Bolsonaro’s War on the Environment and Climate Change By Dr Flavia Bellieni Zimmermann — Fresh perspective 06 August 2019Brazil’s current administration is turning the country into an “exterminator of the future” and is interfering with emerging data on Amazon deforestation. Read More
Review of Power and Diplomacy: India’s Foreign Policies During the Cold War by Zorawar Daulet Singh Reviewed by Dr Stuti Bhatnagar — Reading room 06 August 2019While not an easy read, Zorawar Daulet Singh’s book provides rich and timely lessons for contemporary debates about India’s strategic posture and realignment and is set apart by its instructive methodology. Read More
Australia and South Korea Middle Power Security Cooperation By Peter K. Lee — Analysis 06 August 2019The Australia-South Korea relationship is a particularly representative example of a middle power security dyad, where inter-personal leadership dynamics were crucial in bringing about a closer strategic partnership. Read More
Dyason House Podcast: New Media and New Conflict By Dr Sebastian Kaempf 05 August 2019In this podcast episode, Dr Sebastian Kaempf discusses the role a transforming global media landscape is playing in contemporary conflicts, the visualisation of warfare in popular culture, the Pentagon's Role in Hollywood Representations of Warfare and what this all means for traditional media institutions. Read More
Deporting New Zealand Citizens to the “Home” They’ve Never Known By Associate Professor Katherine Smits — Analysis 01 August 2019The dispute over Australia’s deportation of New Zealand citizens who have been sentenced to prison reflects different approaches to human rights and immigration politics in the two countries. Read More
The End of the Golden Weather for Abe’s Diplomacy? By Dr Corey Wallace — Analysis 01 August 2019Despite Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s commanding victory in the recent upper house elections, foreign policy challenges in the next 18 months could undermine his legacy of competent statecraft. Read More
Australia in the World Podcast Ep. 25: Deputy Secretary David Gruen from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet By Dr David Gruen, Allan Gyngell AO FAIIA and Dr Darren Lim 31 July 2019This episode presents another interview with a senior Australian policymaker. Dr David Gruen is Deputy Secretary, Economic at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Australia’s G20 Sherpa. Read More
Xi’s 2015 Policy Mistakes and the Unacceptable Consequences By Stephen Joske — Analysis 31 July 2019A Lehman-style financial crisis in China is probably inevitable within the next two to three years. Yet despite what will be a bumpy transition, the country should then resume respectable — though slower than current — growth. Read More
The Key to Moderating Russian Behaviour is China By Dr Matthew Sussex — Analysis 30 July 2019While the Russia-China has developed beyond an “axis of convenience,” it is not an alliance. The result is that China will hold the key to moderating Russian behaviour in the future, and that the Chinese and Russian interests will not always align. Read More
Playing Chicken Over Brexit By Colin Chapman FAIIA — Analysis 30 July 2019Both Boris Johnson, the mercurial and ego-driven new British prime minister, and the present elected EU leaders — Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Donald Tusk and Jean Claude Junker — must share the blame for splitting the world’s largest and most secure economic bloc. Read More