Richard McGregor is Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute, Australia’s premier foreign policy think tank. Richard is a former Beijing and Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times ...

The study of how Ukrainian forces have adapted, learned, and transformed their training regimes is a vital but under-examined element of this war, and war more generally. Ukraine’s military training ...

Australia’s own domestic politics, once a geopolitical punchline, is a growing soft power tool in its diplomatic kitbag and a complementary door opener for new relationships. Building off a series of ...

“If something happens that’s wrong, you say sorry” said Evan Shackleton, son of one of the Balibo Five, last week. Shackleton was speaking to media at Balibo at commemorations for the five journalists ...

This 60-year-old Cold War relic is finding new voice as a venue separated from institutions of the West. Yet it was actually the summit’s chair, Azerbaijan, who seemed to pull the strings behind the ...

It is unlikely that Ream Naval Base in Cambodia will be a Chinese military base or outpost such as the facility in Djibouti fully operated by the People’s Liberation Army. However, China could gain ...

Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob was a Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. His research interests include Southeast Asia’s defence and security issues and the region’s relations ...

Much has been said in recent days about the Pukpuk Treaty, named after the Tok Pisin word for crocodile, which is found in both Papua New Guinea and Australia. Known for its stillness and sudden power ...

A few days ago, I crossed one of Europe’s strangest borders – the Saatse Boot, a narrow slice of Russian territory that intrudes into southeastern Estonia. Vehicles may pass through the Boot along a 1 ...

The world is presently suffering the highest number of conflicts since the Second World War. At least 48,000 civilians were killed last year, with one eighth of the world’s population impacted by ...

Sajjan Gohel’s important work on deceased al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is not only highly readable but constitutes a much more complete biographical study than the very few works previously ...

The claim that the twenty-first century will be Asian, just as the twentieth century was American, is often made but seldom examined. Yet this axiom is not just simplistic, it could also encourage the ...