Linking decarbonisation with trade policy could offer an alternative to rising protectionism. World leaders must consider what a positive, alternative vision of international trade could entail (Getty ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AUDIO Sam Roggeveen twitter Contact Areas of expertise: Australian foreign and defence policy; China’s military forces; US defence and foreign policy; drones and other military technology; trends in ...

The claim that the twenty-first century will be Asian, just as the twentieth century was American, is often made but seldom examined. Yet this axiom is not just simplistic, it could also encourage 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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