How does one go from being a transnational recruiter for the world’s largest Islamist organisation, Hizb ut-Tahrir, to debating the

On retirement in 1998, I was given almost unreserved access by Foreign Affairs and Trade to a rich archive of

Today, trade, educational and developmental aid and maritime security are driving forces in Australian-Indian bilateral relations. Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie

The notorious telegram of 1945 which peremptorily ordered young Australian diplomat Patrick Shaw to a third post in as many

Feared, admired and often lampooned, Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria was a powerful figure in Australian political and intellectual circles from the

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South Asia is certainly in need of transformation. Riven by border disputes, home to two nuclear powers (with a third

When the Grand Master states “human beings…are inherently vicious” and “power politics in Asia is as old as the first

This book illuminates the persona of Émile Lahood as both a President and a man who shaped Lebanon’s struggle for

Richard Haass describes himself as a “card-carrying member of the foreign policy establishment”. It would be hard to disagree. He

KAISER Wilhem II of Germany was a ``scatterbrained buffoon’’ fond of sabre rattling and scribbling rage-filled rants on the margins