Melissa Tyler

Dec 28, 2024 | johnmenadue.com | Melissa Tyler |Viet Dung Trinh

In October 2024, four key Southeast Asian countries became partners of BRICS, making the organisation much closer to home for Australians. So why have Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam put themselves on a path to membership? What is BRICS? BRICS was established in 2009 by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa and is viewed as a group of emerging economies that work together to strengthen economic ties and limit the leverage of the US in global financial and trading systems.

Sep 16, 2024 | lowyinstitute.org | Melissa Tyler

Heard diplomats or analysts using a new turn of phrase only to wonder, “What does that mean?” Today we ask …What is “economic statecraft”? Economic statecraft refers to a state’s use of economic policy instruments to achieve foreign policy objectives. Australia uses various tools of economic statecraft – including development assistance, loans, work visas, investment incentives and travel restrictions – as foreign policy levers to achieve its aims.

Sep 10, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Melissa Tyler

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Aug 27, 2024 | openforum.com.au | Melissa Tyler

This week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Tonga for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. It’s a meeting that brings together 18 leaders from across Melanesia (including Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu), Polynesia (including Samoa, Cook Islands and Tuvalu) and Micronesia (including Palau, Kiribati and Marshall Islands). Pacific regionalism is important to Australia – and can’t be taken for granted.

Jul 30, 2024 | themandarin.com.au | Melissa Tyler

Did you know Australia is involved in at least two dozen Pacific Islands’ regional bodies? Law officers and auditors meet through the Pacific Islands Law Officers’ Network and the Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions. Police, border and immigration join their counterparts at the Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police, Pacific Immigration Development Community and Oceania Customs Organisation.