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  • 10 Feb 2023
    • Syria
    • Türkiye

    The grim toll of Türkiye’s earthquake will also shift regional politics

    William Gourlay
    The international outpouring of support has gone beyond friends but to unexpected quarters, too.
  • 10 Feb 2023
    • China
    • India
    • Maldives

    The Maldives: geopolitics of Chinese tourism

    John Kachtik
    With a presidential election set for September, Maldivian candidates need to balance the economy and Beijing.
  • 9 Feb 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Migration
    • Transnational Challenges

    Australia and Indonesia can lead a response to refugee crisis in the region

    Andrew Hudson
    Shared information will help with rescue efforts and to pursue the leaders in people smuggling outfits.
  • 9 Feb 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    Richard Woolcott: Navigating great change

    William Fisher
    Contacts and controversy, remembering a peerless diplomat’s life in the thick of it.
  • 9 Feb 2023
    • Asia
    • Asean
    • China
    • India
    • Laos
    • North Korea
    • Sri Lanka
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam
    • Defence & Security
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • United Nations

    With caution and tact: How Asian countries voted on Ukraine at the UN 

    Stéphanie Fillion
    A resolution forces nations to show their hand. After Russia’s invasion, consistency has not been to everyone’s liking.
  • 8 Feb 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Trade

    What the China thaw means for Australia’s trade diversification agenda

    Leigh Howard
    While it’s easy to say never again allow one market to dominate, the promise of premium prices will be hard to ignore.
  • 8 Feb 2023
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • IMF

    China’s growth prospects after zero-Covid

    Roland Rajah , Robert Walker
    A strong initial rebound perhaps but held back by major downward pressures.
  • 7 Feb 2023
    • Asia
    • Sex and Gender

    Valuing Asia’s women leaders

    Ramona Vijeyarasa
    Telling the Asian stories remind us that these are not “Australian”, or “Asian” or “American” experiences – but global.
  • 6 Feb 2023
    • Asia
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • United States

    The big picture: five lessons for five years of the Asia Power Index

    Hervé Lemahieu
    Superpower rivalry matters – but don’t be blinded to the role of smaller players in a region of many contests.
  • 6 Feb 2023
    • China
    • International Relations
    • United States

    Chinese grey zone spy balloons over the American heartland

    Peter Layton
    High-flying espionage went out of fashion in the 1960s, but the most recent sky crisis has reignited tensions.
  • 6 Feb 2023
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • Defence & Security

    A Chinese invasion of Taiwan isn’t inevitable

    Daniel R. DePetris
    The logistics pose a momentous challenge. And more so, Xi Jinping knows a war will entail enormous costs.
  • 3 Feb 2023
    • Central Asia
    • Caucasus
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Russia, Ukraine and the wars of the Soviet succession

    Ian Hill
    Putin’s war is part of the untidy and slow-motion disintegration of the Soviet Union.
  • 3 Feb 2023
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • South China Sea
    • Southeast Asia
    • Energy
    • Resource security

    Global energy scarcity and the South China Sea

    Suryaputra Wijaksana
    A new source of natural gas within the controversial “nine-dash line” should revive questions about sharing access.
  • 2 Feb 2023
    • China
    • Vietnam
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • IMF
    • Trade

    Economic diplomacy: Diversification is hard to do

    Greg Earl
    Treasurer Jim Chalmers should rise above outdated jibes at the IMF to justify his aims for a new values-based economy.
  • 2 Feb 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • France

    France-Australia: Salving the wounds of AUKUS

    Eglantine Staunton
    After the crisis over the subs deal, both countries stand to benefit from a normalisation of ties.
  • 2 Feb 2023
    • New Zealand
    • United States
    • Sex and Gender

    Women leaders: not so poles apart

    Erin Hurley
    In seemingly different settings, Jacinda Ardern and Nancy Pelosi confronted much the same challenges.
  • 1 Feb 2023
    • Myanmar
    • Australia
    • Human rights

    Australia’s Myanmar sanctions: now for the real decisions

    Susannah Patton
    Two years after the coup, there are still many reasons why Canberra is stepping cautiously with its punitive measures.
  • 1 Feb 2023
    • Australia
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • France

    Marles torpedoes French subs, but is yet to explain nuclear advantage

    Sam Roggeveen
    For such a high-stakes and expensive enterprise the public deserves to know not just what boats we’re getting, but why.
  • 1 Feb 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Taiwan

    Indonesia gets the ball rolling on domestic worker rights

    Ratih Kabinawa , Pamungkas A. Dewanto
    Jakarta’s call to legislate its informal workforce should be a model for all countries that receive migrant workers.
  • 31 Jan 2023
    • Europe
    • European Union

    Europe: Crossing the East-West divide

    Roderick Parkes
    A new alignment challenges France and Germany as drivers of European politics – offering Britain a chance for influence.
  • 31 Jan 2023
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Defence & Security

    Australia’s return to must-win wars

    Peter Layton
    The future is not the past. Australia needs to reset its strategic thinking and plan to win the wars it fights.
  • 30 Jan 2023
    • Papua New Guinea

    For PNG, Albanese’s visit was about more than just security

    Maholopa Laveil
    Dealing with Australia and keeping a door open to China gives James Marape the chance to foster the local economy.
  • 30 Jan 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Pacific Islands

    Getting it together: Pacific engagement still lacks coordination

    Meg Keen
    Showing collective action across countries and sectors is essential to Pacific development and winning friends.
  • 27 Jan 2023
    • Central Asia
    • Caucasus
    • Russia
    • Türkiye

    How Russia loses allies amid the war in Ukraine

    Nikola Mikovic
    Setbacks in the Kremlin’s campaign are causing regional supporters to think twice about the Eurasian military alliance.
  • 26 Jan 2023
    • Bangladesh
    • United States

    Sanctions help bring accountability in Bangladesh

    Mubashar Hasan
    Extrajudicial killings and disappearances have dropped dramatically, with the government aware the world is watching.
  • 25 Jan 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative
    • Development Assistance
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands

    Chinese aid to the Pacific: decreasing, but not disappearing

    Alexandre Dayant , Meg Keen , Roland Rajah
    With fewer Chinese finances available and less demand from Pacific countries, geopolitical competition is opening up.
  • 24 Jan 2023
    • Asean
    • Japan
    • Sustainability

    Japan and ASEAN: 50 years of maritime strategy

    Thư Nguyễn Hoàng Anh
    Collaboration on ending illegal fishing and piracy in the region is important. But there are also bigger fish to fry.
  • 24 Jan 2023
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Asia Pacific Regional Relationships
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australian Diplomacy

    Reality-checking the democracy agenda

    Eduard Lazarus
    Indonesia presents valuable lessons in Australia’s support for democracy in the Asia-Pacific.
  • 23 Jan 2023
    • Diplomacy

    With travel back, summit diplomacy is revamped

    Mercedes Page
    The foreign policy calendar for 2023 is stacked for a big year of geopolitics.
  • 23 Jan 2023
    • China
    • Chinese Trade
    • Australia
    • Australia's Trade
    • Trade
    • WTO

    How will China’s punitive trade restrictions against Australia end?

    Justin Brown
    Good vibes could turn into a solution – but if China demands a quid pro quo, reaching agreement will be complex.
  • 20 Jan 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Review

    How an Australian freed an unfinished nation’s history

    Duncan Graham
    The fascinating story of how Indonesia came to better know itself through a time of repressive regimes.
  • 20 Jan 2023
    • Australia in the World
    • Diplomacy
    • Foreign Policy

    An enduring formula for Australian foreign policy

    Melissa Conley Tyler
    Relationships, forums and neighbours are still a winning combination for Canberra on the global stage.
  • 19 Jan 2023
    • New Zealand

    Jacinda Ardern’s foreign policy legacy

    Robert Ayson
    Major shocks set an agenda and catapulted New Zealand’s youngest ever Prime Minister to international attention.
  • 19 Jan 2023
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific
    • Solomon Islands

    Weaving webs of statecraft in the Pacific Islands

    Joanne Wallis , Henrietta McNeill , Alan C. Tidwell , Czeslaw Tubilewicz
    Gaining influence in the region is about tools and techniques, not just the actors.
  • 19 Jan 2023
    • Climate change
    • International law
    • Pacific Islands

    The acid test: legal moves to force action on climate change

    Donald R Rothwell
    Small island states are now adopting a determined strategy of “lawfare” to bring attention to environmental threats.
  • 18 Jan 2023
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Technology
    • Sex and Gender

    Link start-ups ecosystems to build influence in Southeast Asia

    Robert Law
    Australia should launch a major initiative to support investment with new business prospects in the region.
  • 18 Jan 2023
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • Nuclear Weapons

    “If the problem becomes more serious”: South Korea talks going nuclear

    Gabriela Bernal
    The high stakes on Korean Peninsula have quickly become even more acute in 2023.
  • 17 Jan 2023
    • Fiji

    Fiji’s new politics

    Shailendra Bahadur Singh
    After a first smooth change of power, forging consensus in a nation renowned for ethnic tension poses a continued test.
  • 17 Jan 2023
    • Australia
    • Multiculturalism

    Australia should have more public holidays – but make them civic and secular

    Hugh Piper
    Allowing people to choose their own days of significance would better reflect our modern national identity.
  • 16 Jan 2023
    • Yemen
    • Sex and Gender

    A seat at the negotiating table: How women are building peace in Yemen

    Jena Jaensch
    Peace is not just the absence of conflict but dismantling the structures that contribute to gender-based violence.
  • 16 Jan 2023
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Technology
    • United States

    Towards meaningful Quad cooperation on intelligence

    Arzan Tarapore
    Collaborative AI capabilities would allow the partners to deepen military cooperation, should leaders choose that step.
  • 13 Jan 2023
    • Papua New Guinea

    PNG needs a census, not more population estimates

    Maholopa Laveil
    Knowing a true number of residents is crucial to set development goals – for local government and foreign partners.
  • 13 Jan 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Australian immigration
    • Migration

    Undue suspicion of Chinese Australian scientists slows progress

    Yun Jiang
    Clear guidance is needed how national security is assessed in research and what are the boundaries of collaboration.
  • 12 Jan 2023
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • International law
    • War Crimes

    The hard road to justice for Russian war crimes

    Shaun Cameron
    Prosecution of war crimes in Ukraine are crucial to maintain international law and the peace and security it promotes.
  • 12 Jan 2023
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Multiculturalism

    Our public holidays should reflect Australia’s multicultural make-up

    Osmond Chiu
    Many countries in the region already have more public holidays to recognise diverse cultural and religious populations.
  • 11 Jan 2023
    • Europe's Economy
    • European Union
    • Trade
    • Climate change

    Crossing the carbon border

    Stephen Minas
    International trade is skewed in favour of exporters who pay less for carbon emissions. The EU wants to change that.
  • 10 Jan 2023
    • North Korea

    The Korean Peninsula: Why 2023 will not be like 2017

    Khang Vu
    “Fire and fury” had more to do with the temperament of the White House, while Pyongyang provokes with purpose.
  • 10 Jan 2023
    • China
    • Review

    Avenging the century of humiliation, one artefact at a time

    Mercedes Page
    The looting of Beijing’s “Garden of Eternal Brightness” by European armies in 1860 lingers in tales of the diaspora.
  • 9 Jan 2023
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia in the Asian Century

    Asian Century White Paper: a decade on

    Melissa Conley Tyler
    The language may have changed, but the message stays the same.
  • 6 Jan 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Terrorism

    Twenty years after Bali

    Sidney Jones
    Indonesia’s police, military and prisons were altered by the 2002 attack. Democratic backsliding may signal an undoing.
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