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  • 13 Oct 2025
    • China
    • Japan
    • South Korea
    • Russia
    • United States

    Why the US–Japan–South Korea trilateral agreement must evolve

    Ju Hyung Kim
    History shows us that an adaptive coalition built on trust and interoperability can trump formal alliances.
  • 13 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Intelligence and security
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • United Nations

    Australia’s role in bringing international criminals to justice

    Jennifer Keene-McCann , Aruni Jayakody
    Stepping up efforts to investigate and prosecute perpetrators on Australian soil will build credibility at home and abroad.
  • 13 Oct 2025
    • Aid & Development
    • Energy
    • G20
    • Poverty
    • Climate change

    COP30: Is the bioeconomy the answer to equitable prosperity?

    Mohd. Yunus
    The Brazil meeting will need to confront old tropes of competition and control over the world’s natural resources.
  • 10 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Intelligence and security
    • Human rights

    Closing the gaps in Australia’s approach to transnational repression

    Grady Vaughan , Andrew Chubb
    Diaspora communities say a security-focused response to foreign intimidation misses their basic rights concerns.
  • 10 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Terrorism
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • International law
    • Syria

    Australia’s quiet returnees from Syria are in fact a loud warning

    Khalid Koser , Lilla Schumicky-Logan
    Leaving detainees stranded in Syria doesn’t reduce risk – it can export the very insecurity governments hope to prevent.
  • 10 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Trade
    • Climate change
    • Migration

    The Liberal Party’s coming foreign policy split

    Hugh Piper
    Immigration, climate, trade and China are fracturing the conservative side of politics into rival camps with competing worldviews.
  • 10 Oct 2025
    • India

    Why Ladakh refuses to Leh low

    Abhijnan Rej
    A recent protest demonstrates persistent contradictions in a strategically vital region.
  • 9 Oct 2025
    • Global Economy
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability

    Sustainability matters when economic shocks hit

    Adam Arian
    New global evidence shows responsible business is risk insurance.
  • 9 Oct 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Japan
    • Defence & Security

    Takaichi and Prabowo can redefine the Japan-Indonesia relationship

    Ayu Rachman
    Tokyo’s conservative turn meets Jakarta’s military modernisation, transforming a development partnership into dual-track ties.
  • 9 Oct 2025
    • India
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Quad

    India’s Rajnath Singh in Canberra: Turning warm words into a shared maritime operating model

    Premesha Saha
    Real-time information sharing and coordinated patrols would deliver tangible benefits to the Indo-Pacific, not just rhetoric.
  • 9 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    PNG should ratify the Pukpuk Treaty and move beyond a self-limiting mantra of “friends to all”

    Oliver Nobetau
    “The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.” Proverbs 12:26
  • 8 Oct 2025
    • Asia
    • Indonesia
    • Europe
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • WTO

    Europe notches an early win in Indonesian free trade deal

    Henry Storey
    EU trade with Southeast Asia has been undercooked, but a recent agreement augurs well for others in the pipeline.
  • 8 Oct 2025
    • North Korea
    • Vietnam

    Vietnam is courting North Korea – and still winning Western friends

    Khang Vu
    Hanoi’s multilateral approach lets it engage both Pyongyang and Washington, punching above its weight diplomatically.
  • 8 Oct 2025
    • China
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • United States

    Pakistan’s Pasni port pitch to Washington can reshape regional rivalries with China and India

    Saima Afzal
    Minerals over missiles – at least, that’s the message Islamabad is sending.
  • 8 Oct 2025
    • Review

    In defence of darkness

    Marcus Colla
    Exploring a tradition built on fatalism rather than historical fact.
  • 7 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    The Pukpuk Treaty is about keeping China at bay, not military strength

    Sam Roggeveen
    The pact with PNG aims to preserve Australia’s regional standing by making Chinese military access harder.
  • 7 Oct 2025
    • Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament
    • Europe
    • International law

    The return of landmines marks a darker era for Europe – and the world

    Grant Wyeth
    Countries withdrawing from the ban treaty shows how Russian hostility is forcing choices that undermine global norms.
  • 7 Oct 2025
    • Global Issues

    What the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize reveals about our vision of peace

    Shamsa Ishfaq
    Whether Trump or a Baloch activist, views of contenders show symbolic recognition often outlasts achievement.
  • 7 Oct 2025
    • Taiwan

    Taiwan’s main threat isn’t military – it’s media speculation

    Julien Oeuillet
    Every headline becomes a crisis, every policy shift becomes abandonment. Taiwan deserves reporting that resists speculation.
  • 6 Oct 2025
    • China
    • North Korea
    • Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament
    • Nuclear Weapons

    The great omission: A clarifying statement on North Korea’s nukes

    Seong-Hyon Lee
    A quiet but seismic shift in Beijing’s language reveals a new reality: China now treats a nuclear North Korea as a practical reality.
  • 6 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Maritime Security
    • Trade
    • Middle East

    How Australia can navigate long-term Red Sea shipping disruptions

    Hamed Zakikhani
    Route volatility is squeezing grain exports and fertiliser imports, and there are no calm waters on the horizon.
  • 6 Oct 2025
    • Japan

    Can Japan’s first female PM escape the revolving door?

    Tan Ming Hui
    Sanae Takaichi must revive Japan’s economy, restore LDP credibility, and navigate great power tensions – all at once.
  • 6 Oct 2025
    • Indonesia

    Prabowo’s policies won’t fix Indonesia’s problems

    Hilman Palaon
    Heavy spending and top-down control are unlikely to rescue Indonesia from corruption, inequality and investor doubt.
  • 3 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Migration

    When democracies override their own courts: Australia’s dangerous precedent

    Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres
    Parliamentary overrides in migration law offer authoritarian regimes a playbook for eroding judicial independence.
  • 3 Oct 2025
    • Asia
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Taiwan
    • Trade
    • United States

    America’s EV plan needs Southeast Asia more than it admits

    Apoorba Banerjee
    Unless the US wants to pay more and wait longer, it should secure trusted capacity from non-Chinese supply chains.
  • 3 Oct 2025
    • Indonesia

    Indonesia’s free meal ambition: When policy becomes a recipe for risk

    Ronny P Sasmita
    Grand promises about feeding children have fallen foul of rushed implementation and ignoring lessons from abroad.
  • 3 Oct 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Climate change
    • United Nations

    Indonesia’s green industrial policy ahead of COP30

    Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara , Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat
    Jakarta is playing a balancing act between business wins and climate objectives. Can it work?
  • 2 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Tonga

    Delays on the Pukpuk treaty with PNG were Australian missteps, not failures

    Blake Johnson
    The Papua New Guinea agreement represents a landmark not just for its signatories but the region as a whole.
  • 2 Oct 2025
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    When Trump says Ukraine can win back all territory taken by Russia, he’s not wrong

    David Kirichenko
    Relentless strikes on Russian infrastructure are raising the costs of war beyond what the Kremlin can sustain.
  • 2 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Climate change
    • International law
    • Pacific Islands

    Applying a national security lens to the International Court’s climate change opinion

    Danielle Ireland-Piper
    When islands sink, do nations disappear? The Court says no.
  • 2 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Intelligence and security
    • Technology

    Australia’s AI choice: Standards setter or technology taker?

    Ian Gribble
    If Australia adopts artificial intelligence built to foreign specifications, we tacitly accept an invisible leash.
  • 1 Oct 2025
    • Afghanistan
    • Human rights
    • Technology

    When the Taliban switches off the internet, Afghanistan disappears

    Humayoon Babur
    Cutting Afghanistan off from the world shows how the Taliban prioritises control over the welfare of millions already suffering.
  • 1 Oct 2025
    • China
    • Philippines
    • Taiwan
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • United States

    Manila’s lonely island at the centre of Taiwan contingency planning

    Frances Mangosing
    At the Philippines’ northernmost point, troops guard waters that could determine Taiwan’s fate.
  • 1 Oct 2025
    • Asia
    • Asean
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Intelligence and security

    Australian conflict prevention – from statements to strategy?

    William Leben , Martina Zapf
    Australian tunnel vision on potential China–US conflict may blind us to pressing risks closer to home.
  • 1 Oct 2025
    • Asia
    • China
    • Technology
    • United States

    How Trump’s $14 billion TikTok tug-of-war affects Asia

    Akhmad Hanan
    With Western nations cracking down on the wildly popular app, does Beijing have its sights set on the developing markets?
  • 30 Sep 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Global Economy
    • Technology

    Indonesia’s SupTech experiment offers lessons for emerging markets

    Hanif Santoso
    With consumer credit booming, AI-driven oversight could help safeguard the economy.
  • 30 Sep 2025
    • Pakistan
    • Saudi Arabia

    Pakistan’s Saudi pact shifts South Asia’s security calculus

    Muhammad Faisal
    A defence agreement between Islamabad and Riyadh looms as a diplomatic headache for New Delhi.
  • 30 Sep 2025
    • Asia
    • Asean
    • Defence & Security
    • Ukraine
    • Technology

    Time for an ASEAN agreement on lethal AI

    Ngô Di Lân
    The use of autonomous weapons in the region’s flashpoints could narrow the window for human intervention to seconds.
  • 30 Sep 2025
    • Philippines
    • Defence & Security

    Philippines: Marcos in the middle

    Richard Javad Heydarian
    While regularly seen as “pro-American”, the Marcos Jr administration has also embraced a more multipolar vision of the world that goes beyond the dictates of any superpower.
  • 29 Sep 2025
    • Vietnam

    National champions – Vietnam’s solution to the middle-income trap

    Henry Storey
    The international economic environment could hardly be less propitious.
  • 29 Sep 2025
    • Europe
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Southeast Asia can play a role in a safer nuclear future

    Izzah Ibrahim
    Non-nuclear states could provide the much needed ballast to the risk of conventional confrontations and miscalculations.
  • 29 Sep 2025
    • Afghanistan
    • China
    • Pakistan
    • Russia
    • United States

    Afghanistan must tread a narrow path to stability

    Ishaal Zehra
    Denial and extremism have plagued the Taliban’s return. Will they let history repeat itself or can they reform?
  • 29 Sep 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Sustainability

    The good oil? Helping palm plantations contribute to global biodiversity targets

    Mohd. Yunus
    Indonesia and Malaysia control 80% of global palm oil supply – their conservation choices will determine if the industry can rehabilitate itself.
  • 26 Sep 2025
    • Europe
    • European Union
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Why Moldova’s election results matter for Europe’s war with Russia

    Catherine Wilson
    Vladimir Putin has his eyes on a tiny landlocked country that could prove critical in his campaign against Ukraine.
  • 26 Sep 2025
    • Asean
    • Bangladesh
    • Hong Kong
    • Indonesia
    • Myanmar
    • Nepal
    • Thailand

    The youth are revolting as Asia's gerontocracy is showing its age

    Erika Isabel Bulan Yague , Lukas Nagel , Helen Berents
    Across the region, leaders twice the median age of their populations face sustained resistance from a new generation.
  • 26 Sep 2025
    • Global Economy
    • G20
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Global Issues
    • Climate change
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Space exploration
    • United Nations

    Why we need international institutions…

    Jenny Gordon
    …and how to rebuild them in an era of great power competition.
  • 26 Sep 2025
    • Debt
    • Energy
    • G20
    • Poverty
    • Trade
    • Africa

    Show or substance? The African Union’s G20 test

    Isel Ras , Jana de Kluiver
    Under this year’s South African presidency of the global forum, it’s more important than ever for the Union to speak as one.
  • 25 Sep 2025
    • Singapore
    • Technology
    • United Arab Emirates

    Singapore and Dubai as smart city case studies

    Achref Chibani
    Two cities, two very different tacks on embedding digital technology into everyday lives.
  • 25 Sep 2025
    • Defence & Security
    • Europe
    • European Union
    • Technology

    Airspace chaos: European eyes on the skies

    Lisa Martin
    Copenhagen and Oslo drone sightings, Russian airspace violations and European airport cyber attacks will loom large over a meeting of EU leaders in the Danish capital next week.
  • 25 Sep 2025
    • Afghanistan
    • United States

    What chance does Trump have of negotiating a Bagram airbase deal with the Taliban?

    Shadi Khan Saif
    Next to none.
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