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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

As the second Trump administration assembled, the Philippines appeared relatively sanguine about the prospects of stronger bilateral relations. The elevation of China hawks such as new Secretary of ...

Donald Trump has given Mexico and Canada a 30-day reprieve from the 25% tariffs levied on their exports (10% on oil) to the United States. The stated motivation for the US to violate the terms of the ...

Terrorism, human and drug trafficking, environmental crimes, and increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity risks all have a maritime dimension. Coupled with ongoing geopolitical tensions in the South ...

Some years ago, I found myself taking minutes for a meeting between a senior Papua New Guinean government official, an Australian ex-government-official-turned consultant (my boss), and a diplomat ...

Japan, famously, has a pacifist constitution, although that has not prevented the country amassing a formidable military force for “self-defence”. Each country to ban war has a different reason for ...

The return of President Donald Trump to the White House means another trade war between the United States and China looks likely. The latest data show that China continues to deepen its trading ...