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Tag: Diplomacy

Proactive Defence diplomacy not American militarism better supports Australia’s security

10 June 2022 Mike Scrafton Australian focus

Credit is due to Australia’s new Prime Minister and Foreign Minister for moving swiftly to correct the foreign and climate policy failures of the Morrison era. But shouldn’t there be a similar rethinking and resetting of strategic policy?

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Refreshingly, Biden’s Middle East diplomacy looks strategic

3 March 2021 Mike Scrafton By Mike Scrafton, Global

President Trump left the Middle East in a parlous state. President Biden’s first steps in the region look more promising. The shift in America’s policy in the region, while subtle, is clear; and the messages it is sending will be received in Tel Aviv, Tehran, and Riyadh.

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About Mike Scrafton

Mike Scrafton is a regularly-published writer on Australian and international affairs. Read more about Mike here.

Most read this week

  • Warriors, war and Mike Pezzullo’s ANZAC Day message 8 May 2021
  • It’s the company you keep – Rules of Engagement and the future of ANZUS 21 November 2025
  • A European farce de réassurance 16 September 2025
  • Trump’s romantic nationalism and the direction of US foreign policy 30 September 2025

Most read in the last year

  • Are we paying enough attention to Trump’s Gleichschaltung-like ‘Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership’? 27 September 2023
  • Postwar Ukraine will pose the hardest problems 13 March 2023
  • Trump’s quick deal with Putin could reshape the global order 19 September 2024
  • A requiem for the Indo-Pacific Strategy: Trump’s Arctic pivot 13 March 2025

UKRAINE

  • On its current trajectory, no settlement outcome in Ukraine bodes well for Europe
    24 November 2025
  • The Gordian knots – security guarantees and borders for Ukraine
    5 October 2025
  • A European farce de réassurance
    16 September 2025
  • Trump’s quick deal with Putin could reshape the global order
    19 September 2024
  • The aimlessness of the G7 on Ukraine only delays the inevitable
    20 June 2024
  • Postwar Ukraine will pose the hardest problems
    13 March 2023
  • Tanks for Ukraine won’t bring war-ending negotiations any closer
    27 January 2023

Featured: Revisiting COVID 19

Blinded by ‘the science’: COVID-19 and the authority of science in public policy

15 April 2020

COVID-19: ‘Dirty hands’ and political leadership in a crisis

25 March 2020

Herd immunity or herd culling? Shades of Bentham, Spencer and Galton stalk government COVID-19 responses

17 March 2020

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Mike is an independent writer and derives no income from his writing. He has no current association with any commercial or profit-making organisation, and does not endorse the products or services of any business entity.

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