The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) is pleased to announce the appointment of seven distinguished ...

Since 2014, under the rule of the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a new chapter has being authored in India’s history, whereby the country has come to deviate from the basic principles of ...

Misleading entertainment visuals on TikTok are more potent than hate speech content, making misinformation and disinformation harder to identify. The effect is subtle yet powerful. Governments ...

The Australian government asserts that China’s military buildup is the largest of any country in post-war history. Their threat perception is overblown. Such claims are hard to pin down since ...

There is much hope that a world with more women leaders would be more peaceful. But gender stereotypes give women leaders political incentives to behave like “iron ladies” in foreign affairs rather ...

The initial enthusiasm for the nearly US$30bn that China injected into Pakistan has now vanished. Rather, CPEC has become entangled in Pakistani domestic politics, even as the BRI has transformed ...

The turn to “statecraft” in the defence and foreign affairs discourse in Australia is a move in the right direction. The risks in an era of US-China competition are real and serious: we need clear and ...

As China seeks to dominate the island chains in the Western Pacific, the Taiwan Crisis stands in its way. For China to take full control of these island chains, it must first seize Taiwan, the ...

The Kremlin’s decision to invade Ukraine has been primarily driven by the threat of NATO’s expansion along Russia’s border. Its strategic objective is to annex some Ukrainian territory and badly ...

Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on X (Twitter) Despite the growing opposition, mining operations are set to begin as soon as regulatory guidelines for mining in international waters allow, ...

The relative and changing power of states in the Indo-Pacific is assiduously displayed by the Lowy Institute’s Asia Power Index, which ranks states empirically as well as by influence. The 2023 ...

In the Solomon Islands, an election in April will decide whether a Chinese allied prime minister keeps his job. Manasseh Sogavare has taken advantage of urban unrest in the past, but his security ...