Expert Panel-Fellows of the AIIA |
 Hilary Charlesworth FAIIA-Professor, ANU; Director of Centre for International Governance and Justice |  Jocelyn Chey AM FAIIA-Visiting Professor, University of Sydney; former Consul-General in Hong Kong |  James Cotton FAIIA-Emeritus Professor at the University of NSW |  Rawdon Dalrymple AO FAIIA-Former Visiting Professor, University of Sydney; Chairman of ASEAN Focus Group Ltd |  Graeme Dobell FAIIA-Journalist Fellow, Australian Strategic Policy Institute |  Erika Feller FAIIA-Former UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection |  Janet Hunt FAIIA-Former Head of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid |
 James Ingram AO FAIIA-Former Diplomat and Head of the UN World Food Program |  John McCarthy AO FAIIA-Former Ambassador to Japan, Indonesia, the United States, Thailand, Mexico and Vietnam |  Geoffrey Miller AO FAIIA-Former Australian Ambassador to Japan; former Director-General of the Office of National Assessments |  Robert O’Neill FAIIA– Former Chichele Professor of the History of War, Oxford University |  Garry Woodard FAIIA-Former Diplomat and Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne |  Richard Woolcott AC FAIIA-Former Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |  Samina Yasmeen AM FAIIA-Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Western Australia |
Question: What was the most significant international development in 2015?
| James Ingram AO FAIIA | The Paris Climate Accord and the decisive role played by Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping. |
 John McCarthy AO FAIIA | The refugee exodus. |
| Garry Woodard FAIIA | Obama’s quiet experiment to shrink exceptionalism (vulnerable to blow-back). |
| Jocelyn Chey AM FAIIA | The accord reached in Paris on the response to climate change. |
| Rawdon Dalrymple AO FAIIA | The beginning of the end of Europe as we have known it. |
| Erika Feller FAIIA | Russia’s escalation of its Syria involvement which may well accelerate the drive to solutions, one way or the other. |
| Graeme Dobell FAIIA | The waves of humanity sailing then walking into Europe, hope in their eyes and a mobile phone in hand, to be welcomed by Angela Merkel. |
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