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 – […]

The strategic rationale for nuclear weapons has disappeared since the end of the Cold War. The establishment of […]

Recent bilateral trade deals will lead to commercial benefits. The next steps are pursuing good multi-party agreements and using the momentum to move […]

The Economic Partnership Agreement that Japan recently signed with Australia (JAEPA) has everything to do with Japanese trade strategy and little if anything […]

How does one go from being a transnational recruiter for the world’s largest Islamist organisation, Hizb ut-Tahrir, to […]