Member Articles

This paper probes how BRICS countries, as increasingly powerful developing states, affect global political realities through their projected perceptions and argumentation.

There is currently no effective mechanism for regional cooperation on environmental security problems. Australia should work with like-minded states to establish collaborative mechanisms in the Indian Ocean.

To reinvigorate the WTO, reform needs to address providing a negotiation forum to liberalize trade and establish new rules, monitoring trade policies, and resolving disputes between its 164 members.

The hostility between the United States and China and the continued destabilization of multilateral regimes will lead to China’s expansion of its nuclear capabilities, which could also indirectly affect nuclear development in the Middle East.

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security and Indonesia has capitalized on this anniversary, showcasing its investment in peace and evolution in political diplomacy.

Allegations that China uses its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to practice debt-trap diplomacy are unsubstantiated. Rather than broadly attacking the BRI, the West should focus on selective interventions oriented towards improving transparency.

COVID-19 has bolstered trends of greater executive control over foreign policy, dissatisfaction with multilateral governance, adaption to digital technology, and budgetary pressures on foreign ministries—all of which will alter the nature of diplomacy.

Although some governments have failed to incorporate sustainability in their responses to COVID-19, the upheaval of the global crisis offers three industries—textiles, transportation, and technology—a chance to build new models of green economic recovery.

The recent protests in Belarus could bring about democratization and stronger ties to the European Union (EU); the realization of such a possibility, however, requires incremental economic reforms and a gradual expansion of Belarus-EU relations.

Although states like China and Russia have benefited from the rise of a new world disorder, the West is responsible for its emergence. Preserving a liberal world order requires more consultative global leadership and stronger multilateral cooperation.