| Issue 17: October 2005 (October 2005) |
 | The Malaysian Chinese racial prism
[International Affairs] In order to progress, the Malaysian Chinese racial prism has to be smashed.
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| | The US-China relationship: A train wreck waiting to happen?
[International Affairs] "These days Americans make a living selling each other's houses funded by the Chinese". Just one of the many complexities of the US-China relationship.
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| Issue 16: August 2005 (London) |
| | A Day in Ramallah
[International Affairs] I was in the lobby of a hotel in Ramallah when I learned that a bomb had been detonated at the Qalandiyah checkpoint at the northern entrance to Jerusalem. This article was originally published on The Cud.
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| | America and the Middle-East: From stability to democracy
[International Affairs] The official goal of American foreign policy toward the Middle-East has recently shifted from stability to democracy. In light of this change in strategy, just what can the imposition of democracy achieve in the region?
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| | Australians living in London, living in fear
[International Affairs] Feelings of a Greek Australian after the London bombings.
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| | Fear & loathing in London town
[International Affairs] This article was originally going to be about Live8. The London terrorists changed that. This article has 1 comment.
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| | Sex education in Rupunini
[International Affairs] An Aussie volunteer teaching sex education in Guyana.
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| Issue 15: July 2005 (International Students) |
| | Three days after the tsunami
[International Affairs] Six months after the tsunami disaster, a helper recounts his tale.
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| | Wailing about Whaling
[International Affairs] Stephen Phillips argues it is hypocritical and ethnocentric that Australia presents as a self-evident fact that whaling, and by extension, Japan, is barbaric.
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| Issue 14: June 2005 (Detention) |
| | A day in Ramallah
[International Affairs] I was in the lobby of a hotel in Ramallah when I learned that a bomb had been detonated at the Qalandiyah checkpoint at the northern entrance to Jerusalem. This article was originally published on The Cud.
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| | Schapelle
[International Affairs] There is no need for an introduction, just one word: Schapelle.
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| Issue 13: May 2005 (The China Story) |
| | Dancing to forget in Djibouti City
[International Affairs] Djibouti imports lots of things. Lately, it's become the Saigon of the Iraq war.
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| | Fear and loathing in Westminster
[International Affairs] Does it really matter who wins government in the British election?
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| | The China story - The Northeast Asian chess game
[International Affairs] Why we mustn’t get too carried away with the incredible rise of China.
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| | The country not present at the funeral
[International Affairs] The PRC didn’t send a representative to the “world’s biggest funeral”. What is the state of Catholicism in the world’s most populous nation?
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| Issue 12: March 2005 (A Postcard from Khartoum) |
| | A postcard from Khartoum
[International Affairs] The high protein diet wasn't a Hollywood invention.
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| | Anwar's back - Against the odds
[International Affairs] Recently released from a questionable incarceration and excluded from Malaysian politics until 2008, Anwar Ibhrahim has nonetheless been active on the road, giving a series of lectures throughout the world. Find out what he had to say when he visited Sydney.
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| | The party is not for turning: Why Taiwan is important
[International Affairs] The new anti-secession legislation has turned up the temperature in this regional flashpoint.
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| Issue 11: December 2004 (China's Children) |
| | Pressure Cooker China
[International Affairs] In the pressure cooker of modern China, China’s elderly outshine its youth.
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| | Sex and Another Country
[International Affairs] 9 months away from the corporate rat race has allowed Camy Wong plenty of time to ponder the fate of the Middle Kingdom’s fairer sex.
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| | Three Despots
[International Affairs] When the end of the world is approaching, a large and healthy dose of rhetoric is appropriate.
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| Issue 9: August 2004 (Israeli Drafting) |
| | Israeli teenagers resist the draft: Conscience vs the State
[International Affairs] The 'refusal movement' is a small but growing number of Israeli reserve soldiers and draft teenagers refusing to serve in the Palestinian territories or refusing to perform any military service at all.
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| | The sleeping dragon has awakened
[International Affairs] 1.3 billion people. If only I could sell one widget to all of them, I'd be a billionaire.
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| Issue 8: July 2004 (Fast Food) |
| | Dragon Lore: Further study required
[International Affairs] Singapore. Thailand. The United States. FTA. FTA. FTA. Now Malaysia wants a piece and Australia has been invited to the holy grail of ASEAN + 3. But not everything is so rosy. Especially when Asian studies make up less than 5% of undergraduate load in Australia.
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| Issue 7: June 2004 (Politics, Politics, Politics) |
| | East Timor: Cutting through the emotion and rhetoric
[International Affairs] Australia looks like a big bully in this impasse over black gold. What should be done to save face and save sovereignty?
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| Issue 6: May 2004 (Focus on Iraq) |
| | An Australia in two minds
[International Affairs] Both parties are offering opposing policies appealing to either one side or the other, but both fail to recognise that for the Australian public it's not that black and white.
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| | Iraq, Iraq and More Iraq
[International Affairs] Why "sending the wrong message" and "staying till the job is done" are not valid reasons for our troops remaining in Iraq.
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| | Iraq: "Staying the Course"
[International Affairs] So we have been told by President Bush that he is "staying the course". That would be good, if only the course was leading somewhere beneficial.
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| | The War on Iraq
[International Affairs] Why it was important to be involved in Iraq, and why it's important that we shouldn't turn and run now.
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| Issue 4: November 2003 (Rebuilding Iraq) |
| | Remember "WMD"?
[International Affairs] Let us not forget why we were told "we had to" invade Iraq.
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| Issue 3: October 2003 (Trough Dynamics) |
| | Australia's options post Cancun
[International Affairs] In a climate of increasing unilateralism, bilateralism and regionalism, what are Australia’s options?
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| | Saddam and Gomorra
[International Affairs] How Clinton would rescue Bush’s war on terrorism by breaking the evil spell of the neocons.
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| Issue 2: September 2003 - 2nd Release (The Property Market) |
| | Is Arnie Leadership Material?
[International Affairs] His comical accent and oft repeated one-liners, not to mention admitted steroid use, provide many with the excuse to ridicule the man and political process he now enters. This is Ronald Reagan all over again they say, except this time we need subtitles.
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| Issue 1: September 2003 (Homosexual Clergy) |
| | Australia's Image Problem
[International Affairs] Despite the success of the greatest Olympics ever in 2000 and Australia’s stellar economy, it might surprise many Australians that our country is still viewed as an insignificant cultural backwater.
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| | East Asian Economic Grouping
[International Affairs] Dr Mahathir revives talk of an East Asian Economic Grouping. Will Australia be part of it?
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| | Redefining Security
[International Affairs] Imagine you were a young graduate at DFAT or the Department of Defence and you were asked to submit a report identifying the key challenges for the future of Australia’s security. What do you think you would write?
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