With Heather Smith and Katherine Mansted.

Australia’s intentions to acquire nuclear powered submarines raise an important question: what are the submarines for? It appears that strategic rationale has been displaced by assumptions about technological superiority.

Dual-track, loose, and tight formations of Indo-Pacific alliances could outpace China’s naval build-up. Such groupings make the task of projecting power out beyond China’s littoral all the more treacherous.

COP26, the UN global summit on climate change assembling in Glasgow next week, could determine a solution to what is generally agreed to be the greatest threat to planet Earth. Such an outcomes appears unlikely.

Where there’s smoke, there’s sickness. There's also clouds of money.

Montenegro is in the midst of a democratic transition. Unfortunately, this member of NATO and candidate for entry into the European Union faces significant hurdles in becoming a functioning democracy.  

Electronic elections are associated with improved accessibility, efficacy, and cost. The digitisation of elections in Australia induces new vulnerabilities that malign foreign entities can exploit to subvert the nation’s democratic sovereignty.

The view that AUKUS is a justified response to China's actions ignores China’s achievements and future ambitions. It also ignores China’s legitimate security fears.

China has increasingly engaged in coercive economic behaviour on an international scale. Australia and its allies will need to unite to coordinate a strong geoeconomic response.

In the 1960s, the Indonesian army engaged in the organised slaughter of Communists in Indonesia. Indonesians will soon be able to read the truth about their nation’s atrocity.