Progress report: Australia’s National Action Plan The government has released its third progress report on the Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012–2018. The report affirms Australia’s continued leadership in promoting the …
What will these five countries bring to the table? South Africa, Indonesia, the Dominican Republic, Belgium and Germany will be non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for 2019–20, after receiving the required majority of …
Last Saturday US, British and French forces bombed three chemical weapons facilities in Damascus in retaliation for the alleged use of chemical weapons by Syrian forces in Douma on 6–8 April that killed around 70 people. Others …
Like the uprising of the ‘deplorables’ against globalisation that accounts for Donald Trump’s election and Brexit, are ‘peasant states’ now rebelling against the geopolitical heavyweights? The former dominate the 193-member UN General Assembly (UNGA), while …
The Trump administration’s evolving UN policy is a case study in how policymaking in the administration remains a work in progress amid competing worldviews, absent or unclear guidance, and an idiosyncratic president. There are deep …
