The 11th principle of war is personality, muses Brigadier Dean Thompson as we talk at an airbase in the Philippines. Relationships matter. Australia’s relationship with the Philippines has reached a ...

Papua New Guinea and Australia didn’t sign a long anticipated Mutual Defence Treaty today. Instead, the prime ministers from both countries issued a last-minute communique, stating that the text had ...

While global attention remains fixed on conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, a new danger zone is emerging in an unlikely location: the Caribbean. This typically peaceful region has become the ...

As Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was about to call a national election on 28 March, a Chinese state-owned marine research vessel Tan Suo Yi Hao was quietly transiting Bass Strait.

Susannah Patton is Deputy Research Director at the Lowy Institute. She is also the Director of the Institute’s Southeast Asia Program and responsible for the Asia Power Index, the Institute’s annual ...

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In February 2024, New Zealand’s national government explored an interest in joining AUKUS Pillar II, the strand of the Australia–UK–US security partnership responsible for the… Trump’s trade policy: ...

Vietnam recently banned the film Uncharted from domestic distribution due to a scene depicting an “illegal image” of China’s infamous “nine-dash line”. This is not the first time popular culture has ...

Knowing a true number of residents is crucial to set development goals – for local government and foreign partners. Regardless of the questions raised about the UN study, the controversy showed the ...

The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been some of the most significant supporters of Ukraine following the invasion by Russia in February 2022, contributing the highest percentage ...

Last month, the leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue – the United States, Japan, India and Australia – met for the first time. Promising to strive for a region that is “free, open, inclusive ...