on Tuesday 15th September […] Read More
Seminar: Legislating Reform of the War Powers 22 September 2015 ANU Faculty of Law, Moot Court: 23 October 2015 9.00 – 4.30 Australia urgently needs to change the war powers that allow troops […] Read More
Don’t Look Away From Aylan Kurdi’s Image 10 September 2015 Last week, an image of a drowned refugee child became an icon before our eyes. Of all the photographs of this crisis, why […] Read More
Northern Lights: the Positive Policy Example of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway 08 September 2015 At the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on Saturday 5 September 2015, Naomi Klein spoke to a full concert […] Read More
Seventy Years After Hiroshima, Who Was Australian War Correspondent Wilfred Burchett? 05 September 2015 Seventy years ago, on September 5, 1945, Wilfred Burchett’s report on the aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic bombing […] Read More
From Brinksmanship to Bargain: the Two Koreas Avoid War 04 September 2015 How the “adults in the room” avoided a crisis spiralling out of control. In the days following the latest intra-Korean episode of brinksmanship […] Read More