Pressing challenges like climate change require a coordinated, multilateral response. So too does the trend of economic nationalism spreading around the world. A multilateral green trade pact focused ...

Australia should articulate and pursue a disciplined Taiwan strategy that uses the flexibility of its one-China policy to increase engagement with Taipei in service of Australian economic and security ...

The Pacific Islands received more than $40 billion in ODF between 2008 and 2021, with development assistance playing a larger role in the Pacific than any other part of the world. Despite record ODF ...

It’s a great honour to have been invited to deliver the annual Lowy Lecture. The Lowy Institute has been an important part of our national discourse for 20 years. It is a great gift to Australia from ...

Realists tend not to be born apologists. So, it is perhaps telling that Patrick Porter’s punchy, “bite-sized defence of realism”, How to Survive a Hostile World, is strewn with qualifications and ...

Pakistan has quietly pitched a bold idea to Washington to build a new deep-sea port at Pasni, on the Arabian Sea, just over 100 kilometres from the China-funded port at Gwadar and about half as far ...

India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh lands in Australia on Thursday for what both governments are billing as a landmark two-day visit. Indian media has flagged three defence agreements will be ...

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman is Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King's College London. He was Professor of War Studies from 1982 to 2014 and Vice-Principal from 2003 to 2013. Before joining King ...

Mick Ryan is a Senior Fellow for Military Studies in the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program. Mick spent 35 years in the Australian Army and had the honour of commanding soldiers at ...

As a nation, Indonesia has a propensity for changing its capital. Over the past three centuries, there has been quite an eventful journey from Batavia (Jakarta), Bandung, and Yogyakarta to Bukittinggi ...

Nauru’s decision to switch diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China has nothing to do with Australia. It reflects the intense geopolitical competition in the Pacific and the sustained, but not ...

Environmental damage and gendered violence are flashpoints on the tiny island dominated by US troops. Japanese governments have allowed US bases in Okinawa in exchange for a US commitment to defend ...