Foreign policy: Charting Australia’s diplomatic future
Wednesday
29th November
2017
CAITLIN BYRNE | In a rapidly changing world, the unveiling of the Foreign Policy White Paper, represents the closest…
Category Archive: Publications
Technological change and the 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper
Wednesday
29th November
2017
In November 2017, the Australian government released its Foreign Policy White Paper to a flurry of interest and speculation as…
Australia’s search for a China policy
Tuesday
28th November
2017
IAN HALL | The Sydney Morning Herald journalist Peter Hartcher recently opined that for all Donald J. Trump’s manifest faults, the…
Quo vadis, Australia?
Tuesday
28th November
2017
Foreign policy white papers can disappoint. More than white papers on domestic policy, they deal largely with the unknown. And,…
Australia’s Foreign Policy White Paper offers more wishful thinking than concrete ideas
Monday
27th November
2017
A white paper has many purposes and audiences. There are, for example, the other government departments, ministers, opposition, internal staff…
The Rohingya crisis and Myanmar’s military responses
Monday
27th November
2017
ANDREW SELTH | Since October 2016, when militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked three border police…
Wang Huning: China’s antidote to strongman politics
Friday
24th November
2017
In international politics, the concept of “soft power” is already well known. But in the Chinese domestic domain, the contest…
Coral Bell and the ‘concert of powers’ problem
Wednesday
22nd November
2017
IAN HALL | The End of the Vasco da Gama Era is vintage Coral Bell: bold and trenchant, with…
How should Australia defend itself against a rising China?
Monday
20th November
2017
PETER LAYTON | The rise of China is the big international relations issue of our time. Unsurprisingly then, various solutions…
APEC leaders’ meeting exposes policy fault line
Thursday
16th November
2017
With differing views on trade, multilateralism and the future of APEC itself, the latest APEC leaders’ meeting presented much more…