An overly sanguine response would nonetheless ignore the fact that the immediate result of an anti-China ruling might be no more than formalized rejection of its actions, which will likely continue apace.
Author: James Bowen
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Europe has yet to pursue the offshore processing model that is the subject of the recent ruling. Nonetheless, a form of Australia’s strict border controls have been creeping into the continent’s policies and formal discussions for some time.
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Post-Cold War criticism of the Council seems to ignore the fact that the pre-1990s power struggles between the US and Soviet Union, and those countries in their respective spheres of influence, had a similarly, if not more pronounced, paralyzing effect on decision-making.
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New book City of Thorns details the lives of nine individuals in Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee complex.
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A single question has dominated the Australian foreign policy debate for more than a decade: If push comes to shove between its military bulwark, the United States, and its economic benefactor, China, whose side will it take?
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The disconnection between message and tangible realities is likely to blame for the lack of meaningful outcomes attributed to countering violent extremism.
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Farea Al-Muslimi, Visiting Fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center and Chairman of the youth-oriented Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies, discusses the situation in Yemen ahead of scheduled peace talks.
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Former Afghani Interior Minister Ali A, Jalali discusses the challenges of rebuilding institutions and state-society relations following periods of conflict and instability.
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Climate Action Network Director Wael Hmaidan discusses the prospects for a legally binding agreement coming from climate talks in Paris at the end of the month.
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The great risk remains that this pattern of action and reaction might eventually escalate into conflict, as a top Chinese official acknowledged, or perhaps warned, yesterday.
