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Demanding the Future: Navigating the Pacific's Youth Bulge
Analyses
Demanding the Future: Navigating the Pacific's Youth Bulge
With half the region's population aged under 23, the Pacific's 'youth bulge' will affect every area of development in the region in the coming decades
Assessing the Quad: Prospects and Limitations of Quadrilateral Cooperation for Advancing Australia’s Interests
Analyses
Assessing the Quad: Prospects and Limitations of Quadrilateral Cooperation for Advancing Australia’s Interests
There is growing agreement between Australia, India, Japan and the United States that as China rises in Asia, the rules-based order needs strengthening and defending; but does the…
West Papua: The Issue That Won't Go Away for Melanesia
Analyses
West Papua: The Issue That Won't Go Away for Melanesia
West Papuans continue to fight for independence with the support of many Pacific nations. Despite Indonesia’s opposition and the recent impact of COVID-19 on the region, the…
The Path of Least Resilience: Autocratic Rule and External Powers in the Middle East
Analyses
The Path of Least Resilience: Autocratic Rule and External Powers in the Middle East
The examples of Egypt and Saudi Arabia show the risks in betting on the stability of autocratic regimes in the region. 
China’s Economic Choices
Analyses
China’s Economic Choices
China’s economic growth has fallen to its slowest rate since 1990, and this deceleration looks set to continue unless China implements the kinds of deep reforms behind the…
Foreign and Security Policy in the new Malaysia
Analyses
Foreign and Security Policy in the new Malaysia
Malaysia’s foreign and security policy faces myriad challenges, but not much is likely to change under Mahathir Mohamad’s ‘New Malaysia’ framework.
Ocean of debt? Belt and Road and debt diplomacy in the Pacific
Analyses
Ocean of debt? Belt and Road and debt diplomacy in the Pacific
China has not been engaged in debt trap diplomacy — at least not yet
The Bougainville referendum and beyond
Analyses
The Bougainville referendum and beyond
As Bougainville prepares for a referendum on independence, Australia must navigate a policy response that acknowledges the history of conflict and colonialism there,…