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  • 7 Aug 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Global Issues

    Why universities are still at risk for foreign interference

    Brendan Walker-Munro
    Australian universities are vulnerable as open and collaborative institutions. With more sensitive research underway, they are also part of the solution.
  • 4 Aug 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Global Issues
    • Pacific Islands
    • Africa
    • Sex and Gender

    Women belong everywhere and this World Cup proves football can be the great equaliser

    Jessica Collins
    Respect for female athletes “tearing it up on the pitch” must translate into respect off the field, too.
  • 27 Jul 2023
    • Australia
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • Global Issues
    • International law

    Nuclear weapons: “Oppenheimer” won’t make a difference, but Australia can

    Gareth Evans
    The movie missed a chance to galvanise a renewed campaign, to better protect against existential danger than rely on sheer dumb luck.
  • 26 Jul 2023
    • India
    • Australia in the World
    • Global Issues

    Why the Australian Voice referendum matters globally

    Ambika Vishwanath
    Close friends will be watching for an outcome that lives up to the values for which the country professes to stand.
  • 21 Jul 2023
    • Cambodia
    • China
    • Southeast Asia
    • Russia
    • Global Issues
    • Africa

    Who leads the world as longest in charge of their country?

    Daniel Flitton
    Put together a list and you can start to see a pattern.
  • 19 Jul 2023
    • Resource security
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability

    What Norway might learn from Nauru after a massive phosphate find

    Genevieve Donnellon-May
    A handful of countries meet demand for an essential fertiliser ingredient – and geopolitical competition complicates the equation.
  • 15 Jun 2023
    • Asia
    • Global Issues
    • Sex and Gender

    The importance of pride: supporting LGBTQ rights in Asia

    Brenda R. Alegre
    The recent Sydney WorldPride was a milestone moment in connecting a regional and global movement.
  • 25 May 2023
    • Asia
    • Diplomacy
    • G20
    • Global Issues

    Economic diplomacy: Taking cover from the summit war of words

    Greg Earl
    Proliferating regional institutions risk becoming shooting stars, with a long trail of bureaucratic half-lives behind.
  • 23 May 2023
    • Global Issues
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Migration
    • United Nations

    By default not design: the end of the asylum consensus

    Khalid Koser
    Ever since Australia adopted the “Pacific Solution”, norm busting has become the norm.
  • 19 May 2023
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Global Issues
    • United States

    Building a Quad that lasts to the next generation

    Kate Clayton , Eleanor Shiori Hughes
    Joe Biden won’t decide the future of the Quad. But he and the other engaged leaders can help foster it.
  • 8 May 2023
    • Europe
    • Global Issues

    Lessons in sorrow: Serbia needs a gun buyback after mass shootings

    Valentina Pavlovic
    Australia’s example has shown decisive action can galvanise and protect a community in the wake of tragedy.
  • 4 May 2023
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Pacific Islands

    The cost of crime and corruption on Pacific fisheries

    Jade Lindley
    The need for a well-funded response to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing has never been greater.
  • 4 May 2023
    • Global Issues
    • Migration
    • Africa

    Five potential global consequences of Sudan’s escalating conflict

    Aly Verjee
    Even distant Australia could feel knock-on effects of a refugee crisis, gold smuggling and disruption to wheat crops.
  • 2 May 2023
    • Asia
    • South Korea
    • Australia
    • Free Trade
    • Global Issues

    Choosing openness in the international economy

    Andrew Leigh
    As the region seeks to rebound from a global economic downturn, the free flow of goods and services is key.
  • 7 Mar 2023
    • North Korea
    • Global Issues
    • Human rights
    • Review

    Why do we travel to unsettling places?

    Melissa Conley Tyler
    Whether the DMZ or sites of historic atrocities, place carries a connection to remind us of the precariousness of life.
  • 29 Dec 2022
    • China
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Global Issues
    • United States
    • Review

    Pop culture politics: How to Interpret 2022

    Daniel Flitton
    “Soft power” or reputation risk, the cross-over of popular entertainment and global politics is never far from the news.
  • 15 Dec 2022
    • Global Issues
    • Technology

    Allies, algorithms and safety online

    Julie Inman Grant
    Echo chambers of extreme content are a growing concern for governments and regulators around the world.
  • 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.
  • 1 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Global Issues
    • Qatar
    • United States

    Economic diplomacy: Scoring goals outside the stadium

    Greg Earl
    Shifting geopolitics and economics make picking the diplomatic champion from the Qatar World Cup more challenging.
  • 8 Nov 2022
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Global Issues
    • Multilateral Institutions

    COP out: Should Albanese be in Egypt? And what about APEC? G20? EAS?

    Daniel Flitton
    The demands on leaders in global diplomacy have only grown but that hasn’t made negotiations more meaningful.
  • 3 Nov 2022
    • Australia
    • ISIS
    • Global Issues
    • Migration

    Risks and responses repatriating foreign terrorist fighters and families

    Khalid Koser , Lilla Schumicky-Logan
    Australia is bringing home families that lived under Islamic State, and experience overseas offers valuable lessons.
  • 2 Nov 2022
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Global Issues

    Australia must help turn back a regional democratic retreat 

    Kevin Casas-Zamora
    With only half the Indo-Pacific a democracy, a collective approach is needed to bolster critical institutions.
  • 17 Oct 2022
    • Global Issues

    Under pressure: the present and future of international order

    Richard Fontaine
    The order fashioned for the 80 years since the Second World War has been far better than the 30 years before it.
  • 16 Sep 2022
    • Global Issues

    Disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific

    Renee Dodds
    Consulting people with disabilities about their experience and needs is a first step in leading preparations.
  • 27 Jul 2022
    • Japan
    • India
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Global Issues
    • Environment
    • Coronavirus
    • Climate change
    • United States

    The Quad needs a futures focus

    Abhijnan Rej
    A better – and public – understanding is needed of the cascading effects of regional challenges.
  • 9 Jun 2022
    • Global Issues
    • Southeast Asia
    • International law

    Stemming the tide of piracy in Southeast Asia

    Thư Nguyễn Hoàng Anh
    The laws set by the United Nations 40 years ago no longer suit the fight against modern-day crime on the high seas.
  • 3 Jun 2022
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Global food threats: a chicken and egg story

    Vani Swarupa Murali
    “Temporary disruptions” carry a long term risk. But unwinding international supply chains could send farmers backward.
  • 2 Jun 2022
    • Asia
    • Global Issues
    • Diplomacy
    • Australia
    • Human rights

    Knowledge is power: A small investment for a big return

    Mubashar Hasan
    Australia should see that training rights advocates across the region can be an effective means to bolster democracy.
  • 20 Apr 2022
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Russia
    • Sri Lanka
    • Ukraine

    Russia-Ukraine: It always comes down to food

    Vani Swarupa Murali
    War in eastern Europe is devastating the supply of staple goods to distant regions that can least afford it.
  • 25 Mar 2022
    • Global Issues
    • Climate change

    The logistical challenge of responding to disaster

    Lina Gong
    Climate change will not only make for more frequent emergencies – it will change how and from where to provide relief.
  • 10 Mar 2022
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Australia

    Economic diplomacy: Building back better with frenemies after Ukraine

    Greg Earl
    Foreign policy concepts are subtly infiltrating Australia’s federal election campaign in the shadow of an invasion.
  • 7 Mar 2022
    • Global Issues
    • United Nations
    • Russia
    • Technology
    • International law

    The hypocrisy of Russia’s push for a new global cybercrime treaty

    Mercedes Page
    The same Russia in the middle of invading a neighbour is preaching respect for state sovereignty online.
  • 4 Mar 2022
    • Global Issues
    • United Nations
    • Russia
    • International law
    • Ukraine

    Ukraine: Don’t write off the international order – read and rewrite it

    Fleur Johns , Anastasiya Kotova
    Resistance to Russia’s aggression is being shaped by how decentralised and data-centric global rules have become.
  • 23 Dec 2021
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security

    What’s the worst that could happen? Tackling existential risk

    Andrew Leigh
    A pandemic is bad. But humanity is inviting greater dangers by toying with technologies that could end the species.
  • 3 Nov 2021
    • Global Issues
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • Climate change

    It’s time to talk about existential risk

    Tom Barber
    There will be no chance to review the “lessons learned”.
  • 25 Oct 2021
    • Global Issues
    • Multilateral Institutions

    There is life in the Non-Alignment Movement yet

    Nina Markovic Khaze
    This 60-year-old Cold War relic is finding new voice as a venue separated from institutions of the West.
  • 23 Sep 2021
    • Global Issues
    • Africa

    Africa and the Caribbean, together, seek global bargaining power

    Carlisle Richardson
    Countries so often historically at the mercy of strategic interests wants to shape their collective destiny.
  • 14 Sep 2021
    • Global Issues
    • China
    • Canada

    Fears China will play games with the 2022 Winter Olympics

    Colin Peebles Christensen
    Beijing’s practice of arbitrary arrest and “hostage diplomacy” is prompting a backlash that may lead to a boycott.
  • 6 Aug 2021
    • Global Issues
    • Japan

    Life in a host city, at home, live-streaming the Olympics

    Donna Weeks
    Watching on from a tatami floor in Tokyo, the sport is great, the geopolitics just as good.
  • 4 Aug 2021
    • Global Issues
    • Coronavirus

    Cruising into stormy weather

    Nick Savvides
    Covid-19 is not the cruise industry’s only woe. Will America’s love affair with sea voyaging be able to turn the tide?
  • 20 Jul 2021
    • Global Issues
    • Japan

    Postcard from Tokyo 2020+1

    Donna Weeks
    Sport and politics make an unhappy union at one of the most controversial Olympics ever.
  • 20 Jul 2021
    • Global Issues
    • United States
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative

    Can Biden’s Build Back Better World compete with the Belt and Road?

    Henry Storey
    Overhyping China’s BRI can be self-defeating and play into Beijing’s hands.
  • 19 Jul 2021
    • Global Issues
    • Southeast Asia
    • Coronavirus

    Press freedom more important than ever in the Asia–Pacific

    Olivia Pirie-Griffiths
    A new database tracks incursions and crackdowns on journalists’ capacity to report.
  • 30 Jun 2021
    • Global Issues
    • Australia in the World

    Rules-based order: What’s in a name?

    Ben Scott
    The genesis, rise and complex ambitions of one of the most speculated about concepts in global politics right now.
  • 20 May 2021
    • Global Issues
    • Technology

    Violent extremism: The ghost or the machine?

    Lydia Khalil
    A parliamentary inquiry into violent extremism should call on tech companies to reveal their recommendation algorithms.
  • 12 Mar 2021
    • Global Issues
    • United States
    • US Elections
    • Institutions
    • Myanmar

    A smarter use of voting technology to stop election-related violence

    Iona Main
    Maybe in the search for efficiency we sometimes overcomplicate things, and the better solution is to get back to basics.
  • 4 Mar 2021
    • Global Issues

    An endless game of whack-a-mole?

    Jennifer Percival
    The efficacy of proscribing extreme-right groups is debated. How to keep ahead of their evolution is also challenging.
  • 3 Mar 2021
    • Global Issues
    • Iraq

    “Repair and Build”: Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq

    Fabrizio Bozzato
    A papal visit helps focus world attention. It also deals the Vatican in to the crowded “great game” in the Middle East.
  • 5 Feb 2021
    • Global Issues
    • United States
    • China

    What does America think the rules-based order is for?

    Sam Roggeveen
    The US is in a defensive crouch rather than in an expansionary mood. But bring on debate.
  • 29 Jan 2021
    • Global Issues
    • China
    • Australia
    • Coronavirus

    China and the Australian far right

    Kaz Ross
    The Covid pandemic and anti-CCP fervour have brought together some unlikely allies.
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