Australia is increasingly spending around, not on, development
Transparency could be the cost of the semi-commercialisation of Australia’s international development efforts.
Time to recognise the Crimean Tatar genocide
Acknowledging the crimes in the 1940s would underline the attachment to Ukraine and rebuff changing borders by force.
Was that a future Ambassador Morrison meeting a soon-to-be again President Trump?
With an election looming in the United States and one not that far away in Australia, it’s an easy scenario to imagine.
The most important factor hardening China’s stance on Taiwan
And that is China itself.
A bread index to measure revolt
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Economic diplomacy: Budgeting for deglobalisation
Keeping up with the worldwide shift to industry policy is stretching boundaries of both economics and diplomacy.
Beyond borders, beyond loss: How regional cooperation can safeguard Asia’s biodiversity
The threats to migratory species is urgent and can only be tackled together.
Seek national security? Begin by becoming relevant
The weak needn’t suffer what they must.
Australia’s new gas strategy makes for flawed foreign policy
Simultaneously advancing energy security in Asia and climate security in the Pacific is both possible and desirable.
The Translator: The nomenclature of foreign aid
A series in which experts explain the sometimes baffling jargon of international affairs.