Australia Should Lead on a Global No-First-Use Convention By Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur FAIIA 13 August 2014If it believes that nuclear weapons no longer pose a catastrophic threat today, current public opinion is seriously mistaken. As geopolitical tensions are […] Read More
AIIA Queensland President's Report for 2013-14 12 August 2014AIIA Qld President Geoffrey Ewing has delivered his President’s Report for 2013-14. Patronage and Fernberg Lecture The Governor of Queensland and the Queensland […] Read More
Issues Brief Colin Chapman11 August 2014The good news is that there is a new 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza. But newspapers have carried pictures of the seven-year-old Australian son […] Read More
Take it to the Banks Rajiv K Bhatia 11 August 2014An embrace of inspired, forward-thinking banking policies and regulations across both developed and developing economies is needed to accelerate global growth, writes India’s […] Read More
Afghanistan's Presidential Elections: Ghani or Abdullah? By Ian Dudgeon 11 August 2014US Secretary of State, John Kerry, makes a second, unannounced election-related visit to Kabul, as the country awaits the outcome of the recount […] Read More
A Push For Progression Lee Dong-hwi 08 August 2014G20’s transition to a broad political summit could benefit by introducing parallel Ministers meetings, establishing a secretariat and adopting institutional innovation, proposes South […] Read More
Issues Brief Colin Chapman08 August 2014The Middle East continues as a major focus of concern, although the emphasis has shifted to Iraq and Syria as a result of […] Read More
The End of Consensus Politics in China John Minnich 08 August 2014Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign is the broadest and deepest effort to purge, reorganize and rectify the Communist Party leadership since the […] Read More
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: 50 Years On By Professor Peter Edwards AM FAIIA 06 August 2014The first week of August marks not only the centenary of the guns of August 1914, but also the fiftieth anniversary of the […] Read More
Stepping Up The Pace – AIDS2014 Craig Beyerinck 06 August 2014The 20th International AIDS Conference, AIDS2014, was recently concluded in Melbourne Australia having been attended by 13,600 delegates from more than 190 countries. […] Read More
What Internet Memes Can Offer International Relations Research Caitlin Hamilton05 August 2014Internet memes offer a potentially rich source of data for International Relations research and there are many reasons […] Read More