A question to tax the most devoted Australian foreign affairs tragic: Name the four Liberal foreign affairs ministers who served in the four […]

In analysing foreign policy, the great forces of national power and politics can dominate explanations and expectations. Personalities bob and weave through story. […]

The AIIA is pleased to present the latest book in the Australian Ministers for Foreign Affairs series, Ministers for Foreign Affairs 1960-1972.  Edited by Melissa Conley Tyler, […]

R.G. Casey: Minister for External Affairs 1951-1960 The Australian Institute of International Affairs has published a book exploring aspects of the tenure of […]

The AIIA publishes the definitive series Australia in World Affairs on Australia’s foreign policy. This book series has been published since 1950 and is currently […]

With the Pacific Islands Forum to be held in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, toward the end of the year, all eyes are on the United States to meet its promises to address regional concerns about nuclear proliferation. Australia needs to call on the Biden administration, and importantly the US Senate, to recognise the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty. 

Sir James Plimsoll Lecture 29 November 2022 University of Tasmania  The Decade Ahead: Disruptive, Disorderly and Dangerous   Chancellor, […]

Despite the succession process now having entered its seventh year, and with Prime Minister Lee already 70, the People’s Action Party government is no closer to a formal hand over of power. The usual appearance of a smooth and consensus-based leadership transition has begun to crack. 

From war to global finance to leadership in the UK, and many places in between, there is much uncertainty. Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s conceptualisation of the known and unknown is particularly relevant right now.

Perhaps no other leader has shaped the modern strategic landscape of the Indo-Pacific as much as Shinzo Abe. He will be missed.

At long last, Boris Johnson will vacate the UK prime ministership, and with it, leadership of the Tory party. But who will take his place?