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 ...

Australia should articulate and pursue a disciplined Taiwan strategy that uses the flexibility of its one-China policy to increase engagement with Taipei in service of Australian economic and security ...

One of the sharpest observers of Asian geopolitics has written his first book: Bilahari Kausikan’s The Myth of the Asian Century has just been released by Penguin Random House Australia and is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman is Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King's College London. He was Professor of War Studies from 1982 to 2014 and Vice-Principal from 2003 to 2013. Before joining King ...