An evening with the interns 01 December 2016 An evening with the Interns Our five current interns gave diverting and relevant valedictory addresses to an engaged audience at Glover Cottages on […] Read More
What Next for Asia-Pacific Trade? By Alan Oxley 29 November 2016 The annual APEC Summit concluded in Lima last week. It reflected an ongoing sentiment among APEC economies for building growth through regional free […] Read More
MIKTA: An Acronym in Search of Meaning By Melissa Conley Tyler FAIIA 25 November 2016 Australia is hosting the 8th MIKTA Foreign Ministers meeting with Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop welcoming her counterparts from Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey […] Read More
Time for a Universal Basic Income? By Pedro Sousa 25 November 2016 The concept of a universal basic income has received renewed attention in 2016. The general frustration with mainstream politics and the finance sector—manifested […] Read More
Dr Chiara De Lazzari 24 November 2016 Dr Chiara De Lazzari holds a PhD in Politics from Swinburne University. Her areas of interest include migration, transnational politics and citizenship rights. […] Read More
What Makes Successful Diplomacy By Geoffrey Miller AO FAIIA 20 November 2016 Henry Kissinger once said that diplomacy isn’t like engineering—solving problems as they present themselves, moving on to the next one—but more like gardening: […] Read More
Reading Room: Navigating the New International Disorder By Allan Gyngell AO FAIIA 20 November 2016 Since 1950 the Australian Institute of International Affairs has been publishing what its first editors, Gordon Greenwood and Norman Harper, described as “a […] Read More
Can President Trump Make America Great Again? 18 November 2016 Expert Panel-Fellows of the AIIA Hilary Charlesworth FAIIA-Professor, ANU; Director of Centre for International Governance and Justice Jocelyn Chey AM FAIIA-Visiting Professor, University […] Read More
The Politics of Post-Mosul Iraq By Damian Doyle 15 November 2016 There is concern about the direction of the battle to retake Mosul after reports this week from Human Rights Watch that Kurdish Peshmerga […] Read More
Tensions Erupt in Jakarta By Noor Huda Ismail 09 November 2016 Jakarta saw its biggest protest in years last Friday, prompting President Joko Widodo to cancel his planned visit to Australia. Some Western media report […] Read More
The US Election and the Second Gilded Age By Jeffrey Bleich 03 November 2016 Over the past 30 years a perfect storm has formed to produce a US election in which a large proportion of the American […] Read More