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.

26 Aug 2019
The Pacific Islands Forum clearly displayed Australia’s adamant position on not comprising its current coal-intensive interests. However, the focus should
26 Aug 2019
With the looming formation of a new coalition government between old and new forces, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
19 Aug 2019
The Philippines and Australia are both equally vulnerable to cyberattacks and could benefit in engaging in a strategic partnership to
12 Aug 2019
The recently concluded 12th Extra-Ordinary Summit of the African Union in Niamey, Niger formally launched the operational phase of the Africa Continental Free Trade
06 Aug 2019
Brazil’s current administration is turning the country into an “exterminator of the future” and is interfering with emerging data on
23 Jul 2019
Despite the vast opportunities to increase India-Australia maritime cooperation, different traditional instincts about security collaboration and both states’ fear of
23 Jul 2019
Live and rolling media coverage of international crises exemplified the media’s power over policymaking agendas. But with the media landscape
14 Jul 2019
Despite greater unity on the concept of the “free and open Indo-Pacific,” the renewed Quadrilateral Security Dialogue may suffer from
14 Jul 2019
Track Two dialogues, like the recent Asia-Pacific Roundtable (APR), transverse the barriers between official and unofficial and allow participants to
09 Jul 2019
Despite their regional proximity, the political engagement of youth in recent major elections in Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia has differed
01 Jul 2019
Turkey’s acquisition of the Russian S-400 missile system is seriously challenging its relationship with the United States and its place
21 Jun 2019
India’s masculine prime minister formulates policy based on polarisation and Pakistan-bashing. The result is that protecting cows, constructing temples and