The Political and Ethno-Religious Challenges in Malaysia Today 03 March 2015 Malaysia boasts one of Southeast Asia’s most vibrant economies, the result of decades of industrial growth and political […] Read More Play
PM’s Lightning Trip Across “The Ditch” Alexia Jablonski 03 March 2015 Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s first official visit to New Zealand on 27 February 2015 involved economic and national security talks with New Zealand […] Read More
Modi’s BJP No Longer Invincible Purnendra Jain and Peter Mayer 03 March 2015 The tale of the recent February Delhi assembly elections shows how quickly political fortunes can decline. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party […] Read More
France, Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century 1900-1940: A Reappraisal By Emeritus Professor James Cotton FAIIA 02 March 2015 This book is an original and stimulating contribution to two literatures that generally subsist apart; the literature of […] Read More
Indonesia and Australia: Appealing to Jakarta’s strengths Greta Nabbs-Keller 28 February 2015 Joko Widodo was elected on the policy platform of defending Indonesia’s political sovereignty and territorial integrity, with a good dose of economic nationalism […] Read More
Who Will Bell the Nuclear Cat? By Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur FAIIA 27 February 2015 The global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation agenda has stalled. Yet disarmament is the only way to fully eliminate nuclear weapons risk. Five years […] Read More
China's Diplomacy for the Information Age- A Presentation by Prof Greg Austin 26 February 2015 Based on his new book, Cyber Policy in China (Cambridge: Polity 2014), which was launched at the Brookings […] Read More Play
Talking a Bird Down From a Tree: a Conversation with Chee Soon Juan John Keane 26 February 2015 Singapore is facing political uncertainty with the dominating figure of Lee Kuan Yew in hospital on life support and his […] Read More
The Economic Reform Path Greece Must Now Follow Partha Gangopadhyay 26 February 2015 The world may have heaved a sigh of relief over Greece’s last minute debt deal, but in Greece the conditional four-month extension is […] Read More
Is PNG Heading for a Crisis? Stephen Howes 25 February 2015 Last year in Papua New Guinea was eventful, marked by a series of controversial government decisions. In March, the government decided to take […] Read More
The Complexity of Re-uniting the Koreas 25 February 2015 On Tuesday evening, 24 February, Colin Chapman, immediate past president of AIIA NSW, gave us his impressions of the prospects of a re-united […] Read More