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INSIGHTS
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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Agents of influence in the little red dot
Since the beginning of August, the balconies of Singapore’s endless apartment blocks have been littered with the young city-state’s...
Aug 22, 20173 min read
The forced migration of Pacific Islanders
Environmental disasters causing the forced movement of people is not a new phenomenon, but climate change is increasing the frequency and...
Aug 19, 20173 min read
Prolonged peacekeeping: challenges preventing a MONUSCO withdrawal from the DRC
The United Nations has been present in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for more than 50 years. The Second Congo War, which...
Aug 16, 20173 min read
ISIL's black, bothersome future
The battle for Mosul, between Iraqi security forces and the so-called ‘Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL), is officially...
Aug 14, 20173 min read
Escalating tensions in Yemen
Located at a strategic trade and territorial nexus, Yemen has become a major flashpoint for Saudi and Iranian proxy warfare, with both...
Aug 7, 20173 min read
The destruction of cultural heritage in the Middle East and North Africa
Three years ago in June, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took up the pulpit of the 850-year-old Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul’s Old City and declared the...
Aug 4, 20174 min read
Despite optimistic projections, South Korea’s economy still caught in a sea of woes
The South Korean government announced a projected economic growth rate of 3% for 2017/18 on Tuesday 25 July, up from its earlier outlook...
Aug 3, 20173 min read
North Korea: is there really an easy solution almost 70 years on?
Before leaving office, President Obama reportedly warned then President-elect Donald Trump that the North Korean dilemma would be the...
Aug 2, 20173 min read
Legitimacy by cinema: China's 'civilianisation' of the South China Sea
On 23 July 2017, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported the opening of China’s southernmost cinema on Yongxing, or Woody Island, in...
Aug 1, 20173 min read
Learning to live with a nuclear North Korea
US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley recently claimed that the US is willing to use force if it must against North Korea if it...
Jul 31, 20173 min read
Protectionism and rule of law impede China’s free trade ambitions
Free trade between China and foreign countries must, by definition, be an open, two-way process. Chinese firms regularly allege...
Jul 30, 20173 min read
Liu Xiaobo’s death in custody epitomises China’s steadfast intransigence toward human rights
Liu Xiaobo, celebrated literary critic, rebel scholar, Nobel Peace Prize winner and democracy activist, sadly passed away from liver...
Jul 28, 20173 min read
Trump’s politics of recognition
In the reckoning that has followed the November elections, it has been tirelessly repeated that Clinton failed to gain the support of...
Jul 28, 20174 min read
Can South Korea age gracefully?
We live in a world of acute disproportions, and South Korea proves more punitively disproportionate than most. Whether it is concentrated...
Jul 27, 20173 min read
Dissecting the Australian response to the Marawi Siege
Separatist movements have been brewing for years on the southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines. However, it’s only with the...
Jul 27, 20173 min read
Violence cost the world $14.3 trillion in 2016—who’s picking up the bill?
We all are. Governments continue to funnel a seemingly endless stream of money into treating the symptoms of violence rather than...
Jul 26, 20173 min read
Amending Japan’s pacifist principle is the least of Abe’s problems
In May, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his intention to revise Japan’s pacifist principle by 2020. While this move is...
Jul 25, 20173 min read
The Marawi crisis highlights Duterte’s foreign policy fantasy
The siege in Marawi began on 23 May, when the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) launched a flunked offensive in an attempt to capture...
Jul 24, 20173 min read
A European comeback
The beginning of a new school year is both exciting and nerve-wracking. Over the summer holidays, friendships break and new friendships...
Jul 19, 20173 min read
Funding energy storage: is a 100% renewable energy grid within reach?
In the wake of Elon Musk’s announcement that Tesla will partner with French utility company Neoen to deliver the world’s largest lithium...
Jul 19, 20173 min read
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