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Tag: Middle East

Did Trump gift Biden a more stable Middle East?

3 March 2021 Online editor Analysis and comment

Commentators are divided on the nature of the Trump Administration’s legacy in the Middle East. Was it left in a parlous state, or was Trump’s parting gift to Biden a more stable region?

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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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Climate Crisis

The intergenerational report – a climate fairy tale

26 August 2023

The 2023 Intergenerational Report displays unwarranted optimism about the impacts and consequences that global warming will have on Australia. A problem anchored in the ongoing misconception that global warming is an economic issue and that markets will save us in the end.

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Facing “Hothouse Earth”, will governments continue half-a-century of inaction?

7 August 2022

For 50 years climate research has accumulated on climate change, and governments, with the major democracies at the forefront, have failed to respond. Facing ‘a perilous, all-pervasive climate breakdown’, what will they do now?

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Global warming: the nine essential questions for election candidates

13 January 2022

Trends in Australia’s emissions growth are disturbing. What questions should be put to the political classes who aspire to take on the responsibility for the wellbeing, welfare, prosperity and security of Australian citizens?

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AUKUS

An Open Letter to the Australian Government from concerned scholars regarding the AUKUS Agreement

26 May 2023

All over bar the shouting: the inevitability of a submarine farce

1 March 2023

Time to talk about time and the AUKUS submarines

18 February 2023

An AUKUS ménage à trois

8 February 2023

All pathways to AUKUS submarines sub-optimal

14 January 2023

America’s shiny submarine lure reels in Australia’s sovereignty

10 December 2022

About Mike Scrafton

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

Most read this month

  • An American theocracy: the advance of Christian nationalism 26 January 2021
  • The intergenerational report – a climate fairy tale 26 August 2023
  • Ocean of debt? Belt and Road and debt diplomacy in the Pacific (Lowy Institute) 27 July 2020
  • What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS) 29 December 2020
  • Illiberalism rising: Will a post-liberal America threaten the international order? 18 September 2023

Most read in the last year

  • Australia’s foreign policy: Resurgent realism or the survival of multilateralism? 5 July 2020
  • What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS) 29 December 2020
  • An American theocracy: the advance of Christian nationalism 26 January 2021
  • America’s proposed Taiwan Policy Act could be a game-changing act of provocation 20 September 2022
  • Will Australia always follow the innocent nation into war? 25 March 2023

Disclaimer

Mike’s writing is not published with his permission on any profit-making websites, blogs or forums associated with profit-making business entities. Mike has no current association with any commercial organisation. He is a completely independent writer, derives no income from his writing, and does not endorse the products or services of any business entity.

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