Tag: international law

Friends You Can’t Depend On

Arena Quarterly no. 9

Alison Broinowski

Mar 2022

If the United States, United Kingdom and Russia risk nuclear war over Ukraine and a gas pipeline, that is bad enough; for Australia to join this insanity is worse.

The Rules-Based Order

Arena Quarterly no. 7

Clinton Fernandes

Sep 2021

Military historians are well aware that Australian governments have not gone to war for sentimental reasons or because they were duped. The organising principle of Australian foreign policy is to remain on the winning side of a worldwide confrontation between the empire and the lands dominated by it. 

Letter from London: Viral Internationalism

Arena Quarterly no. 5

Gerry Simpson

Mar 2021

…for the first time in my adult life, we Amero-Europeans ceased to gaze out at the world with our usual mixture of transient humanitarianism and inactive charitableness and instead became the subject of a sorrowful gaze from elsewhere.
"Paul James: Mainstream Western responses to global violence involve disturbing reassertions of nationalistic parochialism.

The Terrorist Syndrome

Arena Magazine 55

Oct 2001

Paul James: Mainstream Western responses to global violence involve disturbing reassertions of nationalistic parochialism.