Remember the Red Star? Russian Military Power in the Indo-Pacific By Associate Professor Alexey Muraviev 05 December 2018Recent geostrategic developments show the need for Australia to acknowledge Russia as an important strategic player in the region. Read More
The Sustainability of China’s High-Performance Computing Agenda By William Rooks 02 December 2018As world leaders gather to discuss climate change in Poland, the need to reduce emissions may hamper China’s development of big data and quantum processing. Read More
Seeing China Through a Washington Lens By Ciara Morris 25 November 2018 Balancing relations between China and the United States is arguably Australia's greatest foreign policy challenge in the 21st century. But is Australia getting it right? Read More
Great Power Bargaining: Syria for Ukraine? By Henry Storey 23 November 2018Ever since Trump’s election, a Syria for Ukraine swap has been touted as a way of limiting Iran’s footprint in Syria. Will we see moves towards this when Trump and Putin meet at the G20 Summit? Read More
Small State Diplomacy in Challenging Times By His Excellency Chris Seed 23 November 2018Through the judicious exercise of small state diplomacy, New Zealand has been able to exert a significant influence on international politics despite its limited hard power. Read More
Trampling the Grass: China-US Leadership Competition By Dr Peter Layton 22 November 2018As the APEC Summit showed, China-US competition will progressively revise the international system. Middle powers and smaller states alike will be continually called upon to make choices one way or the other. Read More
From PNG to Parliament and Beyond By Professor John Langmore and Cameron Christie 17 November 2018As APEC draws the world's attention to Papua New Guinea, this episode of AIIA VIC’s Dyason House Podcast features John Langmore on working in PNG in the lead-up to independence as well as his subsequent career in Parliament and the United Nations. Read More
Maintaining ASEAN’s Momentum By Tommy Chai 17 November 2018While the 33rd ASEAN Summit made significant progress, more is needed to live up to its theme of resilience and innovation against the fraying of the multilateral rules-based order. Read More
The Unlearned Lessons of Trade Wars By Professor Mark Beeson 14 November 2018Trade wars are not easy to win. In today’s world of complex transnational production structures they are self-destructive. The United States’ trade war with Japan in the 1980s is instructive. Read More
Feminist Approaches to International Relations By Professor Jacqui True FAIIA and Dr Maria Tanyag 14 November 2018Feminists around the world are making the case that the personal is political is international. Read More
Fuelling Asia: Russia Recalibrates its Foreign Energy Strategy By Dr Elizabeth Buchanan 11 November 2018Resource-rich Russia borders the region set to account for the majority of global energy demand. This has substantial implications for Australia. Read More