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  • 4 Nov 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Pacific Islands
    • United States
    • Australia
    • Technology

    Economic diplomacy: Supply chains, sanctions, and Telstra Pacific

    Greg Earl
    From ports to productivity, the pandemic has only exposed longstanding economic resilience issues in Australia.
  • 1 Nov 2021
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Australia
    • China
    • Geo-economics

    Markets and resilience in the face of economic coercion

    Darren Lim , Victor Ferguson , Scott Waldron
    Calls for a “China plus” strategy rightfully draws business attention to the need to manage rising geoeconomic risks.
  • 29 Oct 2021
    • United States
    • Australia
    • Australia-United States Relations

    What Australia needs to ask itself about the United States

    Ethan Paul
    As the US embraces “strategic competition”, its impetuous nationalism has implications for Canberra.
  • 28 Oct 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • Australia
    • United Kingdom

    Britain and Australia aren’t actually treaty allies – they should be

    Ben Judah
    Only a formal deal will lock in the gains under AUKUS against future uncertainty.
  • 27 Oct 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • European Union

    AUKUS? Quad? FOIP? A fragmented approach cannot counter China

    Yatharth Kachiar , Priya Vijaykumar Poojary
    Only a coherent policy for the Indo-Pacific will work. The West needs to offer a strong economic balance to Beijing.
  • 25 Oct 2021
    • Pacific Islands
    • Australia

    Australia and Digicel: Hands-off no more?

    Shahar Hameiri
    Financing the takeover of a Pacific telco firm amounts to a marked shift in the government’s industrial philosophy.
  • 25 Oct 2021
    • Australia
    • Coronavirus

    Assessing Australia’s role in global vaccine equity

    Roland Rajah , Alyssa Leng
    Australia has been more generous than most but as geopolitical as China.
  • 22 Oct 2021
    • Trade
    • China's Economy
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia
    • China

    China’s economic sanctions made Australia more confident

    Ye Xue
    Greed hasn’t left Canberra cowering in the face of Beijing’s attempted punishment.
  • 21 Oct 2021
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • Trade
    • Australia
    • China

    Economic diplomacy: Los Angeles port pips China as Christmas grinch

    Greg Earl
    Amid an emerging global trade supply chain crisis, Australian economic policy advisers are more reserved about risks.
  • 21 Oct 2021
    • Australia
    • United Kingdom

    Queen Elizabeth II: For Country and Commonwealth

    Simon Heffer
    From the Suez crisis to dicing with dictators – a steady reign spanning seven decades of constant global change.
  • 20 Oct 2021
    • Australia
    • Indonesia
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Australia, Indonesia and climate change

    Richard Mathews
    As the immediate pandemic crisis begins to recede, both countries should refocus the relationship on climate change.
  • 14 Oct 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China
    • United Kingdom

    AUKUS: Why Beijing didn’t go ballistic

    Jia Deng
    China’s reaction was in words not deeds. Another high-profile case may have influenced its attitude.
  • 13 Oct 2021
    • Australia
    • International law

    An opening on the ICJ and an opportunity for renewal

    Fleur Johns
    Australia’s nominee for a vacant seat offers states a chance to strengthen and renew the Court at a critical juncture.
  • 12 Oct 2021
    • Australia
    • Indonesia
    • Coronavirus

    Australia should donate surplus vaccine to Indonesia

    Josh Burns
    Helping a neighbour in need is far from mere charity but will protect Australia, too.
  • 11 Oct 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • Europe
    • Australia
    • France

    Subs: Australia’s reputation overboard

    Richard Ogier
    In Europe, and not only in France, the image of Australia has suffered a direct hit.
  • 7 Oct 2021
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China
    • Japan

    Economic diplomacy: Japan’s new PM joins the (supply) chain gang

    Greg Earl
    New research shows Australia may be an export diversification role model.
  • 5 Oct 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China
    • United Kingdom

    In defence of AUKUS

    Oriana Skylar Mastro , Zack Cooper
    This is not only about nuclear-powered submarines; it is about a strengthened US commitment to Australia.
  • 4 Oct 2021
    • China
    • Australia
    • The Trans-Pacific Partnership
    • Trade

    The scope to negotiate with China on the CPTPP

    Roland Rajah , Stephen Grenville
    It would be useful to have more cooperative economic ballast in relations, even as other things might deteriorate.
  • 1 Oct 2021
    • Trade
    • Australia's Trade
    • WTO
    • Australia

    WTO dispute settlement: why Australia bothers

    Ravi Kewalram
    Australia had been an infrequent user of this tool. But the system is now more relevant than ever.
  • 28 Sep 2021
    • The Trans-Pacific Partnership
    • Trade
    • Australia
    • China

    Australia’s real leverage in China’s CPTTP bid

    Hugh Piper
    Beijing has handed Canberra an unexpected bargaining chip. The question is how to best use it?
  • 21 Sep 2021
    • Trade
    • Australia
    • India

    Australia-India trade deal: An early harvest or cherry picking?

    Justin Brown
    A pragmatic tone appears to distinguish the revived talks. Ambitious, not so much.
  • 20 Sep 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australia
    • Technology
    • International law

    The law when putting autonomous military platforms on a shopping list

    Eve Massingham
    The fear of rogue killer robots looms large but legal questions go well beyond the pointy end.
  • 17 Sep 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • Australia
    • France

    Sunk! France cries outrage over snubbed subs

    John Sexton
    The French president is stung, the local media in uproar, and allies are caught in the storm.
  • 16 Sep 2021
    • Asia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Australian Navy
    • Australia
    • United Kingdom

    How nuclear subs could transform Australia, its alliance and Asia

    Sam Roggeveen
    First thoughts on the consequences of a truly momentous decision.
  • 16 Sep 2021
    • United States
    • Australia
    • Australia-United States Relations

    AUSMIN is a chance to refocus Biden’s Indo-Pacific strategy

    Ashley Townshend , Susannah Patton , Tom Corben
    For all the talk, there is little evidence that Washington is treating the region as a decisive priority.
  • 13 Sep 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • Australia
    • South Korea

    Small hints of a bigger opportunity in Australia-South Korea ties

    Peter Dean
    Defence industry engagement can be the bridge to span different strategic visions of challenges to the region.
  • 10 Sep 2021
    • Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia
    • China

    Candour, at last, on China – but then what?

    Hugh Piper
    Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has made explicit Australia’s challenge. The next step is ensuring business knows the plan.
  • 9 Sep 2021
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia
    • China
    • Singapore

    Economic diplomacy: Australia Inc’s new world order

    Greg Earl
    Is “China plus” the answer to fading US global hegemony?
  • 9 Sep 2021
    • Afghanistan War
    • Afghanistan
    • Australia

    An Afghan test leaves Australia’s principles wanting

    Edmond Roy
    A cricket match offered a field to engage on rights issues but instead the government further isolated the Taliban.
  • 9 Sep 2021
    • United States
    • Australia
    • Australia-United States Relations

    ANZUS and Trumpism

    Ben Scott
    Australia needs to acknowledge its blind spots in its 70-year friendship with America.
  • 8 Sep 2021
    • Terrorism
    • Australia

    Policing national security since 9/11

    Warwick Jones
    Terrorist threats set the Australian Federal Police a global challenge. But one to be balanced with priorities at home.
  • 2 Sep 2021
    • Australia
    • Climate change
    • Energy
    • Environment

    Australia’s potential as a “green” hydrogen superpower

    James Bowen
    As the hydrocarbon era wanes a new energy source could be a potent geopolitical asset.
  • 1 Sep 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Australia

    Alliance management – a history in pictures

    Daniel Flitton
    In a game of diplomatic spot-the-difference, a sense of continuity is evident at recent AUSMIN meetings.
  • 1 Sep 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Australia

    Will ANZUS make it to 80?

    Sam Roggeveen
    A war in Asia would be a true test of the “unbreakable” bonds said to define the US-Australia relationship.
  • 30 Aug 2021
    • United States
    • Australia
    • Review

    Debating the alliance

    Susannah Patton
    An ambitious attempt to open new avenues to assess the US-Australia alliance misjudges the chance of independent action.
  • 27 Aug 2021
    • Diplomacy
    • Australia
    • Sex and Gender

    Australia and LGBTQI rights

    Kate Clayton
    Canberra needs a loud and proud foreign policy on the human rights of gender and sexual minorities.
  • 26 Aug 2021
    • Pacific Islands
    • Afghanistan
    • Afghanistan War
    • India
    • Australia
    • Trade

    Economic diplomacy: After Kabul, Australia looks to India

    Greg Earl
    Australia has a lower war-to-aid ratio, but the US is more transparent about its failure against the Taliban.
  • 26 Aug 2021
    • Diplomacy
    • Afghanistan War
    • Afghanistan
    • Australia
    • International law

    What’s in a name? The Taliban and recognition under international law

    Donald R Rothwell
    Formal recognition as a legitimate government may be a bargaining chip to press the Taliban to respect human rights.
  • 25 Aug 2021
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australia

    The new citizen soldier

    Cate Carter
    Recent events have seen a modern Australian military member emerging – vocal, humanitarian and politically active.
  • 12 Aug 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Australia
    • China
    • Climate change

    Economic diplomacy: Burning down the house

    Greg Earl
    Climate change is the new frontier for economic thinking in international relations.
  • 11 Aug 2021
    • Australia
    • China

    How can Australia reset relations with China?

    Bec Strating , Kate Clayton
    Two past PMs offer their perspective on a diplomatic breakdown and how to put the pieces back together.
  • 9 Aug 2021
    • India
    • Australia
    • Trade

    Australia and India: A time to refocus on trade talks

    Anil Wadhwa
    Tony Abbott’s visit to India shows conditions are ripe to advance a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement.
  • 29 Jul 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Diplomacy
    • Australia

    Economic diplomacy: Going for gold in 20 years and counting

    Greg Earl
    Brisbane will host the Olympics in 2032 but the starter’s gun has already sounded in the cost versus benefits contest.
  • 26 Jul 2021
    • Syria
    • Islamic State
    • Terrorism
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Bringing home Australian children trapped in Syrian camps

    Rodger Shanahan
    Faced with thorny legal and security obstacles for the adults, it may be better to return children alone.
  • 23 Jul 2021
    • Pacific Islands
    • United States
    • Australia
    • New Zealand

    Shouldering their fair share? The ANZUS allies in the Pacific Islands

    Anna Powles , Joanne Wallis
    A reported pivot by special forces to the region raises questions about the role expected of Australia and New Zealand.
  • 22 Jul 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Asean
    • Australia
    • China
    • Southeast Asia

    US-China rivalries: What matters for ASEAN

    Nurliana Kamaruddin
    Southeast Asian nations have learned to be wary of big powers offering promises of security in return for loyalty.
  • 13 Jul 2021
    • Afghanistan War
    • Afghanistan
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Afghanistan, Australia and the visa conundrum

    Rodger Shanahan
    What responsibility does the government have for those on the periphery of the Australian campaign in Afghanistan?
  • 9 Jul 2021
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia

    The changing face of Australia’s diplomatic network

    Nicholas Bosworth
    A stocktake shows rising political appointments but Australia’s heads of mission now far better reflect the population.
  • 6 Jul 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Australia

    Australia right to back Biden on democracy

    Ben Scott
    Foreign policy trade-offs are an uncomfortable truth on the road to rules-based freedom.
  • 2 Jul 2021
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Sex and Gender

    Forgiveness not permission: A feminist foreign policy

    Alice Ridge , Joanna Pradela
    If Australia wants to adopt a values-based approach to the world, the next step is obvious.
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