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Issue # 1The Big Picture
Australia’s top thinkers on foreign affairs address the most significant foreign affairs dynamics affecting Australia today, including the rise of China and the election of Donald Trump. The world is changing, and so is Australia’s place in it. What do we need to know? What do we need to think about?
The Big Picture is an essential exploration of Australia’s position in the world today.
Paul Keating discusses changes occurring in the United States, Europe and Asia and how Australia should respond.
Allan Gyngell looks at the collapse of long-held beliefs underlying Australian foreign policy and the need to prepare for growing uncertainty.
George Megalogenis analyses Australia’s changing demographics and the rapid increase in migrants from China and India – a development that comes with both challenges and benefits.
Linda Jakobson examines China’s evolving reach and ambitions under Xi Jinping and what this could mean for Australia and the region.
ABOUT
Australian Foreign Affairs is a new journal brought to you by the publishers of Black Inc. and Quarterly Essay. It will be published three times a year, in February, July and October, beginning in October 2017.
The world is changing, and so is Australia’s place in it. A large number of general readers are fascinated by the dynamics of a rising China and a disengaging United States, in a world that is arguably less stable than at any time since World War II. AFA will make foreign affairs available and accessible to a large audience, in the way that Quarterly Essays make serious politics popular.
There has never been a more critical time for Australia to contemplate its place in the world. My intention is that Australian Foreign Affairs will serve as a forum for our most adventurous and deepest strategic thinkers to interrogate foreign policy
— Morry Schwartz, Publisher, Australian Foreign Affairs
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Jonathan Pearlman is the editor of Australian Foreign Affairs and is a correspondent for the Telegraph (UK) and the Straits Times newspaper (Singapore). He previously worked at the Sydney Morning Herald, covering foreign affairs and politics from Canberra and Sydney.
Australia is increasingly affected by events beyond its borders, especially as global power and wealth shifts towards Asia. The challenges facing Australia and the region are varied and complex, but they are also fascinating. There is a strong need and appetite for a publication that explores these challenges and debates the ways Australia should respond.
— Jonathan Pearlman, Editor, Australian Foreign Affairs
Editor Jonathan Pearlman discusses Issue #1 The Big Picture.
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The New World Disorder
February 2018
Australia’s top thinkers address the most significant foreign affairs dynamics affecting Australia today, including the rise of China and the unpredictability of Donald Trump. The world is changing, and so is Australia’s place in it. What do we need to know? What do we need to think about?
Michael Wesley explores Donald Trump’s upheaval of the certainties which have underpinned order in Asia for decades, leaving Australia and other nations facing a new and unpredictable era.
Plus in-depth articles on: Australia’s security risks as the United States turns insular, the rise of international populism and its effect on the public mindset, and the consequences for the region’s prosperity as the US abandons free trade leadership (allowing China to step in).
Trump in Asia looks at the chaos and uncertainty spreading across the region as Australia rushes to find a new plan for surviving in post-America Asia.
