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A Week in the Life of an Embassy Intern
[Hannah Stenton] The Australian Embassy in Berlin is responsible for relations with Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. There are...
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Jan 30, 20196 min read
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ASEAN-EU FTA: Why Restart Negotiations Now?
[Nanthini Sambanthan] On July 14 2018, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that the EU and ASEAN had agreed to restart the...
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Dec 5, 20185 min read
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State Compliance with the Non-Refoulement Principle: the Importance of Regional Human Rights Instrum
[Emily Forbes] Since the inception of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (‘The Convention’), there has been much...
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Nov 22, 20185 min read
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The European Perspective on NATO
[Marek Kopanicky] From the perspective of the ordinary European citizen, the North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is just one out of...
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May 31, 20184 min read
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The Economic Effect of the Refugee Crisis on Greece
[Emma Fabreguette] In 2015 over 885,000 refugees arrived in Europe; fleeing from political unrest in Middle Eastern states (e.g. as...
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Mar 8, 201810 min read
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The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Where Are We At?
[Fred Johnston] To put the largest refugee crisis since World War II into perspective, the number of refugees that flee Syria to other...
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Jan 22, 20184 min read
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Will The Rising Wave of Nationalism Ever Trump Globalisation?
[Niren Menon] Globalisation, a concept that has underpinned our world economy ever since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, is now under...
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Oct 12, 20175 min read
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The EU as a Template for Regional Integration: the Case of ASEAN
[Steven Crawley] The experience of the European Union (EU) is considered the most successful case of regional integration and has thus...
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Apr 21, 20178 min read
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BREXIT is Not a Dirty Word
[Andy Masanauskas] The other side of the story amongst the one-sided media coverage. From the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, through the...
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Sep 30, 20165 min read
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The Aftermath of BREXIT and the Accession of Theresa May
[Lee Edward Ellison] “It’s happened, the Brits have done it and this is not good!” Not the typical phrase one would hear coming from a...
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Jul 18, 20166 min read
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The Commonwealth of Nations: A Forgotten But Vital Institution
[Brendan Tam] The Commonwealth of Nations is an institution that is popularly either ignored or derided as anachronistic and a continuing...
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Feb 9, 20163 min read
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