As a nation built on immigration, Australia should participate in instruments to enhance international cooperation on human mobility.

The UN Human Rights Council is working towards a convention to end transnational corporations’ impunity for human rights abuses.

Dialogue is needed in international affairs to engage with the other in a common search for truth. Commonality makes dialogue possible while difference makes it essential.

The use of security contractors by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq is influenced by political, organisational, operational and financial factors.

Military covenants try to build civil-military relationships on the foundation of a social contract, but is that true for the Australian Defence Force?

Artificial intelligence is certainly a hot topic at present, unnerving some and exciting others. On Tuesday 7 August, the AIIA was treated to […]

Young people have much to contribute to Australian policy ahead of the Second National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security.

Earlier this month, the World Bank released a major study warning that more than 800 million people reside in areas that by 2050 will become dangerous climate hotspots. As bad as this seems, reports of this kind fail to take full account of the cascading impacts of a warming planet.

David Irvine AO gave the following speech to AIIA ACT in Canberra on the 28 March 2018. His address was titled “The 2017 […]

The Research Committee of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) delighted to announce that the recipients of the AIIA Early Career Research […]

On Tuesday 1st May, Melissa Conley Tyler, National Executive Director of the AIIA appeared on ABC’s Matter of Fact, hosted by Stan Grant. […]