This is our final meeting for 2011, in a year that has been dominated by discussion about asylum seekers and refugees.  At this meeting, our focus will not be on boat people or people smugglers - or the jostling over policy between ...

The media coverage of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, better known as CHOGM, was below its normally poor levels, despite the fact the Commonwealth of Nations represents 54 independent countries, two billion people and one ...

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd will be the  guest of honour at the Australian Institute of International Affairs annual Charteris Dinner to be held at Tattersalls Club in Sydney on November ...

Over a recent 25-year period, energy consumption in the Asian region grew at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent, greatly exceeding the world average of 1.9 per cent. Both China and India have energy growth rates well above the Asian average. China has ...

In late October members of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), accompanied by officials from Defence and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, will be in Beijing for the annual Track1.5 strategic dialogue between Australia and China. ...

POSTPONED:  THIS EVENT WITH THE UNITED STATES CONSUL GENERAL IN SYDNEY, Niels Marquardt, HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL 2012

From World War II to Afghanistan television pictures are etched in our minds of stretcher bearers and paramedics wearing Red Cross badges moving across the line of fire to rescue the wounded and move them into ambulances or ...

The Prime Minister has commissioned a white paper from Ken Henry on the changes in Asia and their impact on Australia.

With Peter Khalil, Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for International Security Studies at Sydney University    The 2011 pro-democracy demonstrations across the Middle East and North ...

Come and select your new council. There are ten candidates for six seats, as outlined in the notice below.  

Turkey, according to George Friedman, author of two recent books The Next 100 Years and The Next Decade, is set to become a significant global power. The European Union is being ...

Roger Gyles, chairman of TIA, and Michael Ahrens, executive director, will lead a discussion on the issues confronting Australians in the context of globalization and the severe impact of corruption in many countries in the ...

The Asian security landscape is changing at a dramatic rate as China ventures into blue water capability, the Korean peninsula remains as tense as ever and Southeast Asian nations are developing their own military capability commensurate with their ...

REGISTRATION CLOSED 19/08/11         With acclaimed journalist and documentary film maker John Pilger  ...

  India’s emergence as a significant political and economic global power has had wide-

Presented by  Professor Richard Rigby & Colin Chapman During the days of what was called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, China's chairman Mao Zedong used regularly to insist "we will recapture Taiwan". Later, ...

Suddenly, the fear of a second GFC is spooking investors around the world.  How will this affect the future economic development of the Pacific region? Few would be better placed to provide us with the answers than our guest, Gavin ...

Meet a World Authority on Nuclear Weapons, Hans M Kristensen   The threat of nuclear war is seldom in the headlines, but it always with us. The prospect of a nuclear holocaust was ever present in the Cold War, but has now receded as Russia ...

Foreign policy is one area of government where most issues are bipartisan, as both sides of politics present a united front in pursuit of Australia’s national interest abroad.

ABC’s 4 Corners programme has recently screened the acclaimed documentary, Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields from Channel 4 in Britain.  The program forensically investigates allegations that up to 40,000 Tamil ...

Europe continues to draw attention for a variety of reasons. The economy is one, and perhaps the most pressing for now. However, there are other, more systemic issues at hand as the security landscape evolves, NATO's relevance is questioned, immigration ...

Vietnam was at war for almost all of the 20th century. But after humiliating the French and the United States, ...

There has been much talk of late about how China’s rise will affect international relations. Two big ideas dominate this ...

Terrorism in Indonesia has as of recent dropped off the radar—in Australia at least—given the lack of recent high profile incidents. But what goes largely unnoticed by the public  are the comprehensive ...

On July 1, Poland takes up the presidency of the European Union. In picking up the baton from France for the second half of this year, Polish ...

On the surface, the figures all look good. The Financial Times reports ...

The clinical execution of Osama Bin Laden in his redoubt in Pakistan has reminded us again of ...

On Wednesday May 11, the NSW AIIA will be hosting an evening with Nigel Roberts, Director of the World Bank's World Developement Report 2011. As his only public address in Sydney to launch this ...

In the space of only three months, we have seen political unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen. There are also signs of latent political volatility elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa, which are the pivotal oil exporting region ...