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.

07 Mar 2017
It is just over a year since the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade adopted a 'Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment'
27 Feb 2017
Trade Minister Steven Ciobo’s recent visit to China confirmed the end of efforts to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The question
19 Feb 2017
The UN Special Rapporteur to Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, has been visiting Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh this week, gathering more
13 Feb 2017
Last weekend's North Korean missile test came after a series of nuclear weapons-related actions and announcements by the new US administration.
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