Looking beyond Ukraine: A view from Australia
Friday
11th February
2022
ELIZABETH BUCHANAN | Writing on current geopolitical affairs, let alone trying to predict what 125,000 Russian troops will do…
Category Archive: Region | India and South Asia
Nepal’s eroding judicial independence leaves Supreme Court in limbo
Tuesday
21st December
2021
BIKRAM TIMILSINA | Nepal’s Supreme Court is in crisis due to unprecedented protests from its justices and lawyers. Despite…
Making Indo-Pacific alliances fit for deterrence
Thursday
23rd December
2021
STEPHAN FRUEHLING AND ANDREW O’NEIL | As great-power competition intensifies, the role of deterrence and the potential for escalation…
Advancing foreign investment in APEC
Monday
30th August
2021
TONY MAKIN | Since the early 1990s, international trade growth has persistently eclipsed foreign investment growth in the…
Australia’s closed border is costing the economy $36.5 million a day
Tuesday
8th June
2021
Australia doesn’t expect to reopen its international borders until well into 2022. The border has been closed since March 2020.
Regional wrap
Thursday
14th March
2019
Intellectual discourse during the last fortnight focused heavily on the events and outcomes of the preceding one; several questions remain…
Regional wrap
Thursday
25th April
2019
The last fortnight was marred by yet another man-made tragedy in this part of the world, a terrorist attack…
The Quad gives a boost to India’s vaccine diplomacy
Wednesday
17th March
2021
The most notable takeaway from the first-ever “Quad” leaders meeting involving the US, India, Japan and Australia at the weekend…
Vaccine diplomacy and Nepal
Tuesday
19th January
2021
In the contemporary world, the notion that knowledge belongs to humanity has significantly faltered. Instead, scientific innovations such as Covid-19…
Ad hoc arrangements or multiplying multilaterals?
Monday
18th January
2021
The Macquarie Dictionary recently released its word(s) of the year for 2020: doomscrolling and rona. When it comes to…