Analysis

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09 Jul 2026
Peace rankings remain valuable measures of domestic stability. But do they capture Australian partnerships that keep the Indo-Pacific's shared waters
02 Jul 2026
Monday’s signing of the Vanuatu-Australia Nakamal Agreement is being hailed as a diplomatic win for Australia in its ‘permanent contest’
30 Jun 2026
The security architecture of the Indo-Pacific is in the middle of a fundamental restructuring. Great-power strategic competition, China’s growing assertiveness
30 Jun 2026
The decision by Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to designate AI-enabled payloads (mission equipment that performs the
25 Jun 2026
Successive crises have pushed the European Union towards forms of collective action that increasingly resemble a federal logic. While the
25 Jun 2026
Australia is set to host the infrastructure of the AI boom. Microsoft has pledged A$25 billion by 2029, while Amazon
25 Jun 2026
Earlier this month the pro-EU Prime Minister Nikol ⁠Pashinyan and his Civil Contract party won a landslide election victory in
24 Jun 2026
In July 2023, at the second Russia-Africa Summit, held in St. Petersburg, the event was predominantly seen as a reflection
24 Jun 2026
Small island nations have gained renewed strategic attention in Indo-Pacific geopolitics. The 50 years of the establishment of diplomatic relations
24 Jun 2026
Melbourne hosted a World Expo in 1880, attracting 1.3 million visitors (more than five times its total population), while Brisbane
17 Jun 2026
The recent success of Germany's far-right party, Alternative für Deutschland, does not pose a direct challenge to Germany's well-established institutions
22 Jun 2026
The principle of differentiated responsibilities was designed to protect the vulnerable, not shield the profitable. Extending it to fossil fuel