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YAIA's blog, Insights, is a platform aimed at promoting the voice of emerging young Australians in the analysis and commentary of International affairs.
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Digital diplomacy: international relations in the age of Trump
“Being nice to Rocket Man hasn't worked in 25 years, why would it work now? Clinton failed, Bush failed, and Obama failed. I won't fail.”...
Oct 23, 20174 min read
An Egyptian emissary in Australia
One might be forgiven for having missed it, but the Pope visited Australia in early September. He was here for ten days, from 30 August...
Oct 15, 20174 min read
The lost cradle of civilisation
Iraqi President Haider al-Albadi declared the recent destruction of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Iraq as a sign of the imminent demise...
Oct 13, 20173 min read
China’s intra urban divide: Migrant workers and the enduring legacy of the hukou system
The hukou (户口) residency-permit system continues to shape the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) socio-economic class structure and has a...
Oct 12, 20173 min read
A new era of cooperation between the European Union and Australia
Negotiations for an EU-Australia free trade agreement are building momentum with the signing of the EU-Australia Framework Agreement in...
Oct 11, 20172 min read
Japan's snap election: A symbol of a flawed system
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, stunned the country last Thursday by dissolving the lower house of parliament and setting a general election...
Oct 5, 20173 min read
Rohingya relations: Effects of structural discrimination on security
The current Rohingya exodus from Myanmar has drawn attention to the struggles of ethnic minorities and the international consequences...
Oct 3, 20174 min read
Nuclear power: The elephant in the room
Once deemed the most promising solution for decarbonising the world’s energy supply with reliable baseload electricity, nuclear power has...
Oct 2, 20173 min read
Catalonian independence: ¡Olé! or no way?
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has vehemently opposed the referendum for Catalonian independence set to be held on 1 October 2017. However,...
Sep 26, 20173 min read
Australia’s willful blindness to Cambodia’s slide into despotism
‘Descent Into Outright Dictatorship’ decried The Cambodia Daily in its final, defiant headline. A victim of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun...
Sep 21, 20173 min read
Why women? How gender equality enhances international security efforts
‘We must lead by example on gender equality and women's empowerment’, said United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres at last...
Sep 19, 20174 min read
Copper, gold and self-determination in Papua: Drawing parallels with Bougainville
In late August, it was announced that a long awaited deal between the US mining behemoth Freeport McMoRan and the Indonesian government...
Sep 12, 20173 min read
Independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan, not so simple
Iraqi Kurdistan has been made possible by US power projection. In the late 1980s, Iraq’s Kurds fell victim to Saddam Hussein’s genocidal...
Sep 7, 20174 min read
Why China won’t pressure North Korea enough to satisfy the West
The North Korean nuclear issue is the most complex and uncertain security challenge in Northeast Asia. As tensions on the Peninsula...
Sep 5, 20173 min read
One month on: How close were we to nuclear war?
The political scuffle that characterised late July to early August has precipitated a new chapter in the US-North Korea relationship. The...
Sep 5, 20174 min read
Fossil fuel divestment: Opposing the financing of climate change injustice
The fossil fuel divestment campaign, one of the important members of the climate change movement, reached its sixth birthday this month....
Sep 1, 20173 min read
Segregated communities in Europe and their links to terrorism
With the myriad Islamist terrorist attacks occurring in Europe in recent years, it has become paramount to thoroughly analyse the...
Sep 1, 20173 min read
Turnbull’s carte blanche on North Korea: has Australia been committed to war?
The incendiary rhetoric of both Washington and Pyongyang has been intensifying in past weeks. While the possibility of war on the Korean...
Aug 27, 20173 min read
Gender, peace and security
Trump’s recent statement that transgender people will no longer be able to serve in the US military brought the role of gender in peace...
Aug 24, 20172 min read
French secularism and the rise of terror
Again on the news has been yet another attack in France, this time on soldiers in Levallois-Perret, a suburb to the north of Paris. That...
Aug 23, 20173 min read
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