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 ...

For the past decade, the annual UN General Assembly has brought the world together in a rare show of unity to promote the ambitious but elusive Sustainable Development Goals. Last month, however, the ...

A few days ago, I crossed one of Europe’s strangest borders – the Saatse Boot, a narrow slice of Russian territory that intrudes into southeastern Estonia. Vehicles may pass through the Boot along a 1 ...

Indonesia’s decision to renew diplomatic engagement with North Korea this month is more than a nostalgic gesture recalling the Sukarno–Kim Il-sung era. Foreign Minister Sugiono’s visit to Pyongyang on ...

One of the sharpest observers of Asian geopolitics has written his first book: Bilahari Kausikan’s The Myth of the Asian Century has just been released by Penguin Random House Australia and is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hervé Lemahieu discusses the continuing threat of nuclear weapons, global efforts at arms control and Australia's interactions with the global non-proliferation regime around its proposed acquisition ...

Grace Stanhope is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute’s Indo-Pacific Development Centre working on the Southeast Asia Aid Map, a tool that tracks and analyses foreign aid and development ...

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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 ...