Australian Outlook Blog Posts

06 Mar 2014
The challenge Australia faces as chair of the G20 this year is to reverse the widespread perception that the group
05 Mar 2014
As the foreign minister, Julie Bishop considers whether to scrap the Australia Network, ABC International CEO Lynley Marshall talks to
03 Mar 2014
The crisis in Ukraine has escalated dramatically over the weekend, with Crimea having been successfully invaded by 6,000 airborne and ground troops in what could
28 Feb 2014
Expert Panel-Fellows of the AIIA Hilary Charlesworth FAIIA-Professor, ANU; Director of Centre for International Governance and Justice Jocelyn Chey AM
17 Feb 2014
The Australian Institute of International Affairs National President, John McCarthy, outlines the challenges Australia is likely to face in 2014.
17 Feb 2014
Ukraine’s Maidan revolution this week culminated in the overthrow of President Yanukovich. Even so, clamours of a ‘democratic triumph’ would
13 Feb 2014
Richard Haass describes himself as a “card-carrying member of the foreign policy establishment”. It would be hard to disagree. He
12 Feb 2014
KAISER Wilhem II of Germany was a ``scatterbrained buffoon’’ fond of sabre rattling and scribbling rage-filled rants on the margins
07 Feb 2014
Scotland’s independence referendum—pursued by the political elite rather than driven by a grassroots movement—raises questions about the viability of secession.
06 Feb 2014
The nuclear security nexus between India and Pakistan remains treacherous. Given the inapplicability of Mutual Assured Destruction concepts, an alternative
06 Feb 2014
The alignment of various nation-state laws by implementation of international conventions has been a work in progress that has had
05 Feb 2014
One of the characteristics of today’s Asia is its asymmetric rivalries, including Japan’s rivalry with China, China’s with the United