Australian Outlook Blog Posts

09 Jul 2014
Chinaʼs new official map of the country can only increase Indiaʼs suspicions about its intentions. While strategists ponder whether India
08 Jul 2014
With the gap closing between Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto, the presidential election on 9 July will be fiercely contested. While
08 Jul 2014
China may be the world’s new economic and geopolitical centre of gravity, however the notion that other countries such as
07 Jul 2014
The five-month long platinum minersʼ strike, the longest and costliest in South African history, has ended. A new strike, however,
03 Jul 2014
The Australian Government’s announcement of a new aid policy has received a broadly positive response from aid groups. The Minister for
02 Jul 2014
As an expert on Korea the AIIA welcomed Dr Leonid Petrov to share his insights into the security implications of
02 Jul 2014
Despite the early June military successes by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the group will neither
01 Jul 2014
Expert Panel-Fellows of the AIIA Hilary Charlesworth FAIIA-Professor, ANU; Director of Centre for International Governance and Justice Jocelyn Chey AM
30 Jun 2014
Summary Vietnam is struggling with how to respond to maritime expansion by China and the resulting tensions in the South
30 Jun 2014
Mounting tensions between Vietnam and China show that the South China Sea continues to be a security hotspot following China’s renewed assertiveness
26 Jun 2014
The trial and conviction of Australian journalist Peter Greste and two of his al-Jazeera colleagues has attracted world wide media
25 Jun 2014
Alliance 21, in partnership with the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, recently hosted an event on