By Andrew Carr Australia’s discussion of China is less of a debate than two important schools of thought talking past each other. The values school is predominant, especially in government and the media. It...

By Mark Leonard European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s ambition to lead a ‘geopolitical commission’ has faced its first big test. European heads of state met last week to discuss her proposed European...

By Colin Filer The Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is still searching for ways to achieve its stated goal of ‘mobilising’ large areas of customary land for the purpose of ‘development’ while ‘empowering...

By Graeme Dobell The map of Pacific island maritime boundaries is also the image of a paradigm shift. This fundamental change in the understandings and imaginings of the islands was delivered by the UN’s...

By Russian Defense Policy S-400 deployments in the 2nd ADD The regiment, likely the 1489th SAM Regiment, has returned to its home base of Vaganovo ENE of StP. It’s supposed to begin combat duty...

By Donald Greenlees President Joko Widodo has expressed frustration to his economic advisers in recent months over Indonesia’s failure to attract a ‘fair share’ of the foreign investment dollars going into Southeast Asia. Even...

By Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One A technology that many hope will prevent the worst effects of climate change could also produce fuel or other defense products. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)

By James Brorson, Aakriti Bachhawat and Luke Courtois The world As exit polls predict a big victory for the Conservatives in the British general election, read this Washington Post piece that captures the mood...

By Carl Bildt Recognising that the European Union is facing a number of vexing challenges on the world stage, Ursula von der Leyen, the new European Commission president, has promised to lead a ‘geopolitical’...

By Huong Le Thu Vietnam has just released its new defence white paper, 10 years after the last one was issued in 2009. The 2019 document isn’t fundamentally different from the earlier one—there are...

By Isaac Kfir In September, Japan and the EU launched the EU–Japan Partnership on Sustainable Connectivity and Quality Infrastructure, partly in response to escalating tensions between the United States and China over trade. This...

By Tariq Bhatti The leak of an internal e-mail from an OPCW employee using the pseudonym “Alex” has stirred a controversy over the integrity of the OPCW Fact Finding Mission (FFM) into the April...

By Peter Chalk Promoting maritime domain awareness has become an increasingly high priority area for many Southeast Asian governments. As a concept, maritime domain awareness essentially refers to gaining a shared picture and understanding...

By Peter Chalk Promoting maritime domain awareness has become an increasingly high priority area for many Southeast Asian governments. As a concept, maritime domain awareness essentially refers to gaining a shared picture and understanding...

By Matt Withers The relationship between temporary labour migration and economic development is a subject of longstanding academic debate and policy consideration. Migrant workers’ remittances, which this year overtook foreign direct investment (FDI) to...

By Patrick Tucker, Defense One The experimental tool is among several that aim to combine sensors and AI to give U.S. operators a new edge. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)

By ASPI staff In this episode, Mali Walker interviews Oriana Skylar Mastro, assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, about her most recent book, The...

By Brendan Nicholson When David Nicolson and his fellow soldiers in Combat Team Alpha from the Royal Australian Regiment’s 2nd Battalion served in a remote outpost in Afghanistan’s Mirabad Valley, there was a standing...

By Sunny Cao, Sarah O’Connor and James Rickard The beat Calls to reform NSW strip-search rules Using data obtained by the Redfern Legal Centre under freedom of information laws, The Guardian reports that NSW...

By Mike Scrafton Witnesses appearing before the US House of Representatives’ impeachment hearings have regularly connected Russian aggression in Ukraine with US national security. The overwhelming international consensus is that Russia’s annexation of Crimea...