Australian Outlook Blog Posts

24 Apr 2014
Democracy was deemed unlikely for India as the country’s grinding poverty and the diversity of its ethnic, religious, caste and
24 Apr 2014
President Barack Obama’s swing through Asia (but no stop in China) is already attracting considerable comment, some of it adverse.
17 Apr 2014
Bob Carr took on the job of Australian foreign minister believing, as he doesn’t hesitate to tell us in his
17 Apr 2014
“That book” became an issue this week. Bob Carr’s Diary of a Foreign Minister has been – to use the former foreign minister’s
16 Apr 2014
The strategic rationale for nuclear weapons has disappeared since the end of the Cold War. The establishment of a global
16 Apr 2014
Recent bilateral trade deals will lead to commercial benefits. The next steps are pursuing good multi-party agreements and using the
16 Apr 2014
The Economic Partnership Agreement that Japan recently signed with Australia (JAEPA) has everything to do with Japanese trade strategy and
16 Apr 2014
How does one go from being a transnational recruiter for the world’s largest Islamist organisation, Hizb ut-Tahrir, to debating the
14 Apr 2014
Expert Panel-Fellows of the AIIA Hilary Charlesworth FAIIA-Professor, ANU; Director of Centre for International Governance and Justice Jocelyn Chey AM
11 Apr 2014
This week saw a sudden death, not of an individual, but the computer operating system Windows XP, many of us
10 Apr 2014
This week the Australian Strategic Policy Institute hosted a landmark conference The Submarine Choice bringing together academics, policymakers and government
10 Apr 2014
In a world order consumed by ever-changing security issues, the role of securitisation has taken a dangerous form. Political actors