Dmitri Alperovitch is the author of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century. In this Lowy Institute Conversation, he talks with Sam Roggeveen about China’s ...

Afghanistan for years, focusing on a wide range of topics, including politics, conflict, human rights, and environmental issues. He holds a Master’s degree in International Development from Yeungnam ...

The Taliban has long held international energy ambitions. Plans to build a $10 billion gas pipeline connecting Turkmenistan, ...

Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob is a Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. His research interests include Southeast Asia’s defence and security issues and the region’s relations ...

The persistent gap between male and female labour market participation is a trend common to all regions of the world. Across the Indo-Pacific region, research shows that women are not benefiting from ...

Sunaina Kumar is a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in Delhi and focuses on gender and development. She is currently a Maitri Fellow at the Institute for Global Development, ...

Recent news of pop star Taylor Swift’s endorsement of US presidential candidate Kamala Harris stirred up the internet – the Instagram post in which she made the announcement garnered more than eight ...

What does it mean to truly listen? In the context of global fracturing, existing and portending conflict, and a realignment of regional power, there has been growing recognition among Western leaders ...

Klaus Kotzé is an Honorary Research Affiliate at the Centre for Rhetoric Studies, University of Cape Town. He has completed his PhD (BRICS: Strategies of Persuasion) and an ensuing post doctorate at ...

New York City is gearing up for the next United Nations General Assembly, but the gathered diplomats wandering the halls of UN headquarters ahead of the leaders arriving next week are showing little ...

Economic statecraft refers to a state’s use of economic policy instruments to achieve foreign policy objectives. Australia uses various tools of economic statecraft – including development assistance, ...