Susan Harris Rimmer

Sten Rynning traces the political history of NATO from its inception in 1949, through to the ongoing Ukraine War and into 2024. This book identifies a pattern in the Alliance’s past, at a critical crossroads as it must decide how it progresses in a rapidly changing global environment.

Air strikes are nothing new for Myanmar’s civilians, but since the 2021 coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government, they’ve become frequent, deadlier, and targeted. The “Sit-tat” (Myanmar Army) uses wartime aircraft like the Yak-130s and MIG-29s to bomb schools, monasteries, homes, and ethnic communities in a brutal display of power.

Thomas Hale’s book Long Problems skilfully unpacks the issue of time that prevents humans to adequately formulate and implement responses. He provides a range of options to overcome this challenge, using climate change as the prime example.

SUSAN HARRIS RIMMER AND ELISE STEPHENSON  |  In the Asia-Pacific, where rapid social and political changes intersect with longstanding Security vetting, a key step in selecting diplomats, plays a critical yet often unseen role in shaping who gets to represent nations on the global stage. While designed to protect national interests, these processes can also reinforce gendered, racialised, and cultural biases, limiting diverse representation in diplomacy. Susan Harris Rimmer and Elise Stephenson

In a rare act of bipartisanship, an independent MP and a Liberal backbencher have proposed properly factoring in young people’s needs when drafting new policy.

By Professor Susan Harris Rimmer and Professor Rowena Maguire Analysis Feminist foreign policy provides a lens through which we can see climate action as a shared priority and human security issue. Australia should use feminist climate diplomacy to…

The 2024-2025 Australian federal budget addressed current cost-of-living issues but lacked any real clarity around future planning. It has raised concerns about the long-term impacts of budget measures on future generations.

Share The Russian invasion of Ukraine has revealed the criticality of drones as a weapon system for modern battlefields. Yet as other states rush to follow suit, there are some sobering realities to face from “high-tech” tools of warfare. In 2020,…

This post has been contributed by Professor Susan Harris Rimmer, a Professor in the Griffith Law School, Leader of the Climate Action Beacon and co-founder of the Gender Equality Research Network (GERN) and a member of the Law Futures Centre and Ms…

America’s foreign policy has always been a battleground between isolationist and internationalist forces, according to Charles Kupchan. The tussle continues to this very day, and could intensify if Donald Trump wins the next US Presidential election.…

In a thought-provoking and insightful panel discussion hosted by the Griffith Asia Institute, the launch of a new book titled Climate Politics in Oceania: Renewing Australia-Pacific Relations in a Warming World sparked a crucial conversation on the…

The Australian government’s national gender equality strategy “Working For Women”, released this month, is the first in four decades and follows a path marked out by prime ministers Bob Hawke and Gough Whitlam. It comes after years of neglect that…

In recent years, Australia’s global climate policy leadership has faced severe challenges, tarnishing its reputation and credibility, particularly in the Oceania region. Meanwhile, Pacific Island nations have gained significant momentum, leveraging…

As International Women’s Day comes around once more, the latest gender pay gap figures for Australia have made for disappointing reading, including naming those companies where the gap is widest. Looking at full-time equivalent total remuneration,…

The heat records just keep breaking; it’s much hotter for much longer. As our communities grapple with record-breaking temperatures and prolonged heatwaves, the human cost of extreme heat events is becoming increasingly evident. July 2023 has marked…

Queensland's premier insists she has "absolutely learnt" from a politically damaging few months, as Labor and the Liberal-National Party (LNP) both begin unofficial election campaigns one year out from polling day. Annastacia Palaszczuk fought off…

This blog post was first published by The Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA), the leading organization representing researchers, academics, and students in the fields of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies in Australia. Read the…

In recent years, many global intelligence agencies are turning their eye inward with major reforms, analysis, and strategizing around a new risk: the sector’s stifling lack of diversity. From the UK’s 2018 report into Diversity and Inclusion in the…

Elise Stephenson and Susan Harris Rimmer explore new research on diversity within intelligence agencies and its implications. In recent years, many global intelligence agencies are turning their eye inward with major reforms, analysis, and…

Time for the generations to fight together for a fairer future How old should I be when I get arrested for climate protesting? I’ll tell you why this is on my mind, with the alarm bell of the final IPCC report clanging in my ears. I have been…