International Relations

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Evelyn Goh, ANU Fifty years on from what US president Richard Nixon called ‘the week that changed the world’, it is appropriate to recall one of the most radical…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Sourabh Gupta, Institute for China-America Studies On 28 February 1972, the United States and China issued the Shanghai Communique. The document marks a pivotal moment in the history of China’s…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Larissa Stünkel, ISDP As Australia gears up for national elections, tensions surrounding the nation’s foreign policy trajectory are becoming unmistakable — particularly when it comes to Taiwan and its…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Andrew Selth, Griffith Asia Institute Since the February 2021 coup, resistance to the junta in Myanmar has grown from protest rallies and civil disobedience campaigns to a nation-wide civil…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Anthony V Rinna, Sino-NK Tensions between Russia and the West over a feared Russian military intervention in Ukraine has escalated with fears of an imminent invasion. South Korea’s relationship…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Ryan Hass, Brookings Institution ‘America is back’, Joe Biden proclaimed in his first address as president to a global audience. Over the year that followed, the Biden administration delivered…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Ali Riaz, Illinois State University Bangladesh remained firmly under the grip of the incumbent Bangladesh Awami League in 2021. The ruling party faced no formidable opposition, the country celebrated…