Does Brexit Mean the Break-up of Britain? By Dr Ben Wellings 16 November 2016 One of the paradoxes of Brexit is that what its supporters advocated as a strengthening of British sovereignty weakened the multi-national fabric of […] 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
Turkish Coup 07 September 2016 Dr Murat Yurtbilir lectures on Turkish politics and history at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the ANU. On Tuesday 6 […] Read More
Xi is The Man: Corruption Crackdown and Centralisation By Cormac Power 25 July 2016 For an increasingly globalised and connected economy, open and transparent markets are key to sustained economic growth. Yet, it is this transparency that […] Read More
Tobacco: Investor-State Claim Up in Smoke By Marina Kofman 16 June 2016 The unanimous decision in Australia’s favour for the country’s first and only investor-state claim—related to tobacco plain packaging legislation—was published on 17 May […] Read More
Impeachment and the Quagmire of Political Corruption in Brazil By Dr Sean Burges and Dr Fabricio Chagas Bastos 21 April 2016 The vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff means that the political situation in Brazil is not going to improve any […] Read More
The Dutch Referendum on EU-Ukraine Treaty Doesn't Signal a Step Towards Nexit By Dr Hans Vollaard 11 April 2016 The European Union’s treaty with Ukraine was rebuffed by Dutch voters on April 6 with over 60% rejecting […] Read More
And They all Came Tumbling Down: Brazil’s Spiralling Political Corruption Scandal By Dr Fabricio Chagas Bastos and Dr Sean Burges 18 March 2016 Following tense protests on 13 March, Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula was named current President Dilma Rousseff’s […] Read More
And They all Came Tumbling Down: Brazil’s Spiralling Political Corruption Scandal 18 March 2016 Following tense protests on 13 March, Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula was named current President Dilma Rousseff’s […] Read More
Iran's Elections: A Shift of Support to Reformists and Moderates By Ian Dudgeon 10 March 2016 Although the outcome of Iran’s parliamentary elections held on 26 February will not be finalised until later next month, […] Read More
It’s the Enrichment, Stupid: South Australia and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle By Associate Professor Maria Rost Rublee 03 March 2016 The South Australian Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission recently released a report outlining its tentative findings to little […] Read More