Australia’s climate policy sits at a critical crossroads, with ambitious goals tempered by ongoing reliance on fossil fuels. As COP29 approaches, Australia’s challenge is to reconcile its energy strategies with climate leadership aspirations, highlighting the delicate balance between economic interests and environmental commitments.

The World Bank has increasingly involved itself in war and peace. However, how appropriate and effective is this engagement if it selectively ignores the politics of conflict?

Russia has a chip problem. As in Soviet times, national science and technology development is faltering under the heavy hand of statel; the implications for the national economy are dire. 

The high-stakes power struggle in the South China Sea unfolds as China’s audacious ambitions collide with the Philippines' bold resistance, bolstered by US alliances amid ASEAN’s fractured diplomacy. Beyond mere territorial disputes, it exposes a critical battleground for international law, global influence, and the shifting order of 21st-century geopolitics.

Climate change poses a significant threat to Australia’s national security. Major concerns include damage to critical infrastructure, reduced capacities of the armed forces, regional political instability, and climate insecurity among some key allies.  

On 7 August 2024, Thailand’s Constitutional Court dissolved the highly popular Move Forward Party and banned its 11 party executives from politics for 10 years. While this represents yet another blow to the country’s progressive political forces, they remain defiant and continue to push for more democracy.

Not a “natural partner” of the US, India is a “wild card” in the Quad. The grouping is built more on geopolitical pragmatism than on shared liberal-democratic norms and values.

The Knesset’s decision to vote to expel UNRWA from Israel is another major set-back for the Palestinian people. It’s also part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to remove all obstacles to his government’s plans to redraw the geostrategic map of the region.

More and more Australian high school students are turning away from Indonesian as an elective subject. Action should […]

The 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly marks a time when trust in the rules-based international system, capitalism, and democracy has waned dangerously low. Middle powers like Canada and Australia, with proven legitimacy and exemplary records for multilateral cooperation on security and human rights challenges, must do more to redouble support for multilateralism.