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.

03 Feb 2017
Malaysia and Singapore are lauded as successful examples of newly independent states that should be emulated by Third World countries.
23 Jan 2017
While President Robert Mugabe is on annual leave in China, Zimbabwe’s acting president has changed twice. In a one-party state
16 Jan 2017
The election of Donald Trump reflects a crisis of the US state, with the erosion of the legitimacy of political
14 Jan 2017
Foreign ministers from the Association of South East Asian Nations met in Yangon late last year to discuss Myanmar’s Rohingya
09 Jan 2017
Zimbabwe’s contemporary foreign policy has been coloured by anti-imperialist proclamations that the country will never be a colony again. These
03 Jan 2017
Autonomous technologies are rapidly advancing in multiple industries; from transport to manufacturing, artificial intelligence is gaining steam. Military AI, however,
03 Jan 2017
While China seeks stability on its periphery, North Korea continues to upset regional security with domestic problems and a nuclear
23 Dec 2015
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has forged a new foreign policy approach for Indonesia since assuming office in October 2014. The
18 Dec 2015
This week trade ministers from across the globe came together for the 10th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
18 Dec 2015
In September 2009, an article from the Economist detailed a significant lack of counterinsurgency tactics in the original Star Wars sci-fi blockbusters. The
13 Dec 2015
It is a historic and game changing moment for the global youth peacebuilding movement: on 9 December 2015, the United Nations Security Council
09 Dec 2015
Central Asia does not fit comfortably in Europe or the Middle East and can present a challenge for Australian policymakers.