Diplomacy
Digital Diplomacy links: Facebook leaders, Army brigades, social media mobility and more
As Australian digital diplomacy strives to catch up to rest of the world, these monthly links highlight the most creative and effective ways countries are leveraging the internet…
Plenty of challenges await Joe Hockey as Australia's new ambassador to the US
So Mr Hockey goes to Washington. The former treasurer will take up his post at the Australian chancery on Massachusetts Avenue early in the new year.
Hockey's appointment,…
Much at stake for Turnbull and the region at East Asia Summit
The 10th East Asia Summit this weekend promises to be one of the most interesting bits of summitry in some time. This, the last stop on Malcolm Turnbull’s five-nation tour which…
All change: Election result may see another round of the Burma/Myanmar name game
Shortly after the Abbott Government took office in September 2013, it overturned the decision by Labor Foreign Minister Bob Carr in 2012 to recognise Burma’s new official name,…
Digital Asia links: Cross-Strait trolling, Modi & Silicon Valley, WhatsApp government and more
The Asia Pacific is the most dynamic digital landscape in the world, home to the fastest adopters of new technologies and the largest concentration of mobile and social media…
Turnbull in Jakarta: Relationship reheat
Malcolm Turnbull's visit to Jakarta this week did not signal any drastic changes for the direction of the Australia-Indonesia relationship, but it did leave relations considerably…
Sinai crash tragedy will test the West's fragile links with el-Sisi's Eygpt
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and British Prime Minister David Cameron last week (Photo:Getty Images)
A week after the crash of a Russian airliner carrying 224…
Obama should encourage Jokowi to lead in East Asia
Later today, Indonesian President Joko Widodo will become only the latest Asian leader to arrive at the White House for consultations with President Barack Obama. But Obama’s…
The Turnbull era: Eight ideas for fine-tuning Australian foreign policy
In his recent Boyer Lectures, the Lowy Institute's Michael Fullilove notes that the old world had gone, and that the rise of China calls for a serious re-examination of…
Digital diplomacy is not the same as digital outreach
Recently Jonathan McClory from UK consultancy Portland Communications, along with Facebook's government outreach manager Katie Harbath, skilfully entered the five-year long debate…