Reading Room: Stranded Nation Reviewed by Professor James Cotton FAIIA — Reading room 01 June 2019David Walker’s latest book is masterfully written, and also makes some interesting choices about what it does or doesn’t include. Read More
No Far-right Electoral “Earthquake” to Shake the European Union By Colin Chapman FAIIA — Analysis 30 May 2019While some nationalist forces, including Nigel Farage's brand-new Brexit Party, scored wins at a national level, overall there was little support for anti-EU parties in the recent European Parliament elections. Meanwhile, the future of Brexit remains as uncertain as ever. Read More
Huawei, the Foreign Adversary? By Thom Dixon — Analysis 30 May 2019The Google-Huawei dispute over the Android operating system has done irrevocable damage to the reputation of the US tech sector. The disagreement could degenerate very quickly with a tit-for-tat listing of different companies on Chinese and US national security watch lists for entirely arbitrary reasons. Read More
US-Australia-Indonesia Trilateral Security? Conditions for Cooperation By Dr Maryanne Kelton and David Willis — Analysis 30 May 2019While US endeavours to maintain its regional primacy and its military continues to shore up security relationships with allies and partners, Australia may now be the preferred initiator of any moves toward low-level trilateral discussions that include Indonesia. Read More
To Prevent Brain Drain, Kosovo Must Eradicate Corruption By Dr Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra — Analysis 29 May 2019The youth of Kosovo are leaving the country in alarming numbers, driven away by the endemic corruption of Kosovo’s political and business elite. To assist, the US and EU should add more pressure. Read More
Conflict in Nigeria: Why Access to Health Care is a Luxury Few Can Afford By Eleojo Esther Akpa — Analysis 29 May 2019For Australians, it might be difficult to imagine a scenario where there are no hospitals to walk into or no medical personnel to consult about the most basic of health issues. But this is the reality for thousands of people affected by the ongoing armed conflict in northeastern Nigeria. Read More
Where Is International Leadership When We Need It? By Professor Mark Beeson — Analysis 29 May 2019Without better global leadership on climate change our best days are behind us, yet many are turning to a Swedish schoolgirl for leadership rather than the ruling global elite. Read More
Reflecting on 20 years of Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations: Progress, Problems and Prospects By Dr Charles T. Hunt — Analysis 29 May 2019Today marks 20 years since the first time UN peacekeepers were directed to protect civilians from physical violence in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, the Protection of Civilians (PoC) mandate has become a centre of gravity for peacekeeping operations but also for the UN system as a whole. Read More
The Key to Our Era, in the Asian Region and Beyond? Reviewed by Professor Anthony Milner — Reading room 28 May 2019Has Francis Fukuyama once again provided the key to making sense of the confusion going on around us, including in our own Asian — or Asia-Pacific, or Indo-Pacific — region? Read More
Dyason House Podcast: Brexit, the Anglosphere and a Crisis of Identity By Dr Ben Wellings 28 May 2019In this episode of the AIIA VIC’s Dyason House podcast, Dr Ben Wellings discusses how the support for an Anglosphere — which is based on a particular memory of empire — helps explain what caused Brexit in the first place, and how Euro-scepticism as a political project is not “protectionist” but rather “hyper-globalist”. Read More