• Print
  • Email

Foreign Policy

foreign-policy

The purpose of our work is to help shape and influence a foreign policy that will promote the twin goals of a more secure Australia and an international order based on liberal values, rules of engagement and outcomes. CIS is taking the lead in identifying underlying current and future trends and issues; and introducing themes that will define and shape future policy. This includes contributions to debate and discussion on issues such as immigration and refugee policy and foreign aid. Our recent work has concentrated on the ever dynamic changes occurring in China and India and the lack of change in the Pacific region.

Publications

  1. The Kingdom of God is Forcefully Advancing and Forceful Men Lay Hold of It

    David Coltart | 14 Sep 2011 | Occasional Papers

    In the CIS’s annual Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom, Senator David Coltart discusses the application of biblical... Read More...

  2. INTERVIEW: Australia and the Rise of China

    Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe | 20 Aug 2011 | POLICY Magazine

    Paul Monk tells Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe that China's rise could require tough decisions about accommodating or resisting... Read More...

  3. BOOK REVIEW: The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of World Economy

    Richard Salmons | 20 Aug 2011 | POLICY Magazine

    The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of World Economy by Dani Rodrik Reviewed by Richard Salmons  

  4. FEATURE: Taming the Dogs of War: Why Parliament Should Authorise Major Deployments

    Sukrit Sabhlok | 31 Mar 2011 | POLICY Magazine

    Parliament and the courts could spare Australia from ill-advised military action.

  5. Malaysian Dilemma: The Enduring Cancer of Affirmative Action

    John Lee | 23 Feb 2011 | Foreign Policy Analysis

    In March 2010, Prime Minister Najib Razak announced a New Economic Model (NEM) for Malaysia. These include pledges to wind-back... Read More...

View All

Opinion & Commentary

  1. Avoiding conflict but quietly waving flag

    Jessica Brown | 21 Nov 2011 | Newcastle Herald

    Southeast Asian governments will welcome increased US involvement in the region.... Read More

  2. Italy defaults on debt and sends lenders broke? So be it

    Adam Creighton | 15 Nov 2011 | Crikey

    The federal government will need to cut spending to ensure a surplus in 2012-13.... Read More

  3. Going long on European deja vu

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 03 Nov 2011 | The Business Spectator

    Markets were euphoric, political leaders relieved. “Europe has taken a step forward. Europe and Greece will emerge stronger ... Read More

  4. Europe’s forgotten lessons of history

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 28 Oct 2011 | ThirdLink Newsletter

    The rise and fall of the Euro is just another chapter in the long history of monetary unions in Europe. The Euro was not ... Read More

  5. The march of democracy in Southeast Asia

    Jessica Brown | 20 Sep 2011 | Online Opinion

    Both Malaysia and Singapore are nominally democratic. Yet both are what Fareed Zakaria calls 'illiberal democracies': "democratically ... Read More

View All

Ideas@TheCentre

  1. America’s Burma thaw motivated by Southeast Asian strategy

    Jessica Brown | 03 Feb 2012

    Washington has long been a fierce critic of the Burmese regime, and its recent olive branch is partly motivated by a desire ...

  2. US presidential race taxing

    Robert Carling | 27 Jan 2012

    Sketchy tax system causes problems for presidential hopefuls....

  3. Wrong person for a difficult job

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 27 Jan 2012

    Former French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde’s ineptness as the head of the International Monetary Fund is being proven ...

  4. Nudge, nudge, here come the Germans

    Peter Saunders | 20 Jan 2012

    Germans can teach us a lot when it comes to family and social policy....

  5. Christmas pudding without butter

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 23 Dec 2011

    The richest country in the world can’t afford butter....

View All