Analysis

This section provides commentary and perspectives on international issues. Articles are primarily sourced on a commission basis from a wide variety of contributors including academic, diplomatic, institutional, government and non-government organisations; however unsolicited pieces can be submitted.

Articles are around 800-1000 words covering any topic in international affairs.

05 Jan 2021
A decade ago, WikiLeaks shocked the world with revelations of US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. How Assange’s popular
04 Jan 2021
COVID-19 has closed borders, reversed globalisation, decoupled supply chains, and marginalised multilateral institutions.  It has been far more effective than
01 Jan 2021
Amid the frenzy of the final stages of the U.S. presidential campaign, the fifth plenum of the 19th Chinese Communist
01 Jan 2021
The United States’ recent clarification of its position on maritime claims in the South China Sea is a small win
31 Dec 2020
Donald Trump’s recent executive order calling for a ban of social video broadcasting app TikTok in the United States has
31 Dec 2020
This year, Australia has faced a perfect storm of shocks to its trade and investment relationships. The national debate has
30 Dec 2020
ASEAN is now 53 years old. All dialogue partners now pay ritual obeisance to “ASEAN centrality,” yet ASEAN’s relevance is
30 Dec 2020
This is an article published earlier this year and selected by our committee of commissioning editors as one of the
29 Dec 2020
COVID-19 and its attendant health and economic impacts have left no part of the world untouched. As the year has
28 Dec 2020
Parasite was named Best Picture at this year's Oscars, the first non-English language film to take the top prize in
28 Dec 2020
COVID-19 has transformed surveillance. From shotgun temperature checks to sewage monitoring at the microbiological level, the manner in which biological
29 Oct 2020
Little analytical heed has been paid to the particular effects of Indonesia’s democratic transition on its relations with Australia. Indonesia’s