International relations
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Foreign affairs
Foreign relations
Report
Conflict economies in the Middle East and North Africa
This report examines the common economic factors that continue to drive conflict in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. It also makes specific recommendations to Western policymakers addressing these types of sub-economies in detail.
Discussion paper
A geostrategic SWOT analysis for Australia
This paper critically reflects on the circumstances Australia and its neighbours face through the prism of a Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis, focusing on Australia’s internal strengths and weaknesses, as well as its external opportunities and threats.
Report
Enduring colonization
This report presents an independent policy and law analysis of the situation faced by French Polynesia and its peoples, who remain under the effective administrative and political control of France.
Report
Global trends: forced displacement in 2018
The refugee population under UNHCR’s mandate has nearly doubled since 2012. In 2018, the increase was driven particularly by internal displacement in Ethiopia and asylum-seekers fleeing Venezuela. The proportion of the world’s population who were displaced also continued to rise, as the world’s forcibly displaced population grew faster than the global population.
Report
International cooperation: is the multilateral system helping?
This paper looks at the essential history of how the multilateral world has evolved over the last 150 years, followed by an examination of several types of multilateral systems.