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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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Trump’s economy in a globalised world: tax cuts, tariffs and spending
After one of the most divisive elections in modern political history, the US election has now come and gone. The outcome leaves the...
Nov 21, 20166 min read
Jokowi vowed to fight corruption - so has he?
In July 2014 Joko Widodo became the fourth elected President of Indonesia since the resignation of Suharto in 1998. It was a meteoric...
Nov 20, 20163 min read
Trump’s hateful America: a Pandora’s Box has been opened whether he wanted it or not
In the wake of Donald J. Trump’s surprise election victory, the Southern Poverty Law Center has reported that they have collected over...
Nov 19, 20163 min read
More than money and fish: Duterte’s pivot to China
This year has been marked by the rise of populist and incendiary leaders. One such leader, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, has...
Nov 16, 20163 min read
Non-interference to global governance: China's shifting approach to international affairs
China’s official approach to international affairs has been traditionally one of ‘non-interference’. This approach was introduced by Zhou...
Nov 13, 20163 min read
Conflict in Somalia: More than a headline
Conflict has renewed in central Somalia. Such news is not uncommon; Somalia has effectively been at war for a quarter of a century....
Nov 11, 20164 min read
Free speech is never a joke
There was a time when freedom of speech would have been considered an unquestionable pillar of Australian democracy. Indeed, Australia’s...
Nov 9, 20164 min read
The gender agenda: Clinton and Trump’s abortion policies
More than 40 years after the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, in which abortion was legalised in the US, abortion...
Nov 8, 20163 min read
Taming the toothless tiger: The mixed legacy of Ban Ki-Moon
In late January 2007, a polished, affable South Korean career diplomat took over the reins of, what was once called by Dag Hammarskjöld,...
Nov 8, 20163 min read
Six burning questions for election day
As we are one day away the 58th US Presidential election on Tuesday 8 November, there are a number of critical and fascinating questions...
Nov 7, 20164 min read
How the RBA stole Christmas
Grinch economists at the Reserve Bank of Australia spent their Christmas in July ingeniously planning a new method of stealing Christmas....
Nov 6, 20164 min read
The latest controversy regarding the Al-Aqsa Mosque: implications for the Middle East peace process
The move by UNESCO on October 13 to condemn Israeli interference at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem is a development, which while...
Nov 6, 20164 min read
Indonesia’s LGBT community continues the struggle
2016 has not been a good year to be a member of Indonesia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Discrimination and...
Nov 2, 20163 min read
In the jungle of the southern Philippines
Within the first 100 days under President Rodrigo Duterte, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) reportedly launched 571 military...
Nov 1, 20164 min read
Forgotten Conflicts Part IV: Frozen conflicts and great power games
In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, its fifteen constituent republics established themselves as independent states in which...
Oct 27, 20164 min read
Trump's misogyny and its support base
The recent revelations of Trump's grotesque comments regarding women in 2005, which can potentially be read as an admission of sexual...
Oct 25, 20163 min read
UN environment conferences and civil society participation
The United Nations (UN) has been a permanent fixture in global politics since its inception in 1945. At the founding San Francisco...
Oct 23, 20164 min read
Burundi sparks trouble for the future of the International Criminal Court in Africa
On 12 October, members of the National Assembly of the Burundi Parliament voted by an overwhelming majority of 94 out of 110 in favour of...
Oct 21, 20163 min read
Thailand in mourning
Thailand has entered into a one-year mourning period following the death of the beloved King Bhumibol Adulyadej. After a year of...
Oct 19, 20163 min read
Mongolia succumbs to the ‘resource curse’
At the end of September Mongolia’s Prime Minister Erdenebat Jargaltulga announced that his country would be seeking IMF assistance to...
Oct 16, 20164 min read
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