This week the International Court of Justice (ICJ) upheld Australia’s challenge to Japan’s Antarctic whaling program. The ICJ concluded by 12 votes to four […]

Decades after formal barriers were removed, women remain demonstrably underrepresented in senior positions in Australia’s international affairs. A number of barriers remain which […]

The notorious telegram of 1945 which peremptorily ordered young Australian diplomat Patrick Shaw to a third post in as many years, saying ‘wife […]

Feared, admired and often lampooned, Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria was a powerful figure in Australian political and intellectual circles from the 1930s until his […]

Can the military restore order in Egypt?  Field Marshall Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has quit his military post to run officially for the presidency. […]

As C. Raja Mohan observes in the preface to this book, India has had many ‘atomic avatars’: it […]

It is now three years since the Syria conflict began and the humanitarian situation for millions of people across the country is catastrophic […]

The Australia-Indonesia relationship has seen a number of incredible developments over the past five months. The Edward Snowden leaks shattered a delicate cooperative […]

With ongoing conflict in Bangkok, Thai society is confronted with the ghosts of its disrupted democracy. Coups are a peculiarly common feature of […]

Australia is pursuing significant trade agreements with its Asian neighbours under the mandate of ‘economic diplomacy’, yet is missing out on opportunities through […]