Analysis

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21 Nov 2014
The Brisbane G20 was a considerable achievement – but there’s still work to do, explains Colin Chapman. An ABC reporter
20 Nov 2014
The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement is as much in China's interests as Australia's, argues director of the University of Sydney's China Studies Centre
18 Nov 2014
APEC and G20 are over. How do they compare, asks Tony Makin? This year the two most significant events for
18 Nov 2014
Continuing the debate ignited by the Australian Institute of International Affairs' National Conference, Rod Lyon argues that Australia should see itself
17 Nov 2014
How does the G20 remain relevant in the future? Avoid overlapping with existing multilateral forums, focus on one core issue
16 Nov 2014
Dr Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, suggests that as we enter a period of relative economic
14 Nov 2014
On the eve of the Brisbane 2014 Summit and Australia’s first presidency of the G20, Sherpa Dr Heather Smith discusses just
13 Nov 2014
Allow more members, risk unwieldiness. Stay exclusive, face irrelevance. Aim too big, lose focus. Aim too low, lose sight of
12 Nov 2014
Brisbane is the host city for the 2014 G20 Leaders’ Summit, an event that is being called the most significant
11 Nov 2014
The anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall this week shows that Germany's story is not one long happily-ever-after.
11 Nov 2014
The APEC meeting in Beijing today shows the competition between rival free trade areas the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the
11 Nov 2014
APEC leaders meet today in Beijing , 25 years after the APEC process was launched in Canberra in 1989. According