Australian Outlook Blog Posts

17 Feb 2014
Ukraine’s Maidan revolution this week culminated in the overthrow of President Yanukovich. Even so, clamours of a ‘democratic triumph’ would
13 Feb 2014
Richard Haass describes himself as a “card-carrying member of the foreign policy establishment”. It would be hard to disagree. He
12 Feb 2014
KAISER Wilhem II of Germany was a ``scatterbrained buffoon’’ fond of sabre rattling and scribbling rage-filled rants on the margins
07 Feb 2014
Scotland’s independence referendum—pursued by the political elite rather than driven by a grassroots movement—raises questions about the viability of secession.
06 Feb 2014
The nuclear security nexus between India and Pakistan remains treacherous. Given the inapplicability of Mutual Assured Destruction concepts, an alternative
06 Feb 2014
The alignment of various nation-state laws by implementation of international conventions has been a work in progress that has had
05 Feb 2014
One of the characteristics of today’s Asia is its asymmetric rivalries, including Japan’s rivalry with China, China’s with the United
05 Feb 2014
The AIIA celebrated its 80th Anniversary as a national organisation promoting public debate on international issues. Following the September Federal
01 Feb 2014
Increasingly, armed conflict in the 21st century is characterised by the involvement of private military and security companies—which undermine existing
01 Feb 2014
It perhaps should come as no surprise, given China’s recent assertiveness, but there are concerns on Canberra’s Russell Hill on
10 Feb 2014
The international politics, players and history surrounding “disasters” (both broadly- and narrowly-defined) should be of key interest to an Australian
07 Feb 2014
Australia has a vital interest in preventing its region, defined as the Indo-Pacific in the 2013 Defence White Paper, from