The April parliamentary elections in Indonesia have attracted surprisingly little Australian media coverage, having been over-shadowed by the […]

While foreign policy has not figured among the key issues in the Indian elections, a new government will have to manage India’s sometimes […]

Expert Panel-Fellows of the AIIA Hilary Charlesworth FAIIA-Professor, ANU; Director of Centre for International Governance and Justice Jocelyn […]

As the rainy season approaches in South Sudan and fighting continues unabated in different parts of the country, humanitarian needs are ever-increasing. It […]

This week Australia participated in the second meeting of MIKTA, an informal grouping of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia. MIKTA emerged […]

Rumours of the death of the nuclear disarmament cause from Ukraine is much exaggerated. Ukraine could still have been invaded and its history […]

Democracy was deemed unlikely for India as the country’s grinding poverty and the diversity of its ethnic, religious, caste and linguistic identities were […]

President Barack Obama’s swing through Asia (but no stop in China) is already attracting considerable comment, some of it adverse.  Remember that last […]

Bob Carr took on the job of Australian foreign minister believing, as he doesn’t hesitate to tell us in his Diary of a […]

“That book” became an issue this week. Bob Carr’s Diary of a Foreign Minister has been – to use the former foreign minister’s own vernacular – […]