Wenran Jiang, the founding director of the China Institute and Mactaggart Research Chair Emeritus at the University of Alberta, is an adviser at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy.

Dr. Aditya Joshi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He specialises in foundational and applied natural language processing (NLP): the field of ...

The approach is not doctrinal, but is about speaking frankly to both Washington and Beijing. Here is a foreign minister speaking about Australia’s China debate: “We Australians tend to have a habit, a ...

Imagine a scene worthy of Orwell’s worst nightmare: a United Nations envoy, appointed to report on human rights violations, excellently performing in her job despite formidable difficulties, and met ...

The flare-up in fighting between Thailand and Cambodia in the Dangrek Ranges reflects a longstanding disagreement about border demarcation.

As the world watches the destruction of Gaza unfold in real time, the legitimacy of international law faces a crisis more profound than any it has seen since its post-WWII codification. The issue is ...

Japan’s political landscape changed significantly on 20 July 2025 with the triennial upper house elections delivering a stinging blow to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition ...

Caitlin Macdonald is undertaking a PhD in the School of Art, Communication and English at the University of Sydney. Her doctoral research, which focuses on human and animal relationships and ...

Tide turning on government climate accountability July 29, 2025 In 2013, Dutch environmental group Urgenda and 900 citizens sued their government to force stronger climate action. In 2019, the Dutch ...

Gareth Evans, as usual, touches a nerve. Universities often claim they are cancelling humanities courses to focus on programs that lead directly to employment. But this is misleading. Humanities ...

I am a writer, journalist, and editor, originally from Israel. My writing has appeared in The New York Times, Haaretz, Vice, Jacobin, Huffington Post, The Independent, Jewish Currents, Medium, ...

Ruwaida Kamal Amer is a science teacher from Khan Younis in Gaza who since the outbreak of the present conflict has written widely about its devastating effects on people of all ages. She has ...