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  • 2 days ago
    • South Korea
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    Command and sovereignty: Who controls South Korea’s military in wartime?

    Gabriela Bernal
    Known as “OPCON”, the transfer of operational leadership has long posed a dilemma that has only deepened with Donald Trump’s presidency.
  • 2 days ago
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    The new transactional era: Australia’s US alliance needs review

    Hugh Piper
    Political inertia threatens Australia’s ability to adapt to a changing relationship.
  • 18 Mar 2025
    • Diplomacy
    • Public Opinion
    • United States

    Silencing the Voice of America

    Susannah Patton
    Data from the Asia Power Index shows just how successful the Voice of America has been.
  • 18 Mar 2025
    • Aid & Development
    • China
    • United States

    US aid cuts are a soft power surrender to China

    Riley Duke
    Even a static China will see its influence fill the vacuum left by US withdrawal.
  • 17 Mar 2025
    • China
    • Europe
    • European Union
    • United States

    Will Trump force Europe into China’s arms?

    Henry Storey
    It’s not clear that Beijing has much to give when it comes to resolving the most vexed issues in Sino-European relations.
  • 13 Mar 2025
    • India
    • Trade
    • United States

    Trump’s tariffs on India: Modi will have to step back to move ahead

    Shankaran Nambiar
    US efforts to pry open India’s markets will leave Modi in a difficult position with domestic business interests.
  • 12 Mar 2025
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • United States

    Trump’s tariffs: The smarter option for Australia to retaliate

    Jenny Gordon
    A tariff tit-for-tat game will only cost more. Cooperation with other countries is the better answer.
  • 12 Mar 2025
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • United States

    Steel yourselves, Trump’s worldwide tariffs threaten Australia more

    Roland Rajah
    The direct consequences of steel and aluminium restrictions are small – but the big picture cost to Australia lies in damage to the global economy.
  • 10 Mar 2025
    • Australia
    • United States

    Time to retire the term “Plan B”

    Susannah Patton
    Australia needs to respond with urgency to the second Trump administration, but framing the conversation around the idea of a Plan B is self-defeating.
  • 10 Mar 2025
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • United States

    Pyongyang–Moscow ties will outlive the Ukraine conflict

    Gabriela Bernal
    The relationship between Russia and North Korea will be impacted by Washington's stance on Ukraine, but the long-term alliance will remain strong.
  • 6 Mar 2025
    • Aid & Development
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • United States

    How US funding cuts could exacerbate North Korea’s humanitarian crisis

    Gabriela Bernal
    Trump’s obsession with getting the deal and an interest in resuming talks with Kim Jong Un all spell trouble for human rights.
  • 4 Mar 2025
    • China
    • Russia
    • United States

    Geopolitical fantasists: No, Trump won’t pull off a “reverse Nixon”

    Michael Clarke
    The character of international politics is vastly different, now to then.
  • 4 Mar 2025
    • Global Economy
    • Multilateral Development Banks
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • United States

    Why collective action and institutions matter

    Jenny Gordon
    Otherwise, the bears win.
  • 1 Mar 2025
    • Afghanistan War
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • United States

    Trump strong-arms Zelenskyy: Afghans have seen these tactics before

    Shadi Khan Saif
    US talks with the Taliban during Trump 1.0 undercut the nascent Afghan democracy in favour of a “deal”.
  • 1 Mar 2025
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • United States

    Trump, Russia and Ukraine: Descent into lawlessness

    Jon Richardson
    The US President has joined the standover merchants.
  • 1 Mar 2025
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • United States

    The Oval Office ambush

    Mick Ryan
    There is a deep-seated hostility from Trump and Vance towards Zelenskyy that defies short term fixes – so the test of courage falls to other Western leaders.
  • 28 Feb 2025
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Economic diplomacy: A fairy tale response to Trump’s tariffs

    Greg Earl
    Australia’s retirement savings pool is an important new economic relations lever, but it can only be rolled out so many times.
  • 28 Feb 2025
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Public Opinion
    • Public Opinion
    • United States

    Young men are lurching right worldwide, but is Australia immune?

    Intifar Chowdhury
    With political disillusionment at all-time highs, how we speak about purpose in the world matters.
  • 27 Feb 2025
    • Aid & Development
    • Development Assistance
    • Australia in the World
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • United Kingdom
    • United States

    UK aid cut: Implications for an increasingly lonely Australia

    Grace Stanhope , Riley Duke
    Starmer’s announcement is another demonstration of a narrowing perception of global security.
  • 25 Feb 2025
    • China
    • Technology
    • United States

    AI: China and the US go head-to-head

    Jean Dong , Christoph Nedopil
    As the superpowers vie for tech supremacy, Asia must play the usual juggling act.
  • 25 Feb 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Canada
    • United States

    For Trump, Australia is nothing like Canada

    George Boone
    Neighbours often have more complications than distant friends.
  • 21 Feb 2025
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    America agrees on “peace through strength”, just not what it costs

    Tom Corben
    A budget battle is shaping, and perhaps not in the direction expected.
  • 21 Feb 2025
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • United States

    Will shock therapy spur a new realpolitik in Europe?

    Ian Hill
    The ructions in the Western alliance this past week will advance Moscow’s long-term security objectives
  • 20 Feb 2025
    • Aid & Development
    • United States

    What’s next for USAID?

    Lester Munson
    Donald Trump alone can’t decide its future.
  • 19 Feb 2025
    • United States

    Wolf warrior diplomacy with MAGA characteristics

    Nick Bisley
    Provocation was the point – then, and now.
  • 18 Feb 2025
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Lessons for Australia’s policy dilemmas from America’s “post-Neoliberal delusion”

    Jenny Gordon
    Economists prefer pricing approaches, but restricting choice through regulatory requirements is far more common – and carries a cost.
  • 17 Feb 2025
    • Europe
    • Global Issues
    • United States

    The real crisis lies within the West itself

    Patricia Schouker
    Lamenting American domestic politics is less productive than addressing the structural forces driving global instability.
  • 17 Feb 2025
    • Climate change
    • United Nations
    • Pacific Islands
    • United States

    What the Pacific has said about Trump’s Paris pull-out

    Isabelle Zhu-Maguire
    Listen to the region and the message is clear – wrong way, go back.
  • 14 Feb 2025
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Trade
    • United States

    The latest round of tariffs threats might be the least of our worries

    Jenny Gordon
    Trump looks to target the integrity of payments systems.
  • 14 Feb 2025
    • Australia in the World
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • United Nations
    • United States

    Australia can no longer assume multilateralism will work in its favour

    Mercedes Page
    With US withdrawals and China's growing influence, Australia must rethink its approach to the UN.
  • 14 Feb 2025
    • Australia
    • Trade
    • United States

    Aluminium exports under fire: Is Australia really to blame?

    Naoise McDonagh
    Trump’s position is built more on ambiguity than fact and that is where Australia must hone its argument.
  • 13 Feb 2025
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • United States

    How Australia should respond to the implosion of US aid

    Roland Rajah , Grace Stanhope
    Australia’s interests won’t be served by letting vital multilateral anchors of the “rules-based order” wither, decay and collapse.
  • 13 Feb 2025
    • Bangladesh
    • United States

    Fear and loathing in Dhaka and DC

    Abhijnan Rej
    An unlikely comparison, maybe, but revealing nonetheless.
  • 12 Feb 2025
    • Global Issues
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • United Nations
    • United States

    What a US withdrawal from WHO will mean for global health

    Alexandra Finch
    And it’s a raw deal for the United States, too.
  • 11 Feb 2025
    • India
    • United States

    Howdy Modi under Trump II

    Saira Bano
    India will maintain its policy of autonomy while sharing concerns with the United States over China’s rise.
  • 10 Feb 2025
    • Aid & Development
    • United States

    Aid on ice: How Trump’s freeze hurts the Pacific and Southeast Asia

    Alexandre Dayant
    The outlook is anything but reassuring.
  • 7 Feb 2025
    • Global Economy
    • United States

    The dominant dollar

    Stephen Grenville
    If you’re not convinced, I have a book to sell you.
  • 7 Feb 2025
    • China
    • Australia
    • Foreign Policy
    • Climate change
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Sustainability
    • Technology
    • United States

    The old theories don’t fit the new world order

    David Morris
    A workable and sustainable internationalism will need to grapple with questions of diversity and multipolarity.
  • 5 Feb 2025
    • Philippines
    • South China Sea
    • United States

    Trump’s grand bargain? The Philippines caught between US and China

    Richard Javad Heydarian
    Manila is increasingly aware that a defence dilemma could be exposed by the president’s transactional foreign policy.
  • 5 Feb 2025
    • Australia
    • Canada
    • United States

    Why, for Australia, Trump’s treatment of Canada is so troubling

    Sam Roggeveen
    The US alliance is far shallower and more transactional than its Australian supporters like to believe.
  • 4 Feb 2025
    • Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • United States

    Trump and the global nuclear order

    Anubhav S Goswami
    The impact of the President’s second term on the global nuclear order could be profoundly negative.
  • 3 Feb 2025
    • Trade
    • United States

    Trump’s second trade war risks unwinding the benefit of his first

    Roland Rajah
    Developing countries and global supply chain resilience will be damaged by Trump’s “softer on China harder on others” approach.
  • 30 Jan 2025
    • China
    • Chinese Trade
    • Trade
    • United States

    China versus America on global trade

    Roland Rajah , Ahmed Albayrak
    China’s unbalanced global trading relationships have only deepened.
  • 30 Jan 2025
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • United States

    Trump’s trade policy: Risks for Australia

    Stephen Moran
    With tariff threats against both friend and foe, regional trade agreements will assume greater importance.
  • 28 Jan 2025
    • China
    • Russia
    • International law
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • United Nations
    • United States

    Abandoning the rules-based order is no solution

    Malcolm Jorgensen
    Competing narratives about the international order are being weaponised in an age of renewed territorial ambitions.
  • 28 Jan 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    Revitalising Australia’s out-of-date US alliance

    Peter Layton
    Australia should have a treaty as strong as the NATO treaty.
  • 23 Jan 2025
    • Al Qaeda
    • Islamic State
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • United Nations
    • United States

    What does the Trump presidency mean for Women, Peace and Security?

    Susan Hutchinson
    International peace and security requires due consideration of the world’s women. This is no radical social theory.
  • 21 Jan 2025
    • North Korea
    • Russia
    • United States

    This time, Russia stands in the way of any US‑North Korea deal

    Khang Vu
    If Donald Trump wants to revive his showpiece negotiation, he will find the calculation has since changed.
  • 20 Jan 2025
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Is DOGE the answer to improving productivity?

    Jenny Gordon
    Putting fear into the bureaucracy is not a way to encourage better results.
  • 20 Jan 2025
    • United States

    What would the founders of the US-led liberal international order think?

    Nicholas Khoo
    As Trump returns to power, international instability is the “new normal”.
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