Fresh perspectives

Fresh Perspectives gives former AIIA interns, AIIA youth members, young professionals and other emerging scholars an opportunity to write a 500-750 word article covering a foreign affairs issue. For information for contributors see below.

05 Oct 2026
With Chinese development finance flowing into the Pacific and Western aid in record retreat, Canberra can't outspend Beijing. Australia's best
05 Oct 2026
When access to frontier AI models that promise to provide a decisive strategic advantage is withheld, adversaries may be tempted
01 Oct 2026
Australia's bid for a 2029–30 Security Council seat is all but certain to succeed. The harder test is the term
01 Oct 2026
As China is deepening its influence across Latin America’s strategic mineral supply chains, Australia faces an increasing risk of losing
24 Sep 2026
Cooperation across the Taiwan Strait can deliver real benefits while confrontation continues. Publicly testing specific commitments would help Taiwan preserve
24 Sep 2026
Five years after taking Kabul, the Taliban have proved more capable of governing than almost anyone predicted. The trouble is
22 Sep 2026
As Iran is increasingly viewed through the lens of war, nuclear tensions, and geopolitical rivalry, the Japanese anime Jaadugar: A
17 Sep 2026
International AI governance is entering a new phase as geopolitical competition shifts attention from regulating AI systems to securing the
17 Sep 2026
U.S. semiconductor export controls increasingly depend on cooperation with allies that control critical technologies but do not always share identical
11 Sep 2026
Quantum-enabled technology and artificial intelligence are quietly eroding the concealment tactics and decision time that nuclear deterrence has relied on
11 Sep 2026
Tech, talent, and data are intrinsically linked to methods of state secrecy, as is particularly the case in China. Notably,
08 Sep 2026
Pacific migrants must prove their English to enter New Zealand, then receive little support to sustain the languages they bring