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  • 27 Feb 2025
    • Australia's Army
    • Defence & Security

    To “protect-and-project” – A call for Australian land power in the Indo-Pacific

    Iain MacGillivray
    The changing character of war may mean fighting more than just one type of war against one type of adversary.
  • 26 Feb 2025
    • Defence & Security
    • Europe
    • European Union
    • Multilateral Institutions

    Two cheers for the European Union

    Mark Beeson
    Democracy, peace and cooperation don’t happen by accident. Will the EU continue to defy Europe’s violent history?
  • 26 Feb 2025
    • Technology
    • Transnational Challenges

    Social media: A place that truth forgot

    Selwyn Parker
    Of all the online sources of misinformation and abuse, there are some top offenders.
  • 26 Feb 2025
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Defence & Security

    The building blocks for security partnership in the Indo-Pacific

    Michael MacArthur Bosack
    There are five basic requirements for successful military-to-military cooperation. Australia is already ahead of the game.
  • 26 Feb 2025
    • Terrorism
    • Transnational Challenges

    Extremism from the mainstream

    James Paterson
    It is becoming more difficult and less predictable to identify the ideological bases motivating violent action.
  • 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
    • Europe
    • Germany

    New chancellor, new challenges – same old Germany?

    Marcus Colla
    Faced with the collapse of the treasured old Atlanticist certainties, Merz’s priority will be to create unity in Europe.
  • 25 Feb 2025
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Did we learn anything from the war in Ukraine?

    Olena Guseinova
    With realpolitik back on the menu, there are serious implications for the Indo-Pacific.
  • 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.
  • 24 Feb 2025
    • Diplomacy

    Writing is communicating – inside government and out

    Philip Eliason
    Reflections on the quality of sending a message.
  • 24 Feb 2025
    • France
    • Pacific Islands
    • New Caledonia

    New Caledonia: A troubled France seeks agreement about the future

    Denise Fisher
    With local elections overdue against the backdrop of recent strife comes the latest pitch for peace.
  • 24 Feb 2025
    • China
    • China's Military
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australian Defence Force
    • China-Australia Relations

    How should Australia respond to Chinese warships’ live fire?

    Sam Roggeveen
    Provocations such as the PLA’s weapons drills are the moments when Australia must channel its unique geographical power.
  • 24 Feb 2025
    • Australia in the World

    Australia’s foreign policy in a hung parliament

    Hugh Piper
    The prospect of a minority government might lend some minor players a major role.
  • 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
    • Australia
    • Germany

    Status quo politics is fading and Germany’s elections mark a turning point

    Morgan James
    To dismiss the parallels of voter dissatisfaction in Australia outright would be a mistake.
  • 21 Feb 2025
    • Philippines

    A family feud in the Philippines

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    The 2025 midterm election is primed to be a proxy war between the Marcos and Duterte clans, and a prelude to the 2028 presidential race.
  • 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.
  • 20 Feb 2025
    • Climate change
    • Middle East

    Empowering Middle East’s youth is key to climate resilience

    Hajrah Nasir
    And that means overcoming financial and cultural barriers to participation.
  • 20 Feb 2025
    • Digital Disruption
    • Technology

    Quantum game changer

    Evan Freidin
    The profound implications of quantum computing for global power and security are upon us right now.
  • 19 Feb 2025
    • United States

    Wolf warrior diplomacy with MAGA characteristics

    Nick Bisley
    Provocation was the point – then, and now.
  • 19 Feb 2025
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Defence & Security
    • Intelligence and security
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Political lessons for Australia from the war in Ukraine

    Mick Ryan
    The concept of sovereign resilience must be implemented from the top of our nation’s political leadership.
  • 19 Feb 2025
    • North Korea

    Will North Korea support a US-Russia deal to end the war in Ukraine?

    Khang Vu
    It’s another party to the conflict, after all.
  • 19 Feb 2025
    • Singapore

    Singapore in a spin under Trump

    Rahman Yaacob
    Small states see much to lose when might is right.
  • 18 Feb 2025
    • Australia in the World

    It’s time for an Australian strategy of national resilience

    Matthew Sussex
    Donald Trump has delivered a reality check, but Australia is not without other friends.
  • 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.
  • 18 Feb 2025
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • New Zealand

    Why New Zealand should not join AUKUS Pillar II

    Oliver Sinclair
    In joining the Anglosphere, New Zealand jeopardises its point of difference in the Pacific.
  • 18 Feb 2025
    • Europe
    • Germany
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    The miseries of Germany’s navel-gazing

    Marcus Colla
    With an election on the horizon, the grim situation at home has transmuted foreign policy issues into domestic ones.
  • 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.
  • 17 Feb 2025
    • Asean
    • Indonesia
    • Climate change

    Indonesia’s climate retreat puts the region’s green future at risk

    Mutiara Indriani
    Jakarta’s ambivalence is a litmus test for ASEAN’s climate solidarity.
  • 17 Feb 2025
    • Japan

    Japan’s US-China headache

    Rintaro Nishimura
    Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba got off to a good start but must walk a tightrope between neighbours and friends.
  • 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.
  • 14 Feb 2025
    • Asean
    • Southeast Asia
    • Technology

    US restriction is chipping away ASEAN’s semiconductor future

    Doris Liew
    Southeast Asia needs to look at expanding and diversifying its semiconductor ecosystem beyond just manufacturing.
  • 14 Feb 2025
    • China
    • Pakistan

    Flight to nowhere: The curious New Gwadar International Airport

    Adnan Aamir
    A Chinese-funded white elephant relies on hope rather than reality.
  • 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.
  • 13 Feb 2025
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Migration
    • Multiculturalism

    Population decline: Future shock no more

    Richard Yetsenga
    Planning for the worst is more advisable than hoping for the best.
  • 12 Feb 2025
    • China
    • China's Military

    China, Taiwan, and the PLA’s 2027 milestones

    John Culver
    Be prepared to be surprised.
  • 12 Feb 2025
    • India
    • India's Economy

    The British, Bombay and businesses in Indian foreign policy

    Ved Shinde
    It’s helpful that India’s international economic aspirations neatly dovetail with the ambitions of business magnates.
  • 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.
  • 12 Feb 2025
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    A “National Interest Analysis” would strengthen PNG’s foreign policymaking

    Patrick Kaiku , Molly Kola
    Robust domestic procedures are crucial, not least to improve public understanding of government actions.
  • 11 Feb 2025
    • Syria

    The two faces of Syria’s interim government

    David Livingstone
    The regional responses will matter far more than Western influence.
  • 11 Feb 2025
    • Asean
    • Trade
    • Canada

    Canada should look to ASEAN

    Imran Shamsunahar
    Diversifying partners offers a path to autonomy.
  • 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.
  • 11 Feb 2025
    • Europe

    Hungary’s Viktor Orbán faces challenge to his illiberal democracy

    Catherine Wilson
    A fresh leader has remade the opposition and hopes to galvanise local discontent.
  • 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.
  • 10 Feb 2025
    • Laos
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Trade

    Sharing Australia’s coffee culture with Southeast Asia

    Shaun Cameron
    And getting far more than change in return.
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