Indigenous peoples have a long history of conducting international diplomacy, from their relations with one another across the continent for tens of millennia, their engagement with peoples outside Australia, and their contributions to the current international political system.
What makes Aboriginal Australian international relations unique? Why in modern Australia are such approaches and worldviews important? And what can we learn from such unique ways of knowing, being, and doing?
Indigenous diplomatic practices have existed continuously on the Australian continent for tens of thousands of years, governing relations between A&TSI Clans and Nations as well as with overseas traders.
The Australian Now ASEAN offers both the Philippines and Australia a platform to celebrate shared milestones but most importantly chart new possibilities and opportunities for deeper collaboration.
Michael Byrne is a Master of Diplomacy student currently undertaking an internship in Belize where the country will vote on referring its territorial dispute with Guatemala to the International Court of Justice.
In early February 2019, DPA sponsored a series of writers’ workshops, as well as a public symposium, where academics were able to present their work on the topic to the public.
The Department of Pacific Affairs was honoured to contribute to the organisation of a talk by the Prime Minister of Tuvalu Rt Hon Enele Sosene Sopoaga to Pacific Island students at ANU
Dr Yolanda Kemp-Spies, Visiting Fellow at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, has applied over three decades of academic and professional experience to draw much needed attention to the diplomatic relations of the Global South.
The push for total transparency can stifle scholarship on secrecy, claims Professor Thierry Balzacq in an article published in the journal West European Politics.
