The Biden administration has made strong progress in promoting women’s representation in important top national security positions. At the lower level, more needs to be done to increase full gender parity.

Sam Roggeveen takes issue with assumptions concerning the staying power of the United States in East Asia, while also arguing against the view that China is a threat to Australia. He is an advocate for “defensive defence,” urging a return to the “defence of Australia” doctrine rather than proceeding with the AUKUS arrangements.

It is no secret that the UN needs reform. Nearly eight decades on, and with great power competition having returned, the UN is bleeding relevance. 

US corporations are having to increasingly juggle concerns of data privacy and human rights alongside profit margins and growth in their dealings with China. Disney looks to be the latest, but certainly not the last, corporation to adjust its expectations amid US-China great power competition. 

The protracted Palestine-Israel conflict has ignited widespread public protests in South Asia, revealing a growing anti-Semitic sentiment among certain segments of the population. This surge in anti-Semitism, coupled with covert radicalization efforts, underscores the complex interplay of visible solidarity and hidden extremist influences, raising concerns about the potential for a militant resurgence in the region.

Member of Parliament from Parramatta, home to the largest number of Indian diaspora residents, Andrew Charlton provides an engaging account of Australia-India relations comprehensively taking stock of the political, strategic, socio-cultural and economic evolution from Menzies-Nehru animosity to Albanese-Modi bromance.

The Blue Line that separates Israel and Lebanon may at any point become the next place to witness an explosion of violence. The precariousness of the peace that exists between the two countries means that any act of disproportional violence in Palestine may ignite greater bloodshed. 

On Tuesday 10 October 2023, Professor Emeritus Graeme Gill, President of the International Council for Central and East European Studies and longtime expert […]

This week in Australian foreign affairs: Albanese, Marles and Wong on Hamas attack on Israel; Cheng Lei returns to Australia; sixth Philippines–Australia Ministerial […]

The differences in party conferences between the Labour and Conservative parties in the United Kingdom recently has been as much about policy as behaviour. With Labour catching up, Rishi Sunak's party will be getting worried. 

The people of Rempang and Galang Island, Batam City (Kepri Province) Indonesia, have been living in an atmosphere of anxiety for the last few months. The development of new island economic areas for which the government seems increasingly willing to ignore the people in its search for investments has created trouble for the new investors.