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Great powers increasingly expect alignment not only in military affairs but also across diplomacy, technology, supply chains, and public signalling.
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Australia and the European Union will sign a security and defence partnership to offer industry procurement opportunities and tangible economic
At first glance, the current crisis involving Iran has generated a familiar interpretive reflex: that the recent American and Israeli
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