The international community founded the United Nations in 1945 as the centrepiece of an ambitious institutional strategy to prevent the recurrence of world war, global depression, and massive humanitarian crises. Sixty years later the world is again confronting multiple governance challenges, none of which can be met through unilateral or bilateral means alone, and the...

Environmental management has traditionally taken place within the bounds of the nation-state, with no obligation to consider neighbouring countries or the world as a whole. Many issues cannot be adequately addressed in this context. For example, the conservation of marine mammals requires the protection of critical habitat beyond state jurisdictions. States, international organisations and global...

This is the first White Paper on Australia’s foreign and trade policy. This White Paper takes a longer-term perspective - looking forward fifteen years - to the forces which are most likely to influence Australia’s external environment, and to the policy implications which flow from this. A key message of the paper is the great...