Books & Arts
12 July 2023
A summing up by an Australian diplomat who loved the Arab world
Books & Arts
5 June 2023
The authorised history of Australia’s role in East Timor’s 1999–2000 crisis reveals as much about Canberra as it does about Dili
Books & Arts
7 March 2023
An Australian diplomat follows le Carré and Greene among spies and moles
Books & Arts
26 October 2021
How a boy from the bush was seduced by the Asian giant
Books & Arts
2 May 2021
How can Southeast Asian countries embrace China without being crushed?
Books & Arts
27 October 2020
Books | Silence may be golden, says Madeleine Albright, but it won’t win many arguments
Books & Arts
12 August 2020
Books | We can never know the consequences of foreign policy, says the man who coined “soft power.” All we know are the means
Books & Arts
12 May 2020
Books | Winning elections in Southeast Asia is tough — and then what do you do?
Essays & Reportage
24 April 2020
Australia has reshaped its understanding of what we mark on 25 April
Books & Arts
23 March 2020
Books | How the Asia-Pacific became the Indo-Pacific, with a brief stop-off in the Asian century
Books & Arts
10 February 2020
Can Australia embrace a regional identity?
Books & Arts
15 April 2019
Books | A former diplomat tells the story of the “talented cross-section” of Fiji’s youth who enlisted in the British Army in 1962
International
27 November 2018
“Hot peace” is a much better label for this period of competing powers within a single system
Books & Arts
19 November 2018
Books | Two political memoirs reveal the exhilaration of power
Essays & Reportage
17 October 2018
Hard news and a free media are essential for Australian foreign policy — and that means we need a new, dedicated broadcasting organisation
Correspondents
13 September 2018
Are America and Australia two allies separated by a common language?
Books & Arts
23 May 2018
Books | Two diplomats — one a restless innovator, the other “a master of benign neglect” — helped shape Australia’s opening up to the world
Essays & Reportage
10 May 2018
Relations have been cool before, and will be cool again — though domestic issues are complicating the picture
National Affairs
19 March 2018
Shared hopes and fears were on display at the weekend’s meeting in Sydney
Books & Arts
15 February 2018
Review essay | As the regional balance continues to shift, resolving the tension between history and geography is becoming more urgent for Australia
Books & Arts
12 December 2017
Books | Somehow, this extraordinarily diverse group of countries has held together for half a century. Can it last?
National Affairs
23 November 2017
The government’s foreign policy white paper attempts a delicate balancing act
Correspondents
10 October 2017
Letter from Washington | Six weeks in Trump territory leaves our correspondent worried but grateful
Books & Arts
20 June 2017
Books | Australia’s diplomatic capabilities are about to be tested again
Books & Arts
29 March 2017
Books | A former journalist and diplomat offers a double-jointed view of Australia’s international role
Books & Arts
17 December 2015
Books | Graeme Dobell reviews an admirer’s biography of the controversial scholar-strategist
International
18 November 2015
Just over a century ago another movement tried to terrify the West, writes Graeme Dobell. Its failure helps illuminate ISIS’s campaign and its likely impact
Books & Arts
20 October 2015
Books | Even if the Asian century is peaceful that doesn’t mean it will be harmonious, writes Graeme Dobell
Books & Arts
13 November 2014
A diplomat and a psychologist have produced a remarkable guide to dealing with intransigent conflicts, writes Graeme Dobell
Books & Arts
25 July 2014
A contest is under way, writes Graeme Dobell, but it will be more like a nineteenth-century battle than a twentieth-century clash