Based on in-depth analysis of opinion polls available for the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, the book discusses the political quietism prevailing in the major oil exporters of the Gulf. It introduces the concept of "hydrocarbon citizens” to characterise and explain this prevailing attitude. 

The official designation of KIT Batang as a Special Economic Zone (KEK) marks a significant milestone in Central Java's growing economic ties with China. While promising substantial investment inflows, it also calls for careful management to ensure sustainable development and local benefits

The return of Donald Trump to the White House in 2025 has undoubtedly introduced new dynamics into the Asia-Pacific region. For the Philippines, a long-standing ally of the United States with strategic geopolitical significance, the second Trump administration poses both opportunities and challenges.

Global events such as the election of Donald Trump in America and the popular rise of the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party in Germany have shown that democracies around the world are experiencing democratic backsliding. In an era where even Australia’s democratic system faces significant challenges, democratic security presents a fresh security lens with which democratic decline can be explained, targeted, and resisted.  

The “ASEAN Way” has become a lazy label that obscures more than it reveals. Behind this convenient stereotype lies a complex reality of strategic calculations, domestic politics, and pragmatic compromises. Understanding these concrete mechanisms is essential for anyone seeking to engage effectively with Southeast Asia’s most important regional organisation. 

It was only a matter of time until the Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) gunmen of Syria’s post-Assad interim government took into their own hands violence against non-Sunni Muslims.  

Rather than an American anomaly, the impetuous 47th President of the United States is in control of a power system that was already broken, after decades of unipolarity and neoliberal agendas. At the international level, Trump voices an open refusal of the multilateral liberal order in favour of power politics, a choice that America had made in the past, without letting that be known. Donald Trump’s true innovation in today’s politics is therefore in the blunt language with which he announces his “America First” priorities, while his country’s goals of world supremacy remain the same.

The choices Australians make in this year’s federal election will define Australia’s role in protecting human dignity, fostering global stability, and critically, securing our future.  

If Ukraine possessed nuclear weapons, would Russia have annexed Crimea in 2014 or invaded in 2022? Should Ukraine and its allies regret Ukraine's disarmament?

What if an unpredictable leader chose to block Australian access to ChatGPT? Or if the owner of a […]