Australian Outlook Blog Posts

13 Mar 2017
This week, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson declared at a press conference in Jerusalem that Israel’s “illegal settlements” were “obstacles to
13 Mar 2017
Has the US withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership opened the door for others to take a leadership role in what was to be the
13 Mar 2017
Italy’s historically generous citizenship rights are complicating its attempts to deal with an influx of migrants. With more citizens than
12 Mar 2017
One of the many over-valued witticisms of Winston Churchill concerns the slice of Europe known as the Balkans: ‘The Balkans
09 Mar 2017
Donald Trump’s protectionist rhetoric is evocative of a global trend away from globalisation. To prevent democracy becoming a casualty in
09 Mar 2017
Iran’s forthcoming presidential elections will occur amid a ravaged Middle East and a precarious nuclear deal. With a fractured opposition
08 Mar 2017
The threat climate change poses to security is felt most acutely in the low-lying islands of the Melanesian Arc. Rising tides
08 Mar 2017
In late 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, signed a peace agreement to
08 Mar 2017
The Trump administration has embraced a new, reductionist approach to managing its alliances. James Mattis, on his first visit to
07 Mar 2017
From the red of its socialist and communist origins to the inclusive, global focus of its contemporary tricolour, the story of
07 Mar 2017
Laser weapons are beginning to be seriously considered in US defence forces planning. After a slow start, they may soon
07 Mar 2017
New laws passed earlier this year by the Cambodian government make it far easier to dissolve political parties should their