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.

09 Jul 2019
Between 28-29 June, G20 leaders successfully produced substantial achievements on the central trade questions and many development, social, ecological and
06 Jul 2019
Despite Iran’s frustrating tactics and stubbornness, the nation's leaders may well know they must renegotiate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
06 Jul 2019
Australia never once purported to exercise its right to grant diplomatic asylum despite quite exceptionally choosing to assert the existence
04 Jul 2019
The Australian prime minister’s first foreign policy speech last week repositioned Australia as a creative middle power that seeks to
04 Jul 2019
While diversification is sometimes presented as a simple fix to apparent economic over-dependence on China, no amount of hoping will
03 Jul 2019
The last five years have seen a marked increase in the number of women representing Australia at senior levels in
02 Jul 2019
Had the leading “centre-left” parties been willing to see Palestinian citizens of Israel as equal, they could challenge the right-wing
02 Jul 2019
With the Sino-Russian relationship ostensibly at its best time in history, it is by no means a relationship between equals.
30 Jun 2019
Seventy years since the UN Declaration of Human Rights, there still remains a way to go in addressing the root
27 Jun 2019
Nuclear negotiations with North Korea are developing at head-spinning speed. After his shock at the breakdown of talks in Hanoi,
26 Jun 2019
ASEAN has a critical role to play in the crisis facing the Rohingya people in Myanmar, with its annual summit
26 Jun 2019
The 2015 “reinterpretation” of Japan’s Constitution presents Abe with a new dilemma should the United States request that Japan assist