ABC Radio National is creating some nice videos to accompany their interviews, and here's a recent one with Francis Fukuyama and John Keane from the University of Sydney, talking about democracy in an age in which people seemingly have no faith that real change can emerge from political parties.

The SMH rounds up international reaction to Tony Abbott's election victory.

 Mike Callaghan is Director of the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre.

Part 1 of this profile of Labor's prospective new defence minister Mike Kelly MP and shadow Defence Minister Senator David Johnston appeared yesterday.

Yesterday afternoon, less than two days before Australia goes to the polls, the Liberal-National Coalition released its official foreign policy stat

Nicholas Stuart is right to say that there are no votes in foreign and defence policy, hence these two areas rarely get debated during election campaigns (he might have a

The Liberal-National Coalition's decision to cut growth in foreign aid spending by $4.5 billion over the forward estimates has created a last-minute election debat

Michael Green is Senior Vice President for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, a Professor at Georgetown University and a non-resident fellow at the Lowy Institute.

Danielle Rajendram is a Lowy Institute research associate. Her work focuses on Indian foreign and domestic policy, India-China relations and Asian security.

Simon Palombi, a former Lowy Institute Research Associate, responds to Nick Bryant's piece about Australia's UN Security Council presidency:

Oddly for a party that is presumably proud of its record in government, the Australian Labor Party seems to be eschewing a formal defence policy statement at this election.

Before Australia heads to the polls on Saturday, Melissa Park, Minister for International Development, writes on 'Why Labor is the best choice for foreign aid'.

Via Fallows, here's a sneak peek at Errol Morris' (The Fog of War) new documentary about the Iraq war, Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsf

The Lowy Institute's Reports From a Turbulent Decade, our tenth anniversary anthology, is now available in bookshops and online.

Tomorrow at 31 Bligh St, former Fairfax China correspondent John Garnaut will speak with East Asia Program Director Linda Jakobson to discuss the future of the Communist Par

Daniel Flitton is senior correspondent for The Age covering foreign affairs and politics.

At a different time, Tony Abbott's cowboys-and-Indians reductionism of the Syria crisis ('It's not goodies versus baddies, it's baddies versus baddies') might hav

In case anyone needed reminding, 2013 is an election year and the 2013 Lowy Institute Poll included an election-related question, asking Australian adults which of the two major political parties they

Bringing together the best longer Interpreter articles you were too busy to read this week.

The Guardian thinks the House of Commons vote against strikes 'raises the prospect of a redefinition of the Anglo-American "special relationship"'.

It sounds as if neither party landed a knockout blow at the debate held in Canberra yesterday between Shadow Defence Minister Senator David Johnston and Minister for Defence Materiel Mike Kelly.

Melissa Conley Tyler is National Executive Director of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Almog Elijis is an AIIA intern. Be careful what you wish for in international affairs.