Skip to content
Inside Story
About
Donate
Sign up
Search
Search
Menu
About
Donate
Sign up
Search
Search
diplomacy
Books & Arts
Roaring back
Jane Goodall
30 March 2024
A major new series about the postwar world poses the inevitable question: has the cold war returned?
Books & Arts
The father of “soft power”
Graeme Dobell
28 March 2024
An eighty-year retrospective from the American academic who changed the way nations attract and argue
National Affairs
Shadow play
Tony Walker
21 March 2024
Both countries got what they wanted out of Wang Yi’s visit to Canberra
Books & Arts
Soeharto’s Australian whisperer
Hamish McDonald
21 March 2024
How a former Jehovah’s Witness activist became a secret intermediary between the Indonesian leader and the West
From the archive
Kissinger and his critics
Barbara Keys
1 December 2023
How does the former secretary of state feel about being called a war criminal?
Essays & Reportage
France’s stubborn grip
Hamish McDonald
5 October 2023
While the French president risks a new civil war just three hours’ flight from Australia, Canberra’s diplomacy remains muted
Correspondents
Where’s the climate action?
Michael Jacobs
5 June 2023
The latest UN climate conference is under way in Bonn. But the real action might be elsewhere
Books & Arts
President Wilson on the couch
Nick Haslam
16 May 2023
What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?
National Affairs
Pink gin diplomacy
Hamish McDonald
4 May 2023
The government’s strategic review has left the commentariat puzzled
Correspondents
The egotism of German pacifism
Klaus Neumann
14 March 2023
Our correspondent casts a critical eye over an emerging German peace movement
Books & Arts
With Edith Berry in Geneva
Hamish McDonald
21 February 2023
The real-world backdrop of Frank Moorhouse’s celebrated trilogy was alive with idealistic characters
Books & Arts
Scenes from a marriage
Nicholas Brown
3 October 2022
Two daughters profile a controversial father and an enigmatic mother against the backdrop of the growing bush capital
Books & Arts
Lupine or supine?
Graeme Smith
5 September 2021
Are China’s wolf warrior diplomats for real?
International
Our enemy’s enemy
Hamish McDonald
27 August 2021
Yesterday’s bombings in Kabul underline the choices facing Western countries
National Affairs
Bagman, buddy or career diplomat?
Hamish McDonald
9 February 2021
A new president in the White House means a new American ambassador in Canberra
National Affairs
Australia’s soft-power gap
Paul Barratt
2 July 2020
The launch of two new defence reports highlights the government’s preoccupation with military force and the American alliance
National Affairs
Australia and India: is it different this time?
Robin Jeffrey
14 August 2018
Along with the vast increase in migration, most signs point to increased cooperation between Australia and India
Essays & Reportage
The undiplomatic diplomat
Alan Fewster
8 February 2018
Extract
| Posted to Chungking in 1941, Keith Waller found his allies almost as challenging as the enemy
Books & Arts
Parallel lives
Graeme Dobell
29 March 2017
Books
| A former journalist and diplomat offers a double-jointed view of Australia’s international role