Rare Earths, Rare Opportunities: Australia's Crucial Role in the Green Transition By Dr Daniel Borer and Dr. Nhung Vu Thi Hong 16 April 2024Rare Earth Elements are becoming increasingly important in the world’s green transition. Australia should become a more proactive contributor. Read More
Strategic Advantages of India in Shaping the Global Order By Talal Rafi 12 April 2024India, being the largest country by population, has a great responsibility and right to show global leadership. Having chaired the recent G20 summit successfully, and as a member of important global partnerships such as BRICS and QUAD, India is strategically placed to play a crucial role in geopolitics in the coming decades. Read More
12 April 2024: The Week in Australian Foreign Affairs By Dr Adam Bartley 12 April 2024This week in Australian foreign affairs: Japan considered for AUKUS Pillar II; the Australia-Japan-Philippines-United States Maritime Cooperative Activity; special adviser announced to investigate Israel Defense Forces strikes; Julie Bishop to be United Nations Special Envoy on Myanmar, and more. Read More
Disaster Resilience: An Enduring Public Conversation By Latika M Bourke 12 April 2024The media and the public's role in disaster resilience must be transformed. Insights from Japan, Fiji, and Tonga illustrate that we can derive important lessons from our friends and neighbours. Read More
Book Reviews: A Farewell to Wars By John Tilemann 12 April 2024In the shadow of the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East it is challenging to imagine a farewell to wars. Hans Blix’s latest book surveys modern international relations, and with the critical mind of a lawyer and diplomatic practitioner, demonstrates how, over the last two centuries, the international system has accepted growing constraints on interstate use of force. Read More
Trade Tensions: It's Not Trump or Biden, It's the Discontents By Ken Heydon 12 April 2024Geo-strategic rivalry and concerns of supply-chain vulnerability are driving the weaponisation of trade policy for other goals. But suppressing and distorting trade is bad for global growth and development, and ineffective in attaining those other goals. Some key Australian activities are directly in the firing line. Read More
Kishida’s State Visit to Washington: US-Japan alliance still the linchpin to Indo-Pacific Peace and Stability By Professor Stephen Nagy 10 April 2024The state visit of Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio to the United States this week has been billed as a doubling down of Japan on the US Japan alliance. In reality, it is a continuation of the incremental and sustained investment in the bilateral relationship over decades to deal with regional and global security challenges. Read More
China’s J-10C Fighters and Strategic Manoeuvres in Chinese Arms Exports By Samuel Ng 09 April 2024China promotes advanced indiginous fighter jet for international sale, adding new competition to a market dominated by Western defence firms. Whether the J-10C can reach the gold standard of marketable fighter jets is still in question. Read More
Book Review: China Incorporated By Dylan M. H. Loh 08 April 2024How should the West view China’s rise on the global stage? Kerry Brown’s China Incorporated challenges common misconceptions of China’s rise and ambitions. Read More
Total Defence for the 21st Century? By Dr Joakim Berndtsson 05 April 2024In the face of increased security threats, Nordic countries turn once again to total or defence models. Yet rebuilding these whole-of-society structures comes with structural as well as political and social challenges that will take both time and resources to overcome. Read More
Remembering Rwanda By Dr Gavin Mount 05 April 2024On 7 April, commemoration ceremonies will be held in Kigali and around the world to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide which occurred over a 100 day period from April to July in 1994. Looking back over three decades, what do we now know about the event and its causes? Read More