Retired Australian Army General Mick Ryan is one of the most influential and prolific analysts of the Ukraine war. This conversation with Sam Roggeveen, Director of the International Security Program, ...

Why was Europe surprised? Anyone paying attention to the views of the new US administration should have known Donald Trump has consistently said he was determined to bring an early end to hostilities ...

The fate of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the premier aid organisation in the US government, hangs in the balance. But it is not Donald Trump alone that can decide its fate, and ...

In the years leading up to the pandemic, senior diplomats and foreign ministry officials from China began to adopt a pugnacious and overtly nationalist tone to official statements, media comments and ...

Three years ago, Russian forces moved across the Ukrainian northern, eastern and southern frontiers, as well as in a coordinated series of missile and air assault actions, in the hope of a short, ...

Singapore relations with the United States were built on a foundation of strong defence ties rooted in shared values and mutual interests – a stable rule-based global order and multilateralism. In the ...

In February 2024, New Zealand’s national government explored an interest in joining AUKUS Pillar II, the strand of the Australia–UK–US security partnership responsible for the sharing of advanced ...

Over the past months, I’ve had the opportunity to share and exchange ideas with European politicians, analysts and intellectuals. What struck me was not just the familiar sense of concern, but a ...

Mutiara Indriani is an Australia Awards scholar and a PhD candidate at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), the Australian National University (ANU), where she applies an ...

The US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement last month under President Donald Trump has eroded global trust in multilateral climate commitments. A recent statement by an Indonesian climate envoy ...

The latest tariff news coming from the Trump administration is that they will calculate all support given to a country’s domestic firms as anti-competitive subsidies and all taxes imposed on imports ...