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AFA12 - July 2021Feeling the Heat
Australia Under Climate Pressure
The twelfth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the growing pressure on Australia as global and regional powers adopt tough measures to combat climate change.
Feeling the Heat looks at the consequences of splitting from the international consensus, and at how a climate pivot by Canberra could unlock new diplomatic and economic opportunities.
- Walkley Award–winning journalist Marian Wilkinson analyses how Canberra is responding to international pressure to take stronger climate action.
- Griffith Asia Institute research fellow Wesley Morgan reflects on how Australia’s climate policy affects our relationships in the Pacific.
- Chief economist at the Australia Institute Richard Denniss and International Security and Affairs director Allan Behm examine Australia’s efforts to block international climate action.
- Climate Council CEO Amanda McKenzie reveals how and why Australia’s climate policy impedes its diplomacy.
- Senior fellow at ASPI Anthony Bergin and former PNG government adviser Jeffrey Wall suggests how Australia can boost business ties in the Pacific.
- Foreign correspondent and news reporter Hugh Riminton examines Stan Grant’s With the Falling of the Dusk and the future contours of the Asian Century.
- Novelist and essayist Michelle Aung Thin probes into Daniel Combs’ Until the World Shatters and the brutal Myanmar coup.
- Senior lecturer in Chinese history David Brophy on Sean Roberts’ The War on the Uyghurs and Canberra’s slow-changing stance on human rights abuses in China.
- PLUS Correspondence on AFA11: The March of Autocracy.
Australian Foreign Affairs is published three times a year and seeks to explore – and encourage – debate on Australia’s place in the world and global outlook.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Jonathan Pearlman is the editor of Australian Foreign Affairs and the world editor of The Saturday Paper. He is a correspondent for The Straits Times newspaper (Singapore) and was Australia–Pacific correspondent for The Telegraph (UK). 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
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AFA13 - October 2021India Rising?
Asia's Huge Question
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the future of India, a rising giant whose unsteady growth and unpredictable political turns raise lingering questions about its role and power in Asia.
India Rising? explores the challenge for Australia as it seeks to improve its faltering ties with the world’s largest democracy, a nation whose ascent – if achieved – could balance China and reshape the regional order.
- Hindustani Times journalist Snigdha Poonam examines rising anti-China sentiment in Narendra Modi’s India.
- Deputy Vice-Chancellor International Michael Wesley interrogates the future for India and Australia – the likely challenges, opportunities and threats facing the two nations.
- South-East Asia journalist Aarti Betigeri considers the Indian-Australian community and key cultural, political and economic links to India.
- Professor of International Relations at King’s College London Harsh V. Pant reveals how India views Australia and how Canberra can supercharge relations.
- Lecturer of strategic studies at Deakin University Elizabeth Buchanan reviews Australia’s options as China expands its Antarctic operations.
- Asialink senior advisor Don Greenlees analyses Peter Job’s A Narrative of Denial and Australia’s violation of East Timor.
- Professorial fellow at La Trobe’s institute for Human Security Dennis Altman interrogates John Ikenberry’s A World Safe for Democracy and the rise of liberal internationalism.
- PLUS University of Sydney history professor James Curran probes into the Australia–Indonesia security relationship under Paul Keating.
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Australian Foreign Affairs is published three times a year and seeks to explore – and encourage – debate on Australia’s place in the world and global outlook.
