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  • 2 Nov 2023
    • Technology

    Artificial Intelligence: The regulatory race to ensure a democratic future

    Lydia Khalil
    Authoritarian governments have their own designs for AI in this new arena for strategic rivalry.
  • 2 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Climate change
    • Vanuatu

    Measuring the climate cost to Pacific development

    Riley Duke , Gilliane De Gorostiza
    International assistance is not keeping up with intensifying rate and scale of disasters in the region.
  • 2 Nov 2023
    • Europe
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • United States

    Ukraine: 2024 headwinds

    Mick Ryan
    A country already severely tested will face challenges in politics, maintaining global attention, and ensuring the necessities of war.
  • 1 Nov 2023
    • India
    • India's Economy
    • Europe
    • Europe's Economy
    • Trade
    • Middle East
    • Iran
    • Israel
    • Saudi Arabia
    • United Arab Emirates
    • United States
    • US Economy

    History repeats: A new (old) economic corridor emerges

    Ved Shinde
    Renewed connectivity between India, the Middle East and Europe shows how maps are temporary, but geography persists.
  • 1 Nov 2023
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Recommendations
    • Review

    The Fix: An evolving Saudi Arabia

    Gabriela Bernal
    Your weekly Interpreter feature about issues, resources or helpful distractions that might otherwise be missed.
  • 1 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    Loans, not grants, already proving costly for PNG

    Maholopa Laveil
    The latest Pacific Aid Map shows the PNG debt burden is growing and risks loom on the horizon.
  • 31 Oct 2023
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Debt
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific

    Infrastructure for influence: Pacific Islands building spree

    Meg Keen
    Even with stabilising debt and higher revenues, the region’s needs still outpace funding. Partnerships are key.
  • 31 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy

    Outward bound: We should celebrate Australian investment overseas

    Ian Satchwell
    Undervaluing what business achieves internationally as if somehow having a cost at home makes for bad policy.
  • 31 Oct 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australia and the Pacific

    Pacific aid enters a new era

    Alexandre Dayant
    The latest Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map demonstrates that there is no going back to the way things were.
  • 30 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • European Union
    • Trade

    Dashed hopes for Australia, Europe still has blind spots on trade

    Justin Brown
    The collapse of FTA negotiations illustrates that protectionist sentiment is still powerful in the bloc.
  • 30 Oct 2023
    • Australia in the World
    • Global Issues
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability
    • United States
    • US Elections

    The future isn’t what it used to be

    Mark Beeson
    Will a revolution be the way the world’s young people right the wrongs of the modern era?
  • 30 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • United States

    Instead of worrying about Trump, see the benefits of Biden

    Erin Hurley
    The opportunity now is to grow the understanding in Washington of the value provided by the US-Australia alliance.
  • 30 Oct 2023
    • Germany

    Left behind: Sahra Wagenknecht’s new populism

    Marcus Colla
    Germany’s forgotten voters are finding voice in anti-mainstream parties that defy classical definitions of “left” or “right”.
  • 27 Oct 2023
    • Diplomacy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • United Nations
    • United Arab Emirates

    Climate negotiations in a fossil fuel state: What to expect from COP28

    Melanie Pill
    Even with outcomes uncertain, there are three big topics likely to dominate the upcoming talks in Dubai.
  • 27 Oct 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative
    • Development Assistance
    • Emerging Donors
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy

    Geopolitics and the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway

    Teesta Prakash , Jack Sato
    Has the bullet train project strained the once tight relationship between Indonesia and China?
  • 27 Oct 2023
    • Indonesia

    An election loophole could tarnish Jokowi’s legacy

    Warief Djajanto Basorie
    Family drama rarely translates into good politics as Indonesia already knows all too well.
  • 26 Oct 2023
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Review

    A Marshall Plan for Ukraine?

    John West
    History can be a useful guide, but the geopolitical circumstances of today are vastly different.
  • 26 Oct 2023
    • Southeast Asia
    • Defence & Security

    Not only the dragon: Understanding Southeast Asia’s complex security landscape

    Rahman Yaacob
    Yes, US-China rivalry creates unease. But so do more pressing threats closer to home.
  • 26 Oct 2023
    • Central Asia
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Chinese Trade
    • Caucasus
    • Trade

    Beijing’s interest in the Middle Corridor

    Genevieve Donnellon-May
    An economic gateway through Central Asia could provide China a much less messy trade route to Europe.
  • 25 Oct 2023
    • China
    • Philippines
    • South China Sea
    • Defence & Security

    As the world looks elsewhere, China stirs trouble in the South China Sea

    Peter Layton
    The Chinese Communist Party-controlled Global Times is already forecasting “more serious collisions”.
  • 25 Oct 2023
    • Recommendations

    The Fix: The Stans have it

    Jack Sato
    Your weekly Interpreter feature about issues, resources or helpful distractions that might otherwise be missed.
  • 25 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United Kingdom
    • Technology
    • United States

    AUKUS as Big Science?

    Marigold Black
    With all the focus on nuclear-powered submarines, are we missing a chance to achieve something truly transformative?
  • 24 Oct 2023
    • United States

    The United States: More normal and less exceptional than you think

    Sam Roggeveen
    The exceptionalist mindset sees vital interests in every corner of the globe – only acts otherwise in practice.
  • 24 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • United States
    • US Economy

    How should Australia react to Bidenomics?

    Stephen Grenville
    Difference in philosophy is not to be feared.
  • 24 Oct 2023
    • Defence & Security
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Technology
    • Türkiye

    The dual-use conundrum

    Brendan Walker-Munro
    Restrictions on technology with both a civilian and military application are too often worthless without better coordination.
  • 23 Oct 2023
    • War Crimes
    • Review

    War crimes: The trial of a fallen French war hero and lessons for today

    Mark Pierce
    When can personal responsibility be dissolved into collective culpability?
  • 23 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Diplomacy

    A sign of the times: the resurgence of pacts, treaties, and alliances

    David M. Andrews
    Once dismissed as a “scrap of paper”, the vogue for written pledges has returned.
  • 23 Oct 2023
    • Space exploration

    Resources in the next frontier: Australia’s role in the race to space

    Tom Cernev
    The next boom might be found far, far away – and a chance not to repeat mistakes made before in a rush to mineral riches.
  • 20 Oct 2023
    • Asean
    • Middle East Conflict

    History and domestic dynamics: How ASEAN members see the Hamas-Israeli conflict

    Rahman Yaacob
    No common position unites Southeast Asian nations on the latest fighting.
  • 20 Oct 2023
    • India
    • G20

    India’s G20 set new agendas

    Ambika Vishwanath , Hritik Bhasin
    Bringing the Global South to the table was only one part of a new inclusiveness.
  • 20 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability
    • United Nations

    Can UNESCO save the Great Barrier Reef?

    Amy Capuano
    Climate change is a problem that confounds the original World Heritage model.
  • 19 Oct 2023
    • China
    • European Union
    • Energy
    • Trade

    China’s car exports pose a key question to policymakers: Compete or protect?

    Robert Walker
    How they respond will have implications for consumers and the climate.
  • 19 Oct 2023
    • Mongolia
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Mongolia’s critical role in the global energy transition

    Byambajav Dalaibuyan , Vigya Sharma
    Many suitors are eager to assist the country in realising its natural resources potential. But are all the deals win-win?
  • 19 Oct 2023
    • Asean
    • Southeast Asia

    Owning the Indo-Pacific term: Time for a new ASEAN strategic narrative

    Ngô Di Lân
    With its diverse membership that includes democracies, monarchies, and single-party states, the grouping is well positioned for an inclusive approach.
  • 18 Oct 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Climate change

    Crafting a new loss and damage fund

    Melanie Pill
    Harnessing philanthropic finance and emulating features from existing solutions could be a match made in heaven.
  • 18 Oct 2023
    • China
    • Recommendations

    The Fix: Getting a read on China

    Yun Jiang
    Your weekly Interpreter feature to rake up resources and reads you might otherwise miss.
  • 18 Oct 2023
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Trade
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Australia must play the geoeconomics game, or risk being side-lined

    Naoise McDonagh
    The world is moving away from a rules-based order and towards power politics. Is Canberra ready?
  • 17 Oct 2023
    • Maldives

    Rethinking the Maldives-India security relationship

    David Brewster , Athaulla A Rasheed
    Finding the right balance for foreign partnerships will mean hard choices. Here are some practical first steps.
  • 17 Oct 2023
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Technology
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sex and Gender

    Empowering women in the Pacific: A collaborative effort to confront online abuse

    Julie Inman Grant
    A regional symposium was an important step in tackling technology-facilitated gender-based violence.
  • 17 Oct 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy

    Indonesia and its bid for OECD membership

    Retno Maruti , Andriansyah
    The benefits outweigh the costs for one of Southeast Asia’s most dynamic emerging economies to join the “club”.
  • 16 Oct 2023
    • Emerging Threats
    • Coronavirus
    • Technology
    • Transnational Challenges

    Managing risk: Pandemics and plagues in the age of AI

    David Heslop , Joel Keep
    An Australian-initiated international forum could hold the key to controlling unconventional weapons in the age of generative AI.
  • 16 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    Australia’s next challenge for Indigenous foreign policy

    Daniel Flitton
    The defeat of the Voice referendum may be a chance to tell a broader story about the challenges facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  • 16 Oct 2023
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • United Nations

    Global South activists seek a human rights framework for the climate crisis

    Clare Francis
    A groundswell movement was evident as leaders gathered at the UN last month to make sure the people most affected are heard.
  • 13 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Canada
    • The Trump Presidency
    • United States
    • Review

    Imagining Trump’s second term

    Mark Pierce
    Could Canada cope? Might Australia? Two books on the “vice in the chest and tightness in the stomach” prospect.
  • 13 Oct 2023
    • Philippines
    • South China Sea
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Australia must act fast on joint patrols with the Philippines

    Jennifer Parker
    Australia “recommitted” two months ago. The Philippines is waiting, China is watching – and so is the region.
  • 13 Oct 2023
    • Myanmar

    Beware sensational claims about Myanmar’s security environment

    Andrew Selth
    Heavy on gossip, rumour and anecdote, too many stories about the junta-led country lack verifiable evidence.
  • 12 Oct 2023
    • Middle East Conflict
    • Israel

    Israel–Palestine conflict once more the overriding issue of regional security

    Lydia Khalil
    The Palestinian cause remained, but for the region had become a second or third-order issue among diplomatic normalisation and other pressing challenges.
  • 12 Oct 2023
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Energy

    How can Australia get its commitments to reduce carbon emissions back on track?

    Greg Earl
    Economic diplomacy: Putting energy into the post-Voice political vacuum by smoothing Australia’s relations is a start.
  • 12 Oct 2023
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • United Kingdom
    • Public Opinion

    Voting “Yes” in the heart of empire

    Hugh Piper , Matthew Newman
    If the ballot queue in London were any guide, the Voice would win hands down.
  • 11 Oct 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy
    • Energy
    • Trade

    Indonesia’s “golden visa” pitch to big-wheel investors

    Warief Djajanto Basorie
    The President has a downstreaming vision and needs long-term capital to make it reality.
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