Australian Outlook Blog Posts

08 Aug 2014
The Middle East continues as a major focus of concern, although the emphasis has shifted to Iraq and Syria as
08 Aug 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign is the broadest and deepest effort to purge, reorganize and rectify the Communist Party
06 Aug 2014
Poor geographic conditions, insufficient preparation and the unsettled sovereignty mean that a nuclear disaster in Taiwan would seriously impact on
06 Aug 2014
Mark Thirlwell looks at the various obstacles to trade and how a renewed commitment to the stand still on protectionism can
06 Aug 2014
The first week of August marks not only the centenary of the guns of August 1914, but also the fiftieth
06 Aug 2014
The 20th International AIDS Conference, AIDS2014, was recently concluded in Melbourne Australia having been attended by 13,600 delegates from more
05 Aug 2014
In the 2012 Operation Pillar of Defence, the fog of war gave way to the digital smog of social media.
05 Aug 2014
Internet memes offer a potentially rich source of data for International Relations research and there are many reasons for us
04 Aug 2014
Both in the case of the confrontation in eastern Ukraine, and in the battle between Israel and Hamas, there appears
04 Aug 2014
Unlike his predecessor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been paying increased attention to India’s neighbour Bhutan which, despite not being a
01 Aug 2014
After 12 days of counting, Indonesia’s Electoral Commission declared on July 22 that Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Jusuf Kalla had
01 Aug 2014
Japan has long been characterised as a passive actor in international politics, reacting to rather than acting in the face