This article is part of a series on women, peace and security that The Strategist is publishing in recognition of International Women’s Day. It’s been nearly 20 years since the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1325 (UNSCR …
In our second special episode for International Women’s Day we’re celebrating initiatives from Young Australians in International Affairs, including a week-long line-up of women writing for Insights and their list of 25 young women to watch …
I find myself in avid agreement with American strategic analyst Kori Schake, who comments that, since the end of the Cold War, complacency in the West has led to ‘flabby’ strategic thinking. She writes of …
To watch the debate play out in America’s news media, it would seem that the opposite of ‘America First’ is American interventionism: a chronic penchant for leaping, to no apparent end, into wars of choice …
This week, Kurds in northern Iraq voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence for the country’s Kurdistan Region. With some 30 million Kurds divided among four states (Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran), nationalists argue that they …