Foreign policy: Charting Australia’s diplomatic future
CAITLIN BYRNE | In a rapidly changing world, the unveiling of the Foreign Policy White Paper, represents the closest thing the Turnbull government has… Read More
2017
Technological change and the 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper
In November 2017, the Australian government released its Foreign Policy White Paper to a flurry of interest and speculation as to how Australia will chart… Read More
Australia’s search for a China policy
IAN HALL | The Sydney Morning Herald journalist Peter Hartcher recently opined that for all Donald J. Trump’s manifest faults, the President has done one good… Read More
Quo vadis, Australia?
Foreign policy white papers can disappoint. More than white papers on domestic policy, they deal largely with the unknown. And, for small and medium-sized countries… Read More
Australia’s Foreign Policy White Paper offers more wishful thinking than concrete ideas
A white paper has many purposes and audiences. There are, for example, the other government departments, ministers, opposition, internal staff that have to breach the… Read More
The Rohingya crisis and Myanmar’s military responses
ANDREW SELTH | Since October 2016, when militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked three border police posts in Myanmar’s Rakhine State,… Read More
Wang Huning: China’s antidote to strongman politics
In international politics, the concept of “soft power” is already well known. But in the Chinese domestic domain, the contest for power is often dominated… Read More
Coral Bell and the ‘concert of powers’ problem
IAN HALL | The End of the Vasco da Gama Era is vintage Coral Bell: bold and trenchant, with plenty on which both academics… Read More
How should Australia defend itself against a rising China?
PETER LAYTON | The rise of China is the big international relations issue of our time. Unsurprisingly then, various solutions have been suggested to the… Read More
APEC leaders’ meeting exposes policy fault line
With differing views on trade, multilateralism and the future of APEC itself, the latest APEC leaders’ meeting presented much more to think about than the… Read More
