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    • Asia
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    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
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    The big picture: five lessons for five years of the Asia Power Index

    Hervé Lemahieu
    Superpower rivalry matters – but don’t be blinded to the role of smaller players in a region of many contests.
  • 24 Jan 2023
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Asia Pacific Regional Relationships
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australian Diplomacy

    Reality-checking the democracy agenda

    Eduard Lazarus
    Indonesia presents valuable lessons in Australia’s support for democracy in the Asia-Pacific.
  • 9 Jan 2023
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia in the Asian Century

    Asian Century White Paper: a decade on

    Melissa Conley Tyler
    The language may have changed, but the message stays the same.
  • 5 Dec 2022
    • China
    • China-India Relations
    • India
    • India's Navy
    • Indonesia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australian Navy

    Islands of opportunity: Australia and India’s chance to collaborate

    Radhey Tambi
    The Indian Ocean region is too large for any one country to manage but cooperation on island territories would help.
  • 28 Nov 2022
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Diplomacy
    • Foreign Policy

    Confident, competent, inconsistent: Australia’s strategic personality

    Ian Hall
    Canberra’s report card receives a solid “pleasing result” on Southeast Asia, but a “could do better” on the Pacific.
  • 20 Oct 2022
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • United States

    Supporting democracy without fighting autocracies

    Susannah Patton
    A binary Australian foreign policy isn’t on the cards. Engagement is still the best way to support regional democracy.
  • 4 Oct 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Development Assistance
    • Asia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Multilateral Development Banks

    Building a better development finance institution: Australia’s opportunity

    Jessica Mackenzie , Alberto Lemma
    Canberra can learn a lot about risk appetite and the culture of financing from those already in the space.
  • 25 Aug 2022
    • Asean
    • Philippines
    • Australia and Asia

    A new Marcos gets down to business

    Greg Earl
    After an easy election win, the Philippine president is facing challenges at home and abroad.
  • 23 Aug 2022
    • Asia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade

    Asia skills critical to Australia’s economic future and security

    Leigh Howard
    Regional expertise needs to extend well beyond base literacy and towards a more Asia-capable workforce.
  • 8 Aug 2022
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Diplomacy

    The opportunities of cross-public service diplomacy

    Shaun Cameron
    Collaborations between Australia and its regional partners on skills, knowledge and capacity offer a win-win scenario.
  • 26 Jul 2022
    • Indonesia
    • Australia and Asia

    Becoming a republic will improve Australia’s image in Asia

    Johannes Nugroho
    Does the Queen of Australia still exist? It’s a surprise to many, even in diplomatic circles.
  • 26 Jul 2022
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australian Diplomacy

    Wong’s own brand of diplomacy: will it work?

    James Chin
    Australia’s new foreign minister has a complicated road ahead in convincing Southeast Asia she’s a conduit for change.
  • 27 Jun 2022
    • Asean
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia and Asia
    • United States

    Why Australia shouldn’t put all its eggs in the Quad basket

    Henry Storey
    The regional security pact is yet to prove its worth. Options must be kept open, with minilaterals top of the list.
  • 20 Apr 2022
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • Asean
    • Australia and Asia

    Strategic divergence: Australia’s Southeast Asia challenge

    Susannah Patton
    Australia’s next government needs to find ways to relate to the region that don’t depend on geopolitical alignment.
  • 25 Mar 2022
    • Asean
    • Australia and Asia
    • Human rights

    What counts for victims of trafficking?

    Cate Sumner
    Sharing data is key to combatting human rights abuses against vulnerable groups from the ASEAN region.
  • 12 Oct 2021
    • Australia and Asia
    • South Korea

    Australia-Korea minilateral: A potential win-win

    Hayley Channer
    Middle powers can reap the rewards of cooperation on security, cyber and democratic systems.
  • 21 Sep 2021
    • US Navy
    • Maritime Security
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Australian Navy
    • Asean
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • China
    • United Kingdom
    • France

    AUKUS and the CPTPP: It’s all about China

    Ian Hill
    Security deterrence is only one factor in the new and fast-moving geostrategic environment of the Indo-Pacific.
  • 18 Jun 2020
    • Institutions
    • Australia and Asia

    Closing the book on Asia

    James Spigelman
    The National Library of Australia is curtailing its Southeast Asia collection. The move is not in the national interest.
  • 25 May 2020
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and Asia

    How is an advanced Australia faring in the Asian century?

    Tim Harcourt
    The power of proximity has long surpassed the “tyranny of distance” in Australian trade relations.
  • 25 Sep 2019
    • Australia and Asia
    • Review

    Book review: Hidden histories of Australia’s cameleers

    Aarti Betigeri
    A historian retraces the links between South Asia and Australia, uncovering a rich and complex legacy.
  • 29 Aug 2019
    • Global Economy
    • Australia and Asia

    Economic diplomacy: Exporting education, tapping Vossies, more

    Greg Earl
    Australia grapples with sharp shifts in student numbers amid a parallel debate about standards and foreign influence.
  • 15 May 2019
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Indonesia
    • Australia’s election 2019

    Time to reverse the Indonesian language disaster on our shores

    Melissa Crouch
    It is crucial the next government invest in languages, that of Australia’s largest neighbour the most obvious example.
  • 26 Apr 2019
    • Regional relationships
    • Australia and Asia

    Culture cringe: Laughter links Australia and Asia

    Melissa Conley Tyler
    <p>Field research on Asian comedians’ views of Australia reveals some surprising commonalities.</p>
  • 17 Apr 2019
    • Australia in the World
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australia’s election 2019

    A question of faith: future Coalition foreign policy under Morrison

    Geoff Kitney
    <p>If he wins the Australian election, Scott Morrison's evangelical Christian faith may influence foreign policy.</p>
  • 19 Sep 2017
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Global Economic Governance
    • IMF
    • Australia and Asia

    Managing economic risk in Asia: A strategy for Australia

    Stephen Grenville
    Much more active capital-flow management would reduce the likelihood of crisis.
  • 18 Sep 2017
    • Diplomacy
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Global Economic Governance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • IMF
    • Australia and Asia

    Using economic diplomacy to reduce financial risks in Asia

    Roland Rajah
    The IMF will remain important, particularly for dealing with deeper crises. But it risks becoming less central and an increasingly last resort.
  • 15 Sep 2017
    • Australia and Asia
    • North Korea

    ‘Suicide note’?: Turnbull’s North Korea rhetoric will no longer wash

    Sam Roggeveen
    Turnbull's rhetoric fails to take into account the fact that North Korea now probably has an operational ICBM.
  • 23 Jun 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    A revived Quad won't help Australia

    Greg Raymond
    Australia has a perfect right to form associations, groupings, dialogues and alliances with whomever it chooses. But wise statecraft does not deal only with entitlements and rights.
  • 1 May 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    Where India fits in an activist Australian foreign policy

    James Curran
    Australia’s regional engagement in the years ahead can never be conceived within the US/China framework alone.
  • 26 Apr 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    India remains cautious about the 'quad'

    Abhijit Singh
    Indian policymakers still shy away from a grand maritime alliance in the Indo-Pacific.
  • 10 Apr 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    Turnbull’s India visit an opportunity to revive the Quad

    Lavina Lee
    Even if it was ahead of its time in 2007, the contemporary strategic logic of reviving the Quad is compelling.
  • 20 Mar 2017
    • Australia and Asia

    Defending the liberal order takes more than rhetoric

    Michael Heazle
    Julie Bishop’s call for a US strengthening of the liberal order indicates a worrying staleness about policy thinking in Canberra.
  • 28 Oct 2016
    • Asia
    • Australia in the World
    • China-Australia Relations
    • China's Economy
    • Australia and Asia

    Barnaby Joyce's mixed messaging on property rights

    James Laurenceson
    Joyce made headlines this week for criticising Labor on vegetation management and land clearing, but welcomed Morrison's decision to prevent the Kidman sale.
  • 9 Sep 2016
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia and Asia

    What needs to happen before the 2018 ASEAN-Australia leaders summit

    Patrick Ingle
  • 24 May 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    Australia and India don't see eye to eye on the Indo-Pacific

    Darshana Baruah
  • 24 Feb 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • South China Sea
    • Australia and Asia

    Turnbull Government adrift on ambiguous South China Sea rhetoric

    Stephen Conroy
  • 4 Feb 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • China-Australia Relations
    • South China Sea
    • Australia and Asia

    We should think carefully about an Australian FONOP in the South China Sea

    Nick Bisley
  • 22 Jan 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • South China Sea
    • Australia and Asia

    Five ways Australian politicians could do some good on the South China Sea

    Greg Raymond
  • 20 Nov 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Regional relationships
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Foreign Policy
    • Asia and the Middle East
    • US-China

    Much at stake for Turnbull and the region at East Asia Summit

    Elliot Brennan
  • 5 Nov 2015
    • Global Economy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Australia and Asia

    India's interests are aligning with Australia's; now Modi must grasp the opportunity

    Pradeep Taneja
  • 2 Nov 2015
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia and Asia

    Why no tears will be shed for Australia's knights and dames

    Emma Connors
  • 30 Oct 2015
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Defence Intelligence and Security

    As RAN prepares to exercise with China's navy, Australia risks a PR disaster

    Euan Graham
  • 12 Oct 2015
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia and Asia

    Diagnosing Asia's Australian problem

    Melissa Conley Tyler
  • 30 Sep 2015
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Cyber Security
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Regional relationships
    • Public Diplomacy And International Broadcasting
    • International Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • US-China

    Xi in America: China's poor grasp of public diplomacy on full display

    Kerry Brown
  • 14 Sep 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Sustainability
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and Asia
    • Foreign Policy
    • Nuclear energy

    Reader riposte: Australia-India nuclear deal

  • 3 Sep 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Regional relationships
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Asia and the Middle East

    Reflections on the 2015 Lowy Lecture: Greater Asia

    Euan Graham
  • 28 Aug 2015
    • Global Economy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Country And Regional Studies
    • Global Economic Governance
    • Australia and Asia

    Economic crisis in China? We're not there yet

    Leon Berkelmans
  • 14 Aug 2015
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Australia and Asia

    This week in Jakarta: Supersemar, cabinet reshuffle and hip hop economics

    Catriona Croft-Cusworth
  • 27 Jul 2015
    • Global Economy
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Country And Regional Studies
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and Asia
    • Foreign Policy

    Indonesia: We don't have to be condemned to crisis

    Andrew Parker
  • 27 Jul 2015
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and Asia
    • Foreign Policy

    Indonesia: Too many 'unforced errors'

    Stephen Grenville
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