Australian Outlook Blog Posts

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
10 Feb 2014
Australia’s decision to litigate against Japan’s whaling program is a consequence of variable factors within Australia’s domestic political climate. Summer
01 Feb 2014
This is an in-depth country report on Australia in German for a German-speaking audience. Its eleven chapters provide a detailed overview
27 Feb 2014
Australia is entering an era of powerful neighbours with competing interests. We need to understand how those countries view us
06 Mar 2014
While we still do not know the fate of the Malaysian Airlines 777 that vanished between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing,