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.

08 Jan 2021
Narratives of isolation and self-sufficiency have arisen in attempt to curb the spread of disease. Like the Global Financial Crisis
07 Jan 2021
Unassuming and quiet is sometimes the best way to govern in a pandemic. Southeast Asia’s most overlooked nation, Brunei, has
05 Jan 2021
Southeast Asian nations have had varied responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Singapore shows great competence in handling the outbreak, while
04 Jan 2021
As Australia hopefully emerges from the worst of the 2019/2020 bushfires, it is quickly becoming apparent that the tourism industry
25 Dec 2020
As new national security laws prompt states to reevaluate the future direction of their relationships with Hong Kong, Australia has
22 Oct 2020
UN peacekeeping dangerously overlooks the reality that peace operations have both unintended and negative consequences. Any intervention into the politics
18 Dec 2020
The International Court of Justice rendered a judgment last week that may have slipped under the radar at this heady
16 Oct 2020
There is nothing sinister in the federal government’s desire to control Australia’s foreign policy. However, proposed legislation to scrutinise “arrangements”
16 Dec 2020
Although overseas arrivals precipitated Italy’s second lockdown, migrants arriving from Africa and the Middle East are not super spreaders of
08 Oct 2020
Australian-British academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert remains imprisoned in Iran on charges of espionage after attending an academic conference in Qom two
08 Oct 2020
The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) came into effect on the 1st of January 2005, after being signed the
07 Oct 2020
Paris and Beijing want to enjoy the fruits of economic cooperation. However, stark variations in worldview, political standpoints, and global