9 Aug 2024
Is Australia too late to claim its green economy share?
Playing a role in Southeast Asia’s green energy transition is an opportunity Australia must not let pass.
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9 Aug 2024
Without money, the global biodiversity target is just an empty promise
Beyond social responsibility, funding conservation in developing nations is critical to the global economy. -
8 Aug 2024
Bangladesh: The economist turned saviour
Mohammad Yunus paid a hard price for his success after falling out with power. He now faces the most extraordinary test. -
8 Aug 2024
Economic diplomacy: Banking on the Pacific
Rebuilding regional banking is unlikely to pay dividends without an underlying business revival. -
8 Aug 2024
Mission possible: Making the most of Australia-India cooperation on critical minerals
The Indian government has set itself a new ambition to meet green transition needs – and Australia is a perfect partner. -
8 Aug 2024
A reckoning with empire
Two very different volumes on the legacies of imperialism expose the parallax of coloniser and colonised. -
7 Aug 2024
Looking back at the Biden administration’s Pacific strategy
Big promises haven’t always been backed up by delivery. But the main question is about enduring attention. -
7 Aug 2024
China’s high-stakes diplomacy: Managing Middle Eastern turmoil
Will Beijing exert more effort to calm the region and protect its economic interests and credibility? -
7 Aug 2024
The dehumanisation danger
Language matters and the protections of international law are crucial for persons deprived of liberty. -
6 Aug 2024
Bangladesh’s new military-led government has a tough job ahead
The Army has little appetite to stay in power. But it will be a messy and drawn-out job to restore civilian rule. -
6 Aug 2024
A respite for the Sierra Madre, but Philippines-China tensions remain
A provisional understanding is just that. Much now depends on China’s behaviour and its record is not encouraging. -
6 Aug 2024
Australian CEOs face a wave of geopolitical risks
The fences of trade restrictions are growing higher and the yards of national industry policies larger. -
5 Aug 2024
What is China’s role in achieving the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals?
It is time to think more seriously about the increasing relationship between Chinese and dominant international development models. -
5 Aug 2024
Thinking the “unthinkable” again?
Security motivations alone rarely explain decisions to “go nuclear”. Australia’s history on the question is complex. -
5 Aug 2024
Marcos vs Duterte: Domestic politics meets grand strategy
Doubts linger regarding the longevity of Manila’s forward-leaning stance on regional security. -
2 Aug 2024
Shots around the world: The influence of assassins on international affairs
Leaders are always going to be hard to protect, especially if demonstrating a common touch means touching commoners. -
2 Aug 2024
What Australia can learn from Ukraine's long-range strike weapons
Ukraine now has multiple options for strike operations at an affordable cost. This is exactly what the Australian Defence Force needs. -
2 Aug 2024
Will Malaysia build ASEAN with BRICS?
As the next chair of the Southeast Asian grouping, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will likely share the concerns of his new BRICS partners. -
1 Aug 2024
Nationalism vs globalism: Making the case for Indonesian dual citizenship
A lack of rights for Indonesians living and working abroad means they cannot truly be citizens of the world. -
1 Aug 2024
The Yazidi still wait for justice
Australia also has obligations when its citizens are accused of the worst of all crimes. -
1 Aug 2024
Smuggling budgies? Australia’s fight against wildlife trafficking
Masters of soft diplomacy and flag-bearers for Aussie tourism, our native animals need all the protection they can get. -
31 Jul 2024
Long arm of the law: China’s extraterritorial reach
Political as much as legal considerations dictate the way Beijing exercises its laws – from Hong Kong to beyond. -
31 Jul 2024
Charging up: Europe’s bid for renewable energy independence
A new deal with Serbia for one of the world's largest lithium mines is about breaking China’s stranglehold on the market. -
31 Jul 2024
Australia’s big tech defence cloud: Too big to fail?
Trusting the country’s digital defence capabilities to one company is a potential threat to national security. -
30 Jul 2024
Byte-sized diplomacy: Lessons from when the computer says no
The Blue Screen of Death outage this month underscores the need for a multilateral fix to vulnerable digital systems – and maybe more. -
30 Jul 2024
Gender equality, the Pacific way
“Using culture to change culture” is how to make real progress in addressing a longstanding regional challenge. -
30 Jul 2024
Made in the USA: America’s gambit to reclaim industrial primacy
Dominance in next-generation industry relies on people and partnerships to short-circuit China’s leading edge. -
29 Jul 2024
Critical minerals, critical decisions
A new UN panel can help ensure the social and environmental risks of the energy transition are better understood. -
29 Jul 2024
The tricky delivery of aid and access in conflicts and crises
Gaza is only the latest example of the logistical challenges in providing humanitarian relief. -
29 Jul 2024
The unheard potential of moderate voices in New Caledonia’s crisis
Hope for a “common destiny” is not yet lost despite the violent unrest and hardening views. -
26 Jul 2024
Martin Indyk, peacemaker
A scholar, a statesman, and a relentless policy entrepreneur. Above all, he was committed to a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. -
26 Jul 2024
Remembering Martin Indyk, an American diplomat with Australian sensibilities
“Few Australians have had such a large impact on the world, and for good”, said Lowy Institute Chairman Sir Frank Lowy. -
26 Jul 2024
Bring women to the table to talk ocean sustainability
The upcoming G20 summit in Brazil must focus on what has so far remained neglected – women’s experience of ocean challenges. -
26 Jul 2024
Deadpool & Wolverine can rescue America from Trump
A superhero film to save a country in danger. -
26 Jul 2024
Why Taiwan should embrace multiculturalism
With a birth rate below replacement level, Taipei has many reasons to boost its workforce from Southeast Asia. -
25 Jul 2024
Economic diplomacy: Looking beyond a 30-year anomaly
Divining economic statecraft is animating international relations roundtables but unnerving the money managers. -
25 Jul 2024
Child marriage in Southeast Asia: When a harmful practice becomes an international crime
ASEAN can lead the way in tackling a practice that regularly results in the trafficking of persons. -
25 Jul 2024
Could BIMSTEC be the answer to the Myanmar question?
With a new charter and fresh ambition, a little-known regional organisation has as big summit coming up in September. -
24 Jul 2024
Don’t expect Trump 2.0 to be so tough on China
Past behaviour is the best guide to future conduct. -
24 Jul 2024
Rain in the Seine would be an Olympic-sized pain
But the effort to clean up the famous waterway in Paris could hold international lessons. -
24 Jul 2024
Shakespeare as life coach
Two new books examine how the Bard’s wit and wisdom can serve as guides for modern day policy and prophecy. -
24 Jul 2024
Good vibes only: Can Starmer make the European Political Community work?
Europe’s newest strategic forum has the chance to rally regional leaders around common defence and security challenges. -
23 Jul 2024
America’s election: It’s not foreign policy, stupid
For all the noise of the campaign, the next few months will be a quiet time in America’s approach to international affairs. -
23 Jul 2024
The curious international silence about Iran’s new reformist president
A surprise victory in elections hasn’t raised international hopes of change, even if that was the message Iranian people intended to send at the ballot box. -
23 Jul 2024
ASEAN centrality stands in the way of an Indonesia-Australia alliance
While Jakarta’s non-alignment approach makes a pact unlikely any time soon, common strategic objectives can still be achieved. -
22 Jul 2024
Bye Biden
The rollercoaster quality of politics and political coverage seems to ensure the head-jerks will continue. -
22 Jul 2024
A weaker Europe on China – at the worst time
European governments increasingly wary of the popular turn against incumbents will be more susceptible to economic inducements and pressure from Beijing. -
22 Jul 2024
Japan, South Korea and United States: Let’s hope for a robust, lasting pact
The new framework for security cooperation will have important consequences for the region – if it survives domestic politics among the partners. -
22 Jul 2024
The deadly consequences of misclassifying foreign fighters in Ukraine
Russia calls them mercenaries to deny international legal protections. Accountability is essential. -
19 Jul 2024
Does democracy still matter in the ‘New Cold War’ between the US and China?
Contradictions between the two models of governance make coexistence among superpowers difficult.