The Australian prime minister's 2020 Defence Strategic Update has many strengths, but it does not address the critical factors of diplomacy and development.  Australia's unbalanced strategic posture risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The Chinese Communist Party's global influence operations are covert but pervasive, and are undermining Western democratic institutions. "Hidden Hand" is very welcome in raising our awareness of this, and the stakes involved.

The ICC Prosecutor’s decision to investigate war crimes in Palestine has been met with various criticisms, some of which hinge on distortions or mischaracterisations of the Court’s functions. These merit correction for the benefit of public debate on this matter.

Rhys Carvosso is an LLM Candidate at the University of Cambridge, and a former intern at AIIA NSW.

Black Lives Matter campaigns across the UK have brought the legacy of the Rhodes Trust into the limelight. With racism, colonialism, and the vestiges of historic figures at the forefront of global conversation, the future of the scholarship may be in jeopardy. 

China claims territory over the Galwan Valley, which India has rebuffed as a unilateral attempt to change the status quo. Diplomatic and military efforts to defuse the standoff have not achieved any substantial results, and now the two nuclear-armed Asian giants are at risk of war.

China and India remain deeply distrustful of each other’s strategic regional and geopolitical intentions. It remains to be seen whether they will continue to cooperate as pragmatic political and economic partners.

Europe’s €750 billion (A$1.23 trillion) European Recovery Plan is in deep trouble. Member states have yet to find agreement on how the funds are distributed and on what criteria distribution should be based.

The decades-long transition from the European Coal and Steel Community into the modern European Union established a model that regional integration projects will […]

Late last year, it felt as if there was a new protest, in a new street, in a new country every week. One […]

With hopes of an EU-UK trade deal diminishing, both sides are actively preparing for a “no-deal” Brexit. While the deal is on the forefront of British lawmakers’ agendas, the EU’s attention is now focused on producing a COVID-19 recovery package.