With world energy markets now in a period of considerable transformation, Australia should seize the opportunity to take a leading role in shaping the future architecture of global energy governance.

Reports of foreign election interference in the US, UK, and EU have brought our own vulnerability under closer examination. But do we have a sound understanding of what it all means?

Despite Australia’s record funding in gender equality and empowerment in overseas development assistance in recent years, much more needs to be done to boost gender equality as a mainstream objective in the health aid sector.

Although the recent decision concerning the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction on the Rohingya issue is encouraging, it cannot act alone to prevent crimes against humanity.

Reconceptualising illegal fishing as a security issue may prove an effective solution.

Australia's region is facing mounting maritime tensions. This tells us much about the fraying of international order and the capacity of international law to deal with maritime disputes.

Military covenants try to build civil-military relationships on the foundation of a social contract, but is that true for the Australian Defence Force?

At a time when hypermasculine figures dominate the world stage, it’s not possible to be sanguine about equality. A sustained and active effort is required to roll back sexism.

The rules-based international order has become a rhetorical centrepiece of Australian international policy. One of the challenges in the current moment is that the rules and principles that were built on the foundation of American primacy are being questioned as power shifts.

Australia is playing a major role in international economic rule-making through its aggressive pursuit of preferential trade agreements. So how well do the trade rules it is promoting help advance Australia's foreign policy objectives?

Legal protection of whistleblowers is integral to ensuring that public bodies uphold transparency and accountability values. However, international organisations often do not provide the same protections as democratic states such as Australia.