November 2012 witnessed China’s second orderly succession of power, with Xi Jinping taking control of both the Chinese Communist Party and the armed […]

For Desmond Ball, the completion of Power and International Relations: Essays in Honour of Coral Bell was a labour of love. Indeed, it was […]

One of the puzzles of Myanmar’s political transition is the June 2011 collapse of the ceasefire that had been in place since 1994 […]

How did terrorists get so tech-savvy? What is it about the Islamic State’s social media communication that managed to attract thousands of fighters […]

Does Asia dominate Australia’s economic future? Is China just for big business? Why are South Koreans eating so much Aussie beef? Why do […]

No two countries have more at stake in the management of the US-China relationship than Australia and Japan. China is both Australia’s and […]

From a refugee child to a teenage suicide bomber to Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, children play multiple roles in international affairs. This […]

Australian diplomacy is now a fertile field with an institutional history spanning more than 80 years. Authors no longer plough a lonely furrow. […]

In December 2012, Shinzō Abe achieved perhaps the most remarkable comeback of post-war Japanese politics by becoming the Japanese prime minister for a […]

Despite the international community’s pledge to ‘never again’ allow mass atrocities like the Rwandan genocide to be repeated, the constant flow of news […]