One practical innovation in ensuring the robustness of foreign relations is mandatory use of national interest analysis (NIA). In countries such as Australia and New Zealand, an NIA is built into ...

Syrian governments are notoriously opaque. Syria’s new regime under transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa, is no exception. Having cancelled the existing Syrian Constitution, al-Sharaa governs with ...

The trajectory of India-US relations is on the upswing. The first Trump administration further strengthened the strategic partnership with India, taking significant steps to enhance bilateral defence ...

The US aid freeze won’t break the Pacific, but it will create unnecessary disruptions. For Southeast Asia, the consequences are mixed, likely to hit Myanmar and Cambodia hardest, as well as those ...

Myanmar remains the scene of an unending crisis. More than 6000 civilians killed, 20,000 political prisoners, and more than 3 million internally displaced persons represent the human cost of a war ...

Small island countries have repeatedly shown exceptional leadership in matters relating to climate change, calling out laggards failing to adhere to their pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ...

In the face of geopolitical confrontation, technologies evolving faster than we can regulate them, populist politics and failing cooperation on climate, we must understand that the best way to manage ...

The Trump administration has spent a week directing USAID and other government departments to remove any references to gender equality, women’s empowerment and LGBTQIA+ programs from their websites ...

Over the more than 50 years since the floating of the US dollar, American economists have broadly agreed with US former Treasury Secretary Connolly’s 1971 message to the rest of the world: “It’s our ...

As Australia’s chief voice on foreign affairs, Penny Wong has sought to project calm in the wake of Donald Trump’s tariffs – both those threatened and applied. “This is consistent with what President ...

Over the past decade, the Oceania region has moved from what many thought was a backwater of global politics towards much greater centrality. A significant driver of Oceania’s greater prominence in ...

It’s the “Canada” of it all that makes it so worrisome for Australians, because Australia and Canada are so alike. Canada is safe, likeable, reasonable, wealthy, friendly, Western, English-speaking.