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2. Winning hearts and minds: the PRC’s efforts to attract scientific talent
- Author:
- Yun Jiang
- Publication Date:
- 12-2022
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- In her second policy research report, Ms Yun Jiang, AIIA China Matters Fellow, assesses efforts by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to encourage the return of PRC-born scientists from abroad. Xi Jinping has made attracting returnee talent a priority to enable the PRC to achieve greater technological strength and self-reliance. Yun Jiang argues that these sometimes controversial programs have not met their objectives. Many top scientists are reluctant to return because of domestic policies in the PRC. At the same time, scientists of Chinese heritage in the United States face greater scrutiny and suspicion. Australia has an opportunity to attract some of this top scientific talent caught between the two countries.
- Topic:
- Science and Technology, Hegemony, Business, Strategic Competition, and Strategic Interests
- Political Geography:
- China and Asia
3. Taiwan, Cross-Strait Tension, and Security in the Indo-Pacific
- Author:
- Bryce Wakefield
- Publication Date:
- 11-2021
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- Tensions across the Taiwan Strait are rising and are potentially more serious than crises in the 1990s and even the 1950s. Military activity around Taiwan has increased, with China’s largest daily incursion into Taiwan’s Air Defence Identification Zone occurring in October 2021. Nevertheless, experts disagree as to whether such activity signals China’s intent to go to war over Taiwan or whether Beijing is posturing to a nervous international community. What is the likelihood of conflict over Taiwan? Could accidents around the island spark all-out hostilities? How should states in the region, like Australia and Japan, react to the current situation? How is the increased tension perceived in Taipei?
- Topic:
- Defense Policy, Military Strategy, Territorial Disputes, Conflict, and Borders
- Political Geography:
- China, Taiwan, and Asia
4. Trade and Supply Chain Issues for Taiwan and Australia
- Author:
- Bryce Wakefield
- Publication Date:
- 12-2021
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- Covid-19 has disrupted supply chains around the world, while political movements in the United States and Europe that predate the pandemic have raised the prospect that we are once more living in a world where regionalism and nationalism trump global integration of trade. China, meanwhile, has made it clear that it sees trade as a tool in its political statecraft, a factor that has been keenly felt in the region. Nervous actors in the Indo-Pacific are looking to diversify their trade away from China, but do nations in the region have many choices? What does this mean for Taiwan-Australia trade relations? How does Taiwan’s ambiguous position in the international system relate to recent trade agreements? Where do Taiwan and Australia, as mid-level powers, sit within the global trading order?
- Topic:
- International Trade and Finance, Public Health, Pandemic, and COVID-19
- Political Geography:
- China, Taiwan, Asia, and Australia
5. Winning Hearts and Likes: How foreign affairs and defence agencies use Facebook
- Author:
- Damien Spry
- Publication Date:
- 06-2020
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- For defence and diplomacy, digital media, and specifically social media, have become an unavoidable aspect of their operations, communications and strategic international engagement, but the use of those media isn’t always understood or appreciated by governments. While the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the Department of Defence (DoD) both use social media, including accounts managed by diplomatic posts overseas and by units of the ADF, both departments can improve how they reach and engage online. It’s important to note, however, that their use cases and audiences are different. DFAT’s audience is primarily international and varies by geographical location. Defence has a more local audience and focus. More importantly than the content, online engagement is dependent on the strength of the ties between the senders or sharers and the recipients of the content. For both departments, improving those online ties is vital as they seek to influence. The Australian Government should use social media far more strategically to engage international audiences—particularly in the diplomatic and defence portfolios. Both DFAT and Defence should review outdated digital strategies, cross-promote more content and demonstrate transparency and accountability by articulating and publishing social media policies. Both departments should create more opportunities for training and the sharing of skills and experiences of public diplomacy staff. They should refrain from relying solely on engagement metrics as success measures (that is, as a measure of an individual’s, usually senior staff’s or heads of missions’, level of ability or achievement). Instead, by changing the emphasis from the producers of social media content to the audiences that interact with it, the engagement data can be usefully regarded as a proxy for attention and interest. This can tell us what kinds of audiences (mostly by location) are engaged, and what types of content they do and don’t engage with. This information indicates the (limited) utility of social media; this should guide online engagement policy. This report also highlights and recognises the value of social media for the defence community — especially as a means of providing information and support for currently serving personnel and their families—by supporting the use of Facebook for those purposes by all defence units. DFAT should remove the direction for all Australian heads of mission overseas to be active on social media. While this presence is indeed useful and boosts the number of global government accounts, if our ambassadors aren’t interested in resourcing those accounts, the result can be sterile social media accounts that don’t engage and that struggle to connect with publics online. Instead, both departments should encourage those who are interested in and skilled at digital diplomacy to use openness, warmth and personality to engage.
- Topic:
- Foreign Policy, Defense Policy, Social Media, and Facebook
- Political Geography:
- Australia
6. The EU and Australia: Shared Opportunities and Common Challenges
- Author:
- Melissa Conley Tyler and Antonia Mochan
- Publication Date:
- 05-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- When Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop and I launched the EU-Australia Leadership Forum – last September in Brussels – she made a passionate case for our friendship, and for a strong and united Europe. She remembered thousands of Australians who died fighting in our continent during the world wars, and the 70 years of peace that a united Europe has made possible for its member states. She celebrated economic prosperity inside Europe, and the European Union’s contribution to a global order based on rules, on cooperation, on sustainable development.
- Topic:
- International Relations and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Europe and Australia
7. Iran: Regional Threats and Shiite-Sunni Challenges
- Author:
- Ian Dudgeon
- Publication Date:
- 12-2015
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- Any assessment of the multitude of dynamics that contribute to the ongoing regional stability in the Middle East requires an understanding of the factors that motivate the perceptions and actions of each state and other non-state actors. Iran and its neighbours, the Islamic State (IS) and the Sunnis and Shiite sects of Islam are all stakeholders in this mix, and in shaping any solution that contributes to regional peace and stability.
- Topic:
- International Security and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Iran
8. Emerging Scholars
- Author:
- Melissa Conley Tyler
- Publication Date:
- 12-2015
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) was established in 1924 to promote public understanding and interest in international affairs. The AIIA works actively to engage younger people in its work by coordinating events such as careers fairs, school events, mentoring, internships and a Young Diplomats Program. As part of the AIIA’s commitment to engage young people, AIIA National Office launched an internship program in 2006 that has hosted more than 150 interns to date. Internship opportunities also exist in all AIIA state and territory offices. Anyone who has served as an intern at the AIIA is eligible to submit a paper for publication in Emerging Scholars.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Australia
9. Afghanistan: transition to transformation, National and external stakeholder interests
- Author:
- Ian Dudgeon
- Publication Date:
- 02-2014
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- On 31 December 2014 Afghanistan will move from a UN-led period of ‘transition’ (2001- 2014) to an Afghan-led and owned ‘transformation decade’ (2015-2024). During transition, the UN has sought to rebuild the basic political, security, economic and societal institutions and infrastructure of Afghanistan, which were all but destroyed by the previous Taliban government, but are essential prerequisites for the restoration of Afghanistan as a functional nation. Transformation will seek to consolidate and build on the outcomes of transition and ensure that Afghanistan achieves the goal of being not only a functional nation, but also a stable and durable nation.
- Topic:
- International Relations and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Afghanistan
10. Emerging Scholars
- Author:
- Melissa Conley Tyler
- Publication Date:
- 12-2014
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) was established in 1924 to promote public understanding and interest in international affairs. The AIIA works actively to engage younger people in its work by coordinating events such as careers fairs, school events, mentoring, internships and a Young Diplomats Program. As part of the AIIA’s commitment to engage young people, AIIA National Office launched an internship program in 2006 that has hosted more than 150 interns to date. Internship opportunities also exist in all AIIA state and territory offices. Anyone who has served as an intern at the AIIA is eligible to submit a paper for publication in Emerging Scholars.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Australia
11. Ministers for Foreign Affairs 1960-72
- Author:
- Melissa Conley Tyler
- Publication Date:
- 12-2014
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- In February 2013 the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) held a one-day Forum to examine the achievements of Australia’s foreign ministers between 1960 and 1972. The Forum brought together some of Australia’s most eminent academics and experts in international relations, former senior diplomats and government officials to explore the major issues that confronted foreign ministers during this period.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Australia
12. Emerging Schlars
- Author:
- Melissa Conley Tyler
- Publication Date:
- 12-2013
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) was established in 1924 with to promote public understanding and interest in international affairs. The AIIA works actively to engage younger people in the community in its work by coordinating events such as careers fairs, school events, mentoring, internships and the Young Diplomats Program
- Topic:
- International Relations and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Australia
13. Emerging Scholars
- Author:
- Melissa Conley Tyler
- Publication Date:
- 12-2012
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) was established in 1924 to promote public understanding and interest in international affairs. The AIIA works actively to engage young people in its work including through young professionals’ networks, careers fairs, schools events, internships, mentoring and the Young Diplomats Program
- Topic:
- International Relations and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Australia
14. National President’s Forum: ‘India 2020’
- Author:
- Garry Rodan
- Publication Date:
- 08-2011
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- Broadly, Australia’s post-WWII foreign relations with Asia are characterised by four dominant themes, with the focus on India being most recent. From 1954 through to the mid-1990s, Australia’s dealings with Indo-China consumed considerable political energy of policy makers, not least through involvement in the Vietnam War. In the same period, Australian engagement with Southeast Asia was also extensive as many countries in this region secured independence and underwent significant social, political and economic transformations. Australia’s levels of diplomatic engagement and expertise on Southeast Asia were high, most notably in relation to Indonesia. Meanwhile, Australia’s engagement with Northeast Asia has been forged fundamentally by economic opportunities, reinforced by security objectives. Finally, an interest-driven relationship with South Asia has assumed priority since the 1990s as India has adopted a different post-Cold War foreign policy direction.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- India and Australia
15. Emerging Scholars
- Author:
- Melissa Conley Tyler
- Publication Date:
- 12-2011
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) was established more than 75 years ago to promote public understanding and interest in international affairs. In recent years, the AIIA has been active in extending its activities to younger members of the community. The AIIA has launched a variety of initiatives to engage young people including young professionals‟ networks, careers fairs, schools events, mentoring programs and the Young Diplomats Program.
- Topic:
- Diplomacy and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Australia
16. Emerging Scholars
- Author:
- Melissa Conley Tyler
- Publication Date:
- 12-2010
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) was established over 75 years ago to promote public understanding and interest in international affairs. In recent years, the AIIA has been increasingly active in promoting its activities to younger members of the community. The AIIA has launched a variety of initiatives to involve young people including Young Professional Networks, careers fairs, schools events and the Young Diplomat Program. This has helped the AIIA reach its present strength of more than 1600 members across seven State and Territory Branches.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Australia
17. Emerging Scholars
- Author:
- Melissa Conley Tyler
- Publication Date:
- 12-2009
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) was established over 75 years ago to promote public understanding and interest in international affairs. In recent years the AIIA has been increasingly active in promoting its activities to younger members of the community. The AIIA has launched a variety of initiatives to involve young people including ACCESS Youth Networks, careers fairs, schools events and the Young Diplomat Program. This has helped the AIIA reach its present strength of more than 1600 members across seven State and Territory Branches.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Australia