The American president’s national security advisor is second only to the secretary of state in the United States’ foreign policy establishment. The position provides the president with independent advice on foreign policy decisions. It has …
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Australia must both hug the panda and slay the dragon. Simultaneously. A quarter of Australia’s international trade and well over a third of our exports go to a nation that might assault a Royal Australian …
Hillary wants you to know what the US is doing in Asia is a ‘pivot’. The previous Secretary of State thinks ‘rebalance’ is bureaucratic blandness, and dismisses its usage as ‘anodyne.’ Part II of the …
Prof Paul Dibb’s revisiting of exactly how close we came to nuclear war in 1983 reminded me of my own small role in propelling the world towards nuclear Armageddon at that time. Armed with the …
I refer to my time in Cairo during July and August as my ‘summer of enchantment and disenchantment’. I fell in love with Cairo, and then watched it fall apart. I was in Cairo to …