Afghanistan: then and now
Monday
23rd August
2021
YAN ISLAM | Afghanistan is in the news these days as the Taliban, ousted from power following the…
Posts by Griffith Asia Institute
A culture of insecurity
Friday
20th August
2021
MARK BEESON | It’s not too controversial to suggest that the global environment isn’t in great shape, or even…
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 18 August
Wednesday
18th August
2021
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Significant changes mooted ahead of elections in PNG Papua New Guinea is scheduled to hold…
Energy poverty and inequality in Sri Lanka
Friday
13th August
2021
MANEKA JAYASINGHE, SELVA SELVANATHAN AND SAROJA SELVANATHAN | Energy poverty is defined as the absence of sufficient…
Responding to China’s unending grey-zone prodding
Thursday
12th August
2021
PETER LAYTON | The best way to counter China’s grey-zone activities may be a measured…
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 11 August
Wednesday
11th August
2021
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Pacific Islands Forum leaders meet online The leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) met…
Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision for a just and equitable post-colonial world, with India leading the way
Tuesday
10th August
2021
IAN HALL | Jawaharlal Nehru was not just the architect of modern India and the country’s first prime minister. He…
It’s gold, gold, gold for Japan and its uplifting Games
Monday
9th August
2021
ROWAN CALLICK | Two months ago The Economist castigated Japan for its obduracy—one dictionary definition, “stubborn persistence in wrongdoing”—for…
Preparing Australia to respond to disasters—at home and abroad
Friday
6th August
2021
PETER LAYTON | The COVID pandemic relentlessly rolls on but prescribed burns have now also begun across…
Road to COP26: Timeline of Pacific diplomacy
Thursday
5th August
2021
TESS NEWTON CAIN | ‘Climate diplomacy’ encompasses the interactions, practices and protocols through which state and non-state…