Look Who Made the Top UN Job By Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur FAIIA 06 October 2016 After the sixth round of informal straw polls in the UN Security Council, on 5 October (New York time) all UNSC members came […] Read More
Look Who Made the Top UN Job 06 October 2016 After the sixth round of informal straw polls in the UN Security Council, on 5 October (New York time) all UNSC members came […] Read More
After Paris: life in a changing climate 05 October 2016 Dr Martin Tingley has a PhD from Harvard in Climate Sciences and is a member of a natural perils group in a leading […] Read More
Colombia Votes No: But is all Really Lost? By Dr Alexandra Phelan 05 October 2016 In a surprise outcome, the Colombian population has voted ‘No’ in the 2 October plebiscite to the final peace agreement between the Colombian government […] Read More
Challenges to Australian Cyber Security By David Irvine AO FAIIA 29 September 2016 Cyber warfare represents a growing threat to national security and to how we live our lives. However the response to such threats is still […] Read More
Venezuela: Demise of the Bolivarian Revolution? By Dr Raul Sanchez Urribarri 28 September 2016 Two decades after its beginning, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution is at a critical and uncertain junction. The country is marred by an unprecedented economic […] Read More
IAEA: The UN's Nuclear Watchdog In Need of Care By John Tilemann 26 September 2016 The 168 member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency meet this week in Vienna for their 60th annual General Conference. Since the […] Read More
NATO: Poking the Russian Bear By William Baulch 26 September 2016 The long-running dispute between NATO and Russia over plans to install a ballistic missile defence system in Europe remains on the boil. Presidents […] Read More
Syria: A Changing Balance of Power By Dr Anthony Billingsley 22 September 2016 The Syrian catastrophe staggers on from outrage to outrage reaching, as the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon recently observed, a “new level […] Read More
Reading Room: Theorising the Responsibility to Protect By John Sanderson AC FAIIA 21 September 2016 While the catastrophes of Rwanda, Srebrenica and Kosovo in the 1990s provided the recent focus for the international community’s response to the protection […] Read More
World Leaders Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance By Anna George 19 September 2016 If you are not already concerned about the rise in antimicrobial resistance undermining the world’s precious antibiotics, this week’s discussion at the United […] Read More