How is the concept of rules-based order currently employed in debates and discussions as to its existence, fragility, nature and content?

The World Cup final drew millions of enthusiastic viewers around the world, including young men in impoverished regions who dream of sporting success as the only way to escape poverty.

Chinese people once regarded Australia as a friendly, safe, stable country with a beautiful natural environment and reliable system of law and government. Now, Australia-China relations have surely never been more critical.

Waves of foreign investment and trade have been essential features of Australian development. In our burgeoning relationship with China, we have for the first time an agency of the Australian government effectively undermining our relationship with our major trading partner.

The number of countries that find the Indo-Pacific a useful way of interpreting the world is growing. But each country has its own Indo-Pacific.

The Indonesia-Australia relationship has warmed up since the rocky years of the Soeharto era. To continue progress towards a true “soulmate” relationship between close neighbours, cross-cultural understanding must be cultivated through people-to-people contact.

The Australian Institute of International Affairs has recently been featured across a number of media outlets. National Executive Director Melissa Conley Tyler wrote […]

Vladimir Putin’s portrayal in the Western media often resembles that of a comic book villain. The Russian President […]

Speech delivered on 10 April at AIIA NSW on “Russiaphobia and the Perils of a New Cold War’.   Thank you Ian Lincoln […]

Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya has passed the threshold for action under the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. As a regional leader, Australia has a duty to act.

Since the beginning of the year, protests around the world—including in Australia—have drawn attention to the dispute over the use of the name Macedonia. What position should Canberra take?