In an era of intensifying strategic competition, Australia’s national security is no longer a matter confined to the corridors of Canberra. It is a whole-of-nation challenge, demanding a coherent, unified strategy that aligns every level …
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It’s been almost 30 years since I arrived in Tehran for work at the Australian embassy. I was the first female policy officer from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade posted there. One of …
If we want to avoid mistakes in strategic policy, we need to understand how others see the world. We need strategic empathy—the ability to step into the minds of other actors and grasp their motivations, …
The latest stretch in a two-decade-long diplomatic effort to codify rules in cyberspace concluded with a consensus UN report earlier this month. That diplomacy stands in contrast to reality: last week NATO condemned Russia’s cyberattacks …
Australia’s approach to the Israel-Iran war has so far been based on a flawed model of statecraft. It’s one that tends to balkanise problems into convenient buckets, to be tackled piecemeal, rather than recognising the …