Analysis

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11 Nov 2014
APEC leaders meet today in Beijing , 25 years after the APEC process was launched in Canberra in 1989. According
10 Nov 2014
According to the World Bank’s Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Bertrand Badré, the G20 of the future can play a powerful role
07 Nov 2014
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa continues unabated, with a death toll to date exceeding all previous outbreaks combined. The
06 Nov 2014
Senator the Hon Brett Mason opened the Australian Institute of International Affairs' National Conference on 27 October with the following
05 Nov 2014
Graeme Dobell reports on AIIA National President John McCarthy's remarks at the AIIA National Conference. The former diplomatic mandarins of Oz think Australia
04 Nov 2014
With a growing demand for a champion across a multitude of crucial issues, the G20 will eventually evolve into the major
03 Nov 2014
If G20 cannot add a few digits to its name, then future Summits must ensure that non-member economic powers aren’t
31 Oct 2014
Just a few years ago a number of books were released which celebrated an ‘Australia moment’, where the nation was
31 Oct 2014
Great powers rise and fall on the tide of history. The transition is not always peaceful and linear, but often
29 Oct 2014
Australia will rotate off the UN Security Council on 31 December 2014. As previously outlined here, there have been several high-profile
29 Oct 2014
At the Saint Petersburg 2013 Summit, G20 countries made a number of concrete commitments and turning them into results will
28 Oct 2014
The Australian Institute of International Affairs ran a high-quality conference in Canberra yesterday around the theme of ‘Foreign Policy for