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  • 3 Mar 2025
    • Terrorism
    • Sex and Gender
    • Technology
    • Transnational Challenges
    • Emerging Threats

    The hidden national security threat: Misogynistic extremism

    Emma Gerhardy
    Hate against women is often the precursor to radicalisation and mass violence. It’s time to address the connection.
  • 27 Feb 2025
    • Environment
    • Sustainability
    • Transnational Challenges

    Is it too late for the pangolin?

    Mohd. Yunus
    The race to save the world’s most trafficked creature is more of a national security challenge than solely a conservation question.
  • 26 Feb 2025
    • Technology
    • Transnational Challenges

    Social media: A place that truth forgot

    Selwyn Parker
    Of all the online sources of misinformation and abuse, there are some top offenders.
  • 26 Feb 2025
    • Terrorism
    • Transnational Challenges

    Extremism from the mainstream

    James Paterson
    It is becoming more difficult and less predictable to identify the ideological bases motivating violent action.
  • 16 Jan 2025
    • Transnational Challenges
    • Pacific Islands

    A looming police shortage in the Pacific: Drug use can cripple a male workforce

    Melissa Jardine
    The labour and public health consequences from expanding drugs surge in the region must be acted upon.
  • 4 Dec 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Transnational Challenges
    • Pacific Islands

    “Narco-subs” in the Pacific demonstrates need for effective maritime security cooperation

    Henrietta McNeill , Genevieve Quirk
    Criminals are always looking for an edge. Listening to what the Pacific needs and coordinating maritime security responses will help blunt the threat.
  • 4 Dec 2024
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Global Issues
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Transnational Challenges

    Australia’s chance to align global efforts against “hostage diplomacy”

    Sean Turnell
    A new senate report has set out sensible recommendations for a fresh approach on wrongful detention of Australians overseas.
  • 29 Oct 2024
    • Transnational Challenges
    • Pacific Islands

    Pacific Islands need stronger corrections systems to address transnational and organised crime

    Danielle Watson
    Rehabilitation is too often a forgotten arena in regional efforts.
  • 27 Sep 2024
    • Australia
    • Emerging Threats
    • Coronavirus
    • Transnational Challenges
    • United Nations

    Is the world ready for its next big health crisis?

    Rebecca Wakerman Powell
    Antimicrobial resistance will test global responses to health security, just as Covid-19 did.
  • 6 Sep 2024
    • Australia
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • International law
    • Transnational Challenges

    Russian sanctions: Why has Australia stayed quiet on reparations?

    Anton Moiseienko
    With strong rule of law credentials and expertise, Canberra should use its advantage in responses to war.
  • 27 Aug 2024
    • Diplomacy
    • Global Issues
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Transnational Challenges

    Hostage diplomacy: Fresh ideas to end a modern blight

    Sean Turnell
    A new Australian senate inquiry into the practice of imprisonment for leverage offer a chance to learn from international experience.
  • 26 Aug 2024
    • Transnational Challenges
    • Pacific Islands
    • Tonga

    The down-low on deportations and drugs in Tonga

    Henrietta McNeill
    The practice by Australia of sending criminals back to their home country can pose a risk to regional security without the proper reintegration support.
  • 1 Aug 2024
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Diplomacy
    • Transnational Challenges

    Smuggling budgies? Australia’s fight against wildlife trafficking

    David M. Andrews
    Masters of soft diplomacy and flag-bearers for Aussie tourism, our native animals need all the protection they can get.
  • 18 Jun 2024
    • Asia
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Thailand
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability
    • Transnational Challenges

    The carbon sinks of Southeast Asia are in trouble

    Mohd. Yunus
    Global demand for palm oil and paper is threatening a fragile peatland ecosystem. International cooperation is needed now.
  • 17 Apr 2024
    • Asean
    • Southeast Asia
    • Human rights
    • Migration
    • Transnational Challenges

    Invisible victims: How counter-trafficking efforts leave people with disability behind

    Elisabeth Jackson
    It is often those who should be responsible for protecting people with disabilities who exploit them.
  • 12 Mar 2024
    • China
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australian Public Opinion
    • Multiculturalism
    • Technology
    • Transnational Challenges
    • Public Opinion
    • Public Opinion Polling

    Chinese social media and the 2025 Australian federal election

    Fan Yang , Robbie Fordyce , Luke Heemsbergen
    Those intent on spreading political misinformation are finding ways around strict foreign interference rules.
  • 2 Feb 2024
    • Global Issues
    • Transnational Challenges
    • Pacific Islands

    Pacific Islands: Spillover threats from transnational organised crime

    Danielle Watson , Jay Caldwell
    Facing a policing squeeze in Southeast Asia, criminal networks will increasingly shift their operations to regions of perceived weakness.
  • 4 Dec 2023
    • Global Issues
    • Climate change
    • International law
    • Transnational Challenges
    • United Nations

    Learning to live in a world without progress

    Mark Beeson
    Optimistic about the trajectory of human society? That’s brave.
  • 15 Nov 2023
    • Human rights
    • Migration
    • Technology
    • Transnational Challenges

    Human trafficking: Harnessing technology to help those most vulnerable

    Cate Sumner
    Delivering legal services to victims often means overcoming barriers in language, information and distance.
  • 6 Nov 2023
    • Middle East Conflict
    • Transnational Challenges
    • Middle East
    • Israel

    Gaza and re-imagining international order

    Bobo Lo
    The events of the past month show that the usual recipes for global problem-solving are no longer fit for purpose.
  • 16 Oct 2023
    • Emerging Threats
    • Coronavirus
    • Technology
    • Transnational Challenges

    Managing risk: Pandemics and plagues in the age of AI

    David Heslop , Joel Keep
    An Australian-initiated international forum could hold the key to controlling unconventional weapons in the age of generative AI.
  • 10 Oct 2023
    • Southeast Asia
    • Human rights
    • Transnational Challenges
    • United Nations

    Online scams in Southeast Asia create double victims: those targeted and those forced to carry them out

    Jitsiree Thongnoi
    There are those deceived by scams, and those coerced into crime.
  • 2 Oct 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Singapore
    • South China Sea
    • Coronavirus
    • International law
    • Transnational Challenges

    The surprising link between piracy and Covid-19

    Jade Lindley , Dhiyaul Aulia Huda
    Poverty, institutional incapacity and budget cuts fuelled a surge in pandemic piracy. The lessons are many.
  • 18 Jul 2023
    • European Union
    • Digital Disruption
    • International law
    • Technology
    • Transnational Challenges

    Regulating artificial intelligence: How the EU just got us closer

    Melinda Rankin
    In these times of high-tech angst, a new draft Act passed in the European Parliament sets the scene for the future of AI.
  • 11 Jul 2023
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • Climate change
    • Coronavirus
    • Digital Disruption
    • Environment
    • Technology
    • Transnational Challenges

    Existential risk is a whole-of-society challenge

    Tom Barber
    From climate change and pandemics to nuclear war and extinction by AI, collective action will be imperative.
  • 27 Jun 2023
    • India
    • India's Economy
    • Maldives
    • Australia and Asia
    • Climate change
    • Transnational Challenges

    To balance the Quad equation, India and Australia must drive an “Indo” focus

    Radhey Tambi
    The Bay of Bengal is an emerging hotspot for non-traditional security challenges that cross the entire region.
  • 9 Feb 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Migration
    • Transnational Challenges

    Australia and Indonesia can lead a response to refugee crisis in the region

    Andrew Hudson
    Shared information will help with rescue efforts and to pursue the leaders in people smuggling outfits.
  • 13 Dec 2022
    • Europe
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Trade
    • Global Issues
    • Climate change
    • Coronavirus
    • Environment
    • Transnational Challenges
    • The Americas

    2022: A global turning point

    Ian Hill
    Looking at trends and contours that have coalesced this year to make international politics more contested and unpredictable.
  • 5 Dec 2022
    • Al Qaeda
    • Cyber Security
    • Islamic State
    • Terrorism
    • Transnational Challenges

    Why outsourcing counter-terrorism online won’t work in future

    David Wells
    Policing online hate speech currently falls into a murky space shared between governments and big tech.
  • 15 Sep 2022
    • Global Economy
    • IMF
    • Transnational Challenges

    Digital finance makes international cooperation even more important

    Jenny Gordon
    In a world without physical cash, differing standards for digital currencies risk creating exclusionary trade blocs.
  • 12 Sep 2022
    • Terrorism
    • Transnational Challenges
    • Review

    Understanding global right-wing extremism

    William Allchorn
    Tackling the threat first means appreciating the scope, appeal and transnational character of the narratives driving it.

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