Australia and the Sri Lankan Crisis of 2009 Renuga Inpakumar22 January 2024Australia’s involvement in the events surrounding the tragic massacres in the northeast of Sri Lanka in 2009 raises important questions about our nation’s […] Read More
Maintaining the Fight in Ukraine: Jake Sullivan Addresses World Leaders By Colin Chapman FAIIA 18 January 2024Despite political roadblocks to Ukraine assistance in the US, the Biden administration is optimistic that it’s support will not be disrupted. With Donald Trump’s march through the primaries begun, this optimism however may change. Read More
Can Australia Become a Renewable Energy Superpower? By Dr David Lee and Dr Ashok Sharma 11 January 2024Australia has big plans for renewable energies. Its diplomacy has symbolised to the world that it is open to change, but further investment in grid and energy capabilities is still lacking. Read More
Beijing’s Diplomacy of Anger at Taiwan: How the Chinese Art of War Avoids Red Lines By Professor Antonina Luszczykiewicz and Professor Patrick Mendis 15 December 2023China draws lessons from the past mistakes, cooling down tensions with the United States just one month before the Taiwan presidential elections in January 2024. For Taiwan, however, China’s military exercises inch closer. Read More
Shutdowns and Polarisation in the US Daniel Yang12 December 2023With only a few hours to spare before 1 October 2023, the US Government avoided a federal shutdown in a last-minute deal between […] Read More
Space Activities: Challenges to Safety and Security 12 December 2023On Tuesday 5 December 2023, Steven Freeland, Emeritus Professor of International Law at Western Sydney University, addressed the Institute on the challenges facing […] Read More
2024: China's Year of the Dragon Faces Challenging Economic Headwinds; The US Faces the Return of Trump By Colin Chapman FAIIA 08 December 20232023 was a bumper year for economic growth in the United States, not so for China, which continues to move backwards due to long run structural challenges and small appetite for reform. Even with such positive news, Trump continues to gain in the polls, threatening to undo the strong gains of the Biden administration and, no less, the Ukraine against Russia. Read More
After Stabilisation: Future Challenges in Australia-China Bilateral Relations 04 December 2023On Tuesday 28 November 2023, the Institute welcomed inaugural AIIA/China Matters Fellow Yun Jiang to speak about future […] Read More
Navigating the Perfect Storm: Australia Foreign Policy and the Polycrisis By Graeme Dobell FAIIA 30 November 2023Australia faces the new abnormality of a long-term weather system where geoeconomics and “sloppy protectionism” predominates. Navigating the “polycrisis” will require diversification and slightly more than simply hoping Washington will steady the ship of political upheaval. Read More
The Saint-Malo Accord and the Future of European Security and Deterrence By Colin Chapman FAIIA 23 November 2023Vladimir Putin may be hoping for a negotiated settlement on Ukraine, with the support of a weakened and defensively apathetic Europe. A revived Saint-Malo Accord may make this more difficult, a prospect the United Kingdom’s new foreign minister will certainly be trying to bolster. Read More
Sisyphus in Caracas (or how the Venezuelan opposition keeps on throwing stones on its own roof) By Dr Luis Angosto-Ferrández 23 November 2023In absence of a plan B for the 2024 presidential elections, support for Machado in the primary elections has brought afloat, yet again, the self-sabotaging tendencies that have characterised the Venezuelan opposition bloc over the past two decades. Read More