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.

02 Apr 2020
In responding to the dreaded Coronavirus outbreak, governments on a war footing face a policy dilemma: remedy or overkill? It
02 Apr 2020
The term “Indo-Pacific” has become increasingly present in Australian foreign policy discourses, particularly in terms of democracy promotion.  Yet perceptions
02 Apr 2020
The future of Afghanistan seems to be predicated on a truce by trial and error.  The United States is the
01 Apr 2020
COVID-19 is set to impact US foreign policy, US-China geopolitics, and great power politics in the Post-COVID-19 world. Now is
01 Apr 2020
Women are promoting, mobilising, and leading social movements around the globe.  In Iraq, women directly confront deeply-rooted traditional and religious
01 Apr 2020
International pandemics can highlight the pitfalls of international politics. Alternately, they can present new avenues for cooperation. At the last
31 Mar 2020
Most people have been lulled into a false sense of security about nuclear weapons, believing that with the end of
31 Mar 2020
Trying to overcome the current global crisis, countries are studying all the possible courses of actions to mitigate or arrest
26 Mar 2020
It seems harder, every year, to predict with any certainty how Australia’s external environment will change. It is necessary to
26 Mar 2020
A pandemic is the kind of crisis that is at once typically national, yet also poses a challenge at the
25 Mar 2020
Politics in Kenya is dominated by rapacious elites consumed with looting state resources and using violence to avoid any possible
24 Mar 2020
East Asia financial cooperation reaches a milestone on 24 March 2020, which marks the 10th anniversary of the Chiang Mai