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  • 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.
  • 23 Dec 2020
    • Global Issues

    Your most-read articles on The Interpreter in 2020

    The Interpreter
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  • 15 Dec 2020
    • Global Issues
    • Review

    The wrong side won: Remembering John le Carré

    Milton Cockburn
    The famed author roamed the grey of the international order and captured a world of “half-angels fighting half-devils”.
  • 7 Dec 2020
    • Global Issues
    • Diplomacy
    • United Nations

    Solve generational problems by listening to the youth who’ll live them

    Caitlin Mollica , Helen Berents
    Developing the Youth, Peace and Security agenda in the Asia-Pacific is a chance to ensure lasting change.
  • 24 Nov 2020
    • Global Issues
    • Terrorism
    • Technology

    After Christchurch: Mapping online right-wing extremists

    Brian Ballsun-Stanton , Lise Waldek , Julian Droogan
    For all the hate, sometimes extending to talk of violence, the extremist milieu is also a highly social space.
  • 13 Nov 2020
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security

    The evolving threat from chemical weapons

    Miah Hammond-Errey , Paul Mostafa
    Emerging technologies pose new challenges to the already fragile norms of chemical weapons control.
  • 27 Oct 2020
    • Global Issues
    • Emerging Threats

    The hate matrix of online gaming

    Matthew Sharpe
    Chatrooms enable players to discuss games, yet are increasingly a hotbed for glorifying violence and radicalisation.
  • 10 Sep 2020
    • Global Issues
    • Climate change
    • Coronavirus

    Working one for the planet

    Mark Beeson
    After a lifetime employed, what if people spend one last year in the job and donate their salary to charity? I’m game.
  • 4 Sep 2020
    • Global Issues
    • Review

    Book Review: The seeds of authoritarianism

    Warwick McFadyen
    Anne Applebaum’s latest book is a forensic and humane study of a world where methods change, but lust for power doesn’t.
  • 2 Sep 2020
    • Global Issues
    • United Nations

    Indonesia’s UN Security Council drive for inclusive peace and security

    Jacqui True , Irine Hiraswari Gayatri , Nuri Widiastuti Veronika
    Jakarta is seeking to boost its regional leadership taking up the issue of women’s roles in peacebuilding.
  • 28 Aug 2020
    • Global Issues
    • Terrorism
    • Technology
    • Human rights

    Understanding the full spectrum of hate

    Matteo Vergani
    Extreme violence garners most attention, but the problems arise much earlier – both online and in the real world.
  • 18 Jun 2020
    • Global Issues
    • Public Opinion
    • Timor-Leste
    • Southeast Asia

    Will Timor-Leste be the region’s latest press freedom casualty?

    Jim Nolan
    An new law under the guise of “dignity” would only diminish democracy and transparency in the country.
  • 16 Jun 2020
    • Defence & Security
    • Global Issues
    • Australia

    It’s not OK: White supremacy and Australia’s security services

    Jennifer Percival
    A small gesture raises big questions about white supremacist ideology in Australian police and security forces.
  • 20 May 2020
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Technology

    We’re all losers in the space arms race

    Sarah O’Connor
    Nations have battled one another for strategic advantage in space for decades. Actual fighting would be a step beyond.
  • 18 May 2020
    • Global Issues
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Vietnam

    Why Vietnam embraces multilateralism at this uncertain time

    Le Dinh Tinh
    Communities might be locked in isolation for Covid-19, but Hanoi has faith in the way the world can work together.
  • 4 May 2020
    • Global Issues
    • Climate change

    Bob May – Professor of Everything

    Robyn Williams
    A scientist with a flexible mind and at times bluntly persuasive style guided PMs and the public alike.
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