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The Fix: Getting a read on China
The Fix: Getting a read on China
We’re asking contributors to put together their own short collected observations like this one – and as always, if you’ve got an idea to pitch for The Interpreter, drop a line…
Empowering women in the Pacific: A collaborative effort to confront online abuse
Empowering women in the Pacific: A collaborative effort to confront online abuse
Technology has brought huge benefits to the Pacific, creating new ways to connect across vast distances. As in other parts of the world, however, it has also brought risks,…
Imagining Trump’s second term
Imagining Trump’s second term
Review: Canada Alone by Kim Richard Nossal (Dundurn, 2023), and Trump’s Australia by Bruce Wolpe (Allen and Unwin, 2023) After 9/11, French newspaper Le Monde turned over its…
The Fix: “Get your kicks…”
The Fix: “Get your kicks…”
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Women in international affairs: beyond glass ceilings to the glass cliff
Women in international affairs: beyond glass ceilings to the glass cliff
This year, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee called for a “paradigm shift” towards the acceleration, innovation, and…
The Fix: Solid rock, fatal bites
The Fix: Solid rock, fatal bites
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The decline of Europe: “Rage, rage, against the dying of the light”
The decline of Europe: “Rage, rage, against the dying of the light”
Book Review: Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Garton Ash (Bodley Head, 2023) A decade or so ago, Timothy Garton Ash might well have envisaged a memoir-cum…
AUKUS: A debate after the fact is still worth having
AUKUS: A debate after the fact is still worth having
Book review: The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace (La Trobe University Press, 2023) When Robert Menzies announced his retirement in January 1966,…
The Fix: All roads lead to the White House
The Fix: All roads lead to the White House
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Plumbing the depths of the former East Germany’s grotesque delusion
Plumbing the depths of the former East Germany’s grotesque delusion
Book review: Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990, by Katja Hoyer (Penguin 2023) Many of us only know the former East Germany (GDR) at second hand, through the eviscerating…