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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In October 2024, Indonesia entered a new era under President Prabowo Subianto, whose assertive diplomacy style, military modernisation and defence-first agenda marked a departure from Joko Widodo’s ...

India’s Minister for Defence Shri Rajnath Singh made his first official visit to Australia last week – also marking a first visit by an Indian defence minister to the country in 13 years. The ...

India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh lands in Australia on Thursday for what both governments are billing as a landmark two-day visit. Indian media has flagged three defence agreements will be ...

Pakistan has quietly pitched a bold idea to Washington to build a new deep-sea port at Pasni, on the Arabian Sea, just over 100 kilometres from the China-funded port at Gwadar and about half as far ...

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 ...

It’s a great honour to have been invited to deliver the annual Lowy Lecture. The Lowy Institute has been an important part of our national discourse for 20 years. It is a great gift to Australia from ...

Vietnam has transformed itself at a rapid clip from one of the poorest countries in the world in the late 1980s to a lower middle-income country. More recently, it has been the most obvious ...