Australia’s Human Rights Council Bid Should Start at Home 17 February 2016Australia’s bid for the Human Rights Council has been in the news with the announcement of the Hon Philip Ruddock MP as Australia’s […] Read More
Australia’s Human Rights Council Bid Should Start at Home By Jes’Se Rushby 17 February 2016Australia’s bid for the Human Rights Council has been in the news with the announcement of the Hon Philip Ruddock MP as Australia’s […] Read More
Foreign Policy Begins at Home By Melissa Conley Tyler FAIIA 13 February 2014Richard Haass describes himself as a “card-carrying member of the foreign policy establishment”. It would be hard to disagree. He is president of […] Read More
Book Review: Identities, Nationalism, and the State: The Politics and Ethnicity and Minority Regimes in the Middle East By Khalid Al Bostanji 26 April 2024In this volume, Miaad A. Hassan takes issue with “defined” political and social systems, and outlines how majorities and minorities in the Middle East shape political identities. These identities have not been secterian but rather responsive to political and external challenges. Read More
“Chibok Girls”: Ten Years On and Boko Haram Still Thrives By Joana Ama Osei-Tutu 26 April 2024A decade ago, Abubakar Shekau, the former leader of Boko Haram, released a video boasting “I abducted your girls…I will sell them in the market, by Allah! I will marry off a woman at the age of twelve.” This caused outrage, disbelief, and calls to unite and #bringbackourgirls to their families. Read More
Book Review: The Locked-Up Country By Professor Anthony J. Langlois 26 April 2024The subtitle of Chodor and Hameiri’s book is “Learning the Lessons from Australia’s COVID-19 Response.” There is one lesson in particular that the authors foreground – which, in fact, is the singular and repeated refrain of the book: that we re-learn how to govern. Read More
Australia's Growing Space Agency Amid a Renewed Push to the Stars By Ching Wei Sooi 24 April 2024According to a recent survey, the Australian public lacks awareness of global space activities and domestic space endeavours. So, what is Australia is up to in space? Read More
Offshore Processing Offers False Hope for United Kingdom By Madeline Gleeson 22 April 2024The influence of Australia’s deterrence-based asylum policy is spreading across Europe and the United Kingdom, with serious consequences for both human rights and the rule of law. Obstacles to the implementation of ‘offshore processing’ in particular might force States to refocus on their own asylum processing capabilities. Read More
Book Review: Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World By John West 19 April 2024America’s foreign policy has always been a battleground between isolationist and internationalist forces, according to Charles Kupchan. The tussle continues to this very day, and could intensify if Donald Trump wins the next US Presidential election. Read More