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Flagship academic journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Editors-in-Chief: Profs.Joanne Wallis & Tim Legrand (Uni of Adelaide)
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/caji20/current
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A great start to the working week! The AJIA goes from strength to strength. We are proud to announce continued strong growth in journal downloads. Here are the data for Q3.
The recent appointment of 6 Assoc. Eds will help with the increased workload, too! 😉
#AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing
A graphic showing download growth in quarter 3 from 2022-2025. In quarter 3 of 2022 downloads were at 38,514; in 2023, they were at 41,574; in 2024, they were at 62,619; and in Q3 of 2025, they reached 87,961.
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🚨New online: Adam Vai Delaney discusses Papua New Guinea's multilateral diplomacy. Part of an upcoming special section commemorating the 50th Anniversary of 🇵🇬 Independence. 👀
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the progression of Papua New Guinea's (PNG) foreign policy objectives and engagement in multilateral diplomacy to empower its voice in international affairs and define its 'national interest'. PNG's foreign affairs policies and practices evolved, based on the principles reflected in 'friends to all' and 'universalism', adopted by the government at independence in 1975. PNG added 'active and selective engagement' and 'purposeful direction' in its policy and to decolonise its international relations by directing its focus on international equity and a new Pacific order. The policies marked a deliberate change in political direction Multilateral diplomacy provided insights that shaped and defined PNG's foreign policy over the next four decades. PNG's contributions to multilateralism demonstrate that its political leaders had a vision for greater participation, partnerships and obligations at the international level. Based on the author's experience, this article argues that historically, multilateralism provided an indispensable safeguard and a strong building block for supporting global peace and stability. PNG should continue to contribute to protecting an international rules-based order for the peaceful co-existence of all peoples and respect for the sovereignty of all nation-states as enshrined in the United Nations's Charter.
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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🚨New online: Thibaud Harrois analyses the UK's interest in "region-building" in the European north.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
#AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations
ABSTRACT In the aftermath of the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK reconsidered the priorities set in its strategic documents. The 2023 Integrated Review Refresh aimed to rebalance the country's immediate post-Brexit 'tilt' to the Indo-Pacific and the country's aspiration to reinforce bonds with Anglosphere countries in the region. The country's involvement in the security of the Euro-Atlantic area has since been revived, and the British government has displayed renewed interest for stronger cooperation with European allies, especially in the Nordic-Baltic region. Building on the theoretical definition of regions and security communities as political constructs, this article aims to interpret the UK's involvement in northern European security, that is tentatively called the 'Northernsphere'. The paper investigates both the triggers for tighter cooperation and the various manners in which this cooperation was institutionalised. Russia's assertiveness is presented as the main trigger for the UK's motivation to play a role as a 'region-builder' in the European north. The institutionalisation of cooperation is studied, to show the complementary functions of bilateralism and minilateralism to support the UK's involvement in northern Europe and support its effort to maintain its reputation as a reliable ally.
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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🚨New online: Brent Steele analyses the development of the Anglosphere during wartime. Part of an upcoming special edition on the Anglosphere. 👀
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
#AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations
How did the Anglosphere develop through wartime? This paper investigates the cultural educative practices and interactions between the US military and British society during the US deployments to Britain from 1942 to 1945. Specifically, it examines a 1943 training film for the US Armed forces, How to Behave in Britain (aka Welcome to Britain). The film was part of a broader outreach by US and British officials to socialise American soldiers to British society. Utilising ontological security and vicarious identity, as seen through the referents of race, gender/ sex and political economy, the film and the broader setting of American troops stationed in Britain illustrates the crucial role of everyday routines for enacting the ontological securities of allies that, nevertheless, in a clash of manners and customs, created ontological insecurities at the same time. This paper suggests that the moral valence of routines for agents and groups may be better understood via the concepts of manners and customs. Thus a working through of tensions within the Anglosphere has implications for its development in the twenty-first century as well.
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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🚨New online: @monikameislova.bsky.social discusses how the EU is represented in foreign policy discourse in the Anglosphere. Part of an upcoming special edition on the Anglosphere. 👀 #OpenAccess ⬇️
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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ABSTRACT This article analyses and interprets the ways in which the European Union (EU) was discursively represented within the official elite foreign policy discourse of five Anglosphere countries - the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada - between 2021 and 2024. In order to do so, it draws on critical constructivism, works with the corpus of the countries' official pronouncements on the EU in the 2021-2024 period and adopts the general orientation of the discourse historical approach to critical discourse studies. It pays particular attention to the role of blame in the representation practices, exploring how blame functions to either intensify adversarial portrayals or, conversely, is absent in ways that allow for more neutral or cooperative representations. The findings show that the coexistence of blame-based and non-blame-based articulations of the EU within the Anglosphere policy foreign discourse reflects a complex web of ambivalent and sometimes contradictory national positions that challenges the advancement of Anglosphere's cohesive relations with the EU.
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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🚨New online: this discussion piece by Hwang and Lee analyses North Korea's troop deployment to support Russia in Ukraine.
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#AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations
ABSTRACT As of March 2025, approximately 11,000 North Korean soldiers were deployed to support Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with an estimated 5000 casualties, including about 1600 fatalities. While overseas troop deployments typically spark domestic political resistance due to their human costs, analyses of North Korea's involvement have largely overlooked such tensions, focusing instead on state-to-state transactions and international security implications. Pyongyang's decision appears motivated by expected 'gifts' from Russia, ranging from essential supplies to advanced military technology, as well as the opportunity to gain combat experience amid ongoing regional tensions. Domestically, the regime's monolithic ideological system enforces a communication environment where message consistency is crucial to sustaining public support. This makes justifying troop deployment abroad, which conflicts with North Korea's long-standing policy of self-reliance, particularly challenging. This paper examines how the regime navigates these contradictions by managing internal dissent and crafting a persuasive rationale for its populace. In light of North Korea's offfcial acknowledgement of troop deployment only in April 2025 and potential future deployments, the analysis highlights the political risks and strategic calculations underpinning this decision.
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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🚨New online: James Headley discusses the Russian concept of "state-civilisation" and its attitude to the Anglosphere. Part of an upcoming special edition on the Anglosphere. 👀
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
#AcademicSky #InternationalRelations
ABSTRACT Putinism has now consolidated into an official ideology built around the concept of the 'state-civilisation'. That purported civilisation is the 'Russkii mir—the 'Russian world'-made up of multiple ethnicities/nationalities supposedly united through the Russian language, common values, and a sense of shared past, present, and future. It faces a common external threat-the 'collective West'-within which a special contempt is held for the 'Anglo-Saxon' states, usually denoting the USA and the UK, but potentially including other states of the 'Anglosphere. These ideas are built on a meta-conception of a multipolar world comprising culturally defined civilisations which should cooperate, but may clash, especially if one of them seeks global hegemony. This article shows how the Eurasianist ideology of the 'Russkii mir' concept and the concept of the Anglosphere are examples of civilisationalism. It argues that there is a danger that the two concepts are co-constructing a world of [clashing] civilisations. However, through analysing the concepts' inherent contradictions, their neo-imperialist elements and nationalist resistances to them, and the instrumental uses of the concepts, it argues that they are unlikely to become deep-seated and prevalent world-views.
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
austjia.bsky.social
🚨New online: Adam Vai Delaney discusses Papua New Guinea's multilateral diplomacy. Part of an upcoming special section commemorating the 50th Anniversary of 🇵🇬 Independence. 👀
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
#AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations
ABSTRACT This paper examines the progression of Papua New Guinea's (PNG) foreign policy objectives and engagement in multilateral diplomacy to empower its voice in international affairs and define its 'national interest'. PNG's foreign affairs policies and practices evolved, based on the principles reflected in 'friends to all' and 'universalism', adopted by the government at independence in 1975. PNG added 'active and selective engagement' and 'purposeful direction' in its policy and to decolonise its international relations by directing its focus on international equity and a new Pacific order. The policies marked a deliberate change in political direction Multilateral diplomacy provided insights that shaped and defined PNG's foreign policy over the next four decades. PNG's contributions to multilateralism demonstrate that its political leaders had a vision for greater participation, partnerships and obligations at the international level. Based on the author's experience, this article argues that historically, multilateralism provided an indispensable safeguard and a strong building block for supporting global peace and stability. PNG should continue to contribute to protecting an international rules-based order for the peaceful co-existence of all peoples and respect for the sovereignty of all nation-states as enshrined in the United Nations's Charter.
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
austjia.bsky.social
🚨New online: Thibaud Harrois analyses the UK's interest in "region-building" in the European north.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
#AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations
ABSTRACT In the aftermath of the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK reconsidered the priorities set in its strategic documents. The 2023 Integrated Review Refresh aimed to rebalance the country's immediate post-Brexit 'tilt' to the Indo-Pacific and the country's aspiration to reinforce bonds with Anglosphere countries in the region. The country's involvement in the security of the Euro-Atlantic area has since been revived, and the British government has displayed renewed interest for stronger cooperation with European allies, especially in the Nordic-Baltic region. Building on the theoretical definition of regions and security communities as political constructs, this article aims to interpret the UK's involvement in northern European security, that is tentatively called the 'Northernsphere'. The paper investigates both the triggers for tighter cooperation and the various manners in which this cooperation was institutionalised. Russia's assertiveness is presented as the main trigger for the UK's motivation to play a role as a 'region-builder' in the European north. The institutionalisation of cooperation is studied, to show the complementary functions of bilateralism and minilateralism to support the UK's involvement in northern Europe and support its effort to maintain its reputation as a reliable ally.
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
austjia.bsky.social
🚨New online: this discussion piece by Hwang and Lee analyses North Korea's troop deployment to support Russia in Ukraine.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
#AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations
ABSTRACT As of March 2025, approximately 11,000 North Korean soldiers were deployed to support Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with an estimated 5000 casualties, including about 1600 fatalities. While overseas troop deployments typically spark domestic political resistance due to their human costs, analyses of North Korea's involvement have largely overlooked such tensions, focusing instead on state-to-state transactions and international security implications. Pyongyang's decision appears motivated by expected 'gifts' from Russia, ranging from essential supplies to advanced military technology, as well as the opportunity to gain combat experience amid ongoing regional tensions. Domestically, the regime's monolithic ideological system enforces a communication environment where message consistency is crucial to sustaining public support. This makes justifying troop deployment abroad, which conflicts with North Korea's long-standing policy of self-reliance, particularly challenging. This paper examines how the regime navigates these contradictions by managing internal dissent and crafting a persuasive rationale for its populace. In light of North Korea's offfcial acknowledgement of troop deployment only in April 2025 and potential future deployments, the analysis highlights the political risks and strategic calculations underpinning this decision.
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
austjia.bsky.social
🚨New online: James Headley discusses the Russian concept of "state-civilisation" and its attitude to the Anglosphere. Part of an upcoming special edition on the Anglosphere. 👀
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
#AcademicSky #InternationalRelations
ABSTRACT Putinism has now consolidated into an official ideology built around the concept of the 'state-civilisation'. That purported civilisation is the 'Russkii mir—the 'Russian world'-made up of multiple ethnicities/nationalities supposedly united through the Russian language, common values, and a sense of shared past, present, and future. It faces a common external threat-the 'collective West'-within which a special contempt is held for the 'Anglo-Saxon' states, usually denoting the USA and the UK, but potentially including other states of the 'Anglosphere. These ideas are built on a meta-conception of a multipolar world comprising culturally defined civilisations which should cooperate, but may clash, especially if one of them seeks global hegemony. This article shows how the Eurasianist ideology of the 'Russkii mir' concept and the concept of the Anglosphere are examples of civilisationalism. It argues that there is a danger that the two concepts are co-constructing a world of [clashing] civilisations. However, through analysing the concepts' inherent contradictions, their neo-imperialist elements and nationalist resistances to them, and the instrumental uses of the concepts, it argues that they are unlikely to become deep-seated and prevalent world-views.
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
austjia.bsky.social
🚨New online: Brent Steele analyses the development of the Anglosphere during wartime. Part of an upcoming special edition on the Anglosphere. 👀
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
#AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations
How did the Anglosphere develop through wartime? This paper investigates the cultural educative practices and interactions between the US military and British society during the US deployments to Britain from 1942 to 1945. Specifically, it examines a 1943 training film for the US Armed forces, How to Behave in Britain (aka Welcome to Britain). The film was part of a broader outreach by US and British officials to socialise American soldiers to British society. Utilising ontological security and vicarious identity, as seen through the referents of race, gender/ sex and political economy, the film and the broader setting of American troops stationed in Britain illustrates the crucial role of everyday routines for enacting the ontological securities of allies that, nevertheless, in a clash of manners and customs, created ontological insecurities at the same time. This paper suggests that the moral valence of routines for agents and groups may be better understood via the concepts of manners and customs. Thus a working through of tensions within the Anglosphere has implications for its development in the twenty-first century as well.
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
austjia.bsky.social
🚨New online: @monikameislova.bsky.social discusses how the EU is represented in foreign policy discourse in the Anglosphere. Part of an upcoming special edition on the Anglosphere. 👀 #OpenAccess ⬇️
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations
ABSTRACT This article analyses and interprets the ways in which the European Union (EU) was discursively represented within the official elite foreign policy discourse of five Anglosphere countries - the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada - between 2021 and 2024. In order to do so, it draws on critical constructivism, works with the corpus of the countries' official pronouncements on the EU in the 2021-2024 period and adopts the general orientation of the discourse historical approach to critical discourse studies. It pays particular attention to the role of blame in the representation practices, exploring how blame functions to either intensify adversarial portrayals or, conversely, is absent in ways that allow for more neutral or cooperative representations. The findings show that the coexistence of blame-based and non-blame-based articulations of the EU within the Anglosphere policy foreign discourse reflects a complex web of ambivalent and sometimes contradictory national positions that challenges the advancement of Anglosphere's cohesive relations with the EU.
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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🚨New online! On the occasion of 50 years of PNG independence, Bernard Yegiora reflects on the evolution of 🇵🇬-🇦🇺 relations and its future challenges.
Read article here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
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ABSTRACT This article examines the evolution of China-Papua New Guinea (PNG) relations over the past 50 years, highlighting key drivers such as economic cooperation, geopolitical pragmatism, and education diplomacy. These engagements have expanded across trade, infrastructure, and people-to-people exchanges, reflecting mutual interests in development and resource access. However, the relationship faces significant challenges, including uneven development outcomes, institutional weaknesses, and increasing geopolitical pressures from external actors. Drawing on examples from mining, education, and security sectors, this article argues that the sustainability of China-PNG ties depend on greater alignment with PNG's long-term development priorities and stronger institutional oversight mechanisms. It further emphasises the need to address transparency gaps and policy incoherence that hinder equitable outcomes. This article concludes by outlining strategic options for managing these relations, with a focus on enhancing transparency, governance, and bilateral cooperation in the face of shifting regional dynamics and intensifying great power competition.
November 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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🚨 New online: discussion paper: "The new political economy of Australia—Southeast Asia
engagement", by Garry Rodan. What are the constraints of of effective cooperation between Australia and Southeast Asian countries?⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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ABSTRACT Amidst intensifying great power rivalry between the US and China, the Australian government has looked to greater cooperation with Southeast Asian countries to navigate a peaceful and prosperous course through the rough seas of this second Cold War. This is an understandable but also problematic direction. Economic and security imperatives have long been intertwined. The challenge now, however, is to understand how so in the new political economy of militarised neoliberalism, and the implications for regional engagement. Otherwise, policy plans have shaky foundations. This argument is prosecuted with an illustrative focus on policies of joint Australia and Southeast Asia cooperation in 'green' industries, most advanced with Indonesia. Political economy research reveals how policies of cooperation meant to avoid taking sides in superpower contestation can have starkly different outcomes. Identifying and analysing dominant coalitions of economic and socio-political interest, mediating how official policy is implemented or obstructed, is pivotal to understanding the constraints and possibilities of effective cooperation.
November 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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A great start to the working week! The AJIA goes from strength to strength. We are proud to announce continued strong growth in journal downloads. Here are the data for Q3.
The recent appointment of 6 Assoc. Eds will help with the increased workload, too! 😉
#AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing
A graphic showing download growth in quarter 3 from 2022-2025. In quarter 3 of 2022 downloads were at 38,514; in 2023, they were at 41,574; in 2024, they were at 62,619; and in Q3 of 2025, they reached 87,961.
November 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Lots of great #AUKUS research in @austjia.bsky.social, including a great forthcoming SI which will house this paper
austjia.bsky.social Australian Journal of International Affairs @austjia.bsky.social · Sep 17
🚨New online! Jack Holland discusses the "silent whiteness" and "racialised warfare" that underpins AUKUS and calls for "open debate on the problematic underpinnings of AUKUS". #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
ABSTRACT Existing studies of AUKUS have explored the security partnership's geopolitics, diplomatic fallout, and technological potentials. However, they have not considered the foundational importance of historical, racialised warfare. Indeed, mainstream International Relations theories tend to exclude race as a formative influence on world order building and AUKUS' political elites display 'silent whiteness'. For both, the ties that bind remain unspoken. To remedy this, the article theorises the affective politics of racialised military superiority, and the productive role played by Anglosphere aphasia, as both combine to make possible AUKUS' contemporary security possibilities. The article draws on a large comparative computer-aided content analysis, coupled to thirty-five elite interviews, which together enable a narratological analysis of racialised violence and constructivist analysis of contemporary security silences. It concludes by calling for a new, critical research agenda, and urgent, open debate on the problematic underpinnings of AUKUS—an unspoken formative ontology of recurrent, imbalanced, and racialised conflict.
October 31, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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🚨New online! Kelly and Doidge: "Aotearoa New Zealand, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere: navigating security identity amidst geostrategic change. Part of an upcoming special edn. on the "Anglosphere".
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
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ABSTRACT The concept of the Anglosphere, while exercising some debate within other of its members, is one that has little currency in the Aotearoa New Zealand context. Instead, it is AUKUS - the most recent project of three core Anglosphere states - that has framed discussion on issues to do with the concept. Utilising three historic ideational tenets of Aotearoa New Zealand's foreign policy - independent foreign policy, nuclear free policy, and a Pacific orientation - this article examines public debate around AUKUS as presented in print news media in the period from its launch in September 2021 through to December 2024. It demonstrates that, while a high number of articles was generated over the timeframe, discussion was largely driven by events external to Aotearoa New Zealand rather than by autochthonous interest. Further, while there has been some local discussion on joining Pillar Il of AUKUS, this has, to date, lacked in-depth analysis. Finally, it finds that the core ideational orientations of Aotearoa New Zealand foreign policy have had relatively little play in media considerations of AUKUS.
October 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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🚨New online: Sarah Teo reviews "Strategic Minilateralism and the regional security architecture of the Indo-Pacific: the quad, AUKUS, and the trilateral strategic dialogue, by Thomas Wilkins.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
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Screenshot of the title of the review and the opening paragraph.
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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🚨 New online: Konwer and Hazarika discuss India's Act East policy and evolving relationship with BIMSTEC. ⬇️
#AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
ABSTRACT While India continues to be a key player in BIMSTEC, the Modi administration has realised that extracting benefits and engage meaningfully with the members of the group would be challenging. Notwithstanding the modest advancements to date, the article examines the causes that have compelled New Delhi to establish a long-term diplomatic commitment to BIMSTEC. Given the strategy of multi-alignment and 'hedging' by member states of BIMSTEC and China's consolidation as a 'favoured partner' of these countries, in the long run, India's ability to extract benefits from this forum will be marginal. Considering New Delhi's larger foreign policy goals and the geostrategic concerns, India finds itself with limited alternatives but to commit to this framework, notwithstanding the associated costs. In the coming decades, India's ability to expand its influence and reap benefits through mini-lateral frameworks may be the key in determining its position in the neighbourhood and beyond.
October 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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🚨New online: Tournier-Sol and Ben Wellings discuss threat perceptions in right-wing politics in "the Anglosphere". Part of an upcoming themed edition on "The Anglosphere". #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations #AcademicSky ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
ABSTRACT This article illustrates and analyses right-wing opinion-formers' threat perceptions concerning national cohesion within and across the Anglosphere in the immediate post-Brexit period among the British 'party in the media'. This influential part of the right-wing milieu in Britain is an integral extension of the Conservative party and, increasingly, radical right politics. By analysing opinion on the Anglosphere in 'the party in the media' with a focus on the announcement of AUKUS, the Ukraine war and Gaza, this article analyses the worldview promoted by the Anglosphere's advocates in the face of both external and internal challenges. First, the analysis reveals a novel ambivalence towards the Anglosphere itself. Although the Anglosphere is presented as a natural security community superior to anything that Europe could create, it is also portrayed as being undermined from within by the rise of 'woke-ism' across its constituent nations. This perceived challenge created a paradoxical attitude towards France amongst opinion formers. France was depicted simultaneously as an unreliable security ally and at the same time as a model of national cohesion worth emulating. Thus French republican nationhood offered a counterpoint to the self-critical, 'woke' tendencies seen as weakening the Anglosphere at a time of impending geostrategic conflict.
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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September 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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September 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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🚨New online! India and the BIMSTEC - regionalism, multilateral frameworks and a changing global order. Does India have "no choice but to continue investing in this organisation"?
tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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ABSTRACT While India continues to be a key player in BIMSTEC, the Modi administration has realised that extracting benefits and engage meaningfully with the members of the group would be challenging. Notwithstanding the modest advancements to date, the article examines the causes that have compelled New Delhi to establish a long-term diplomatic commitment to BIMSTEC. Given the strategy of multi-alignment and 'hedging' by member states of BIMSTEC and China's consolidation as a 'favoured partner' of these countries, in the long run, India's ability to extract benefits from this forum will be marginal. Considering New Delhi's larger foreign policy goals and the geostrategic concerns, India finds itself with limited alternatives but to commit to this framework, notwithstanding the associated costs. In the coming decades, India's ability to expand its influence and reap benefits through mini-lateral frameworks may be the key in determining its position in the neighbourhood and beyond.
October 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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The winning paper for this year's Boyer Prize was in competition with five other excellent shortlisted papers. All the papers are #OpenAccess! /1.
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The Boyer Prize
Explore the article collection: The Boyer Prize. Published in Australian Journal of International Affairs.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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🚨Delighted to announce the winner of the Boyer Prize for best article published in the AJIA in 2024. Warm congrats to @liammoore.bsky.social for this paper analysing the complexity of 🇦🇺relations with Pacific states. #OpenAccess
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ABSTRACT I argue the instrumental, paternalistic strategic culture often adopted in Australian foreign policy circles is counter-productive, preventing Australia from having productive and sustainable relationships with Pacific states. If Australian officials want to follow through on rhetorical commitments to enhance Australia's relationships in the Pacific, Australia must actively recognise the agency Pacific states have and place itself within this community of actors. Australia often positions itself as part of the 'Pacific family, but to be a collaborative member of this family it must go beyond headline commitments and fundamentally reconsider the evolving agency of small Pacific states and how this shapes Australia's interactions with them. We can understand this through the lens of normative communities. Revisiting constructivist International Relations theory, I reexamine who is included and excluded in the communities of actors that norms apply to. This has particularly significant implications around norms of climate change action and mitigation. Australia has historically tried to water down agreements and slow-role actions in this space. The ongoing bid to host COP31 perhaps offers an opportunity to both show leadership on climate-related issues and to reconfigure assumptions around Pacific agency and address the effects this has on Australia's relationships in the Pacific.
October 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM