For North Korea, the stars of history are aligning with those of geopolitics. North Korea has a vast arms industry whose products are almost entirely modelled on Soviet ones that the Russian army ...

In the past fortnight, multi-party parliamentary delegations from India and Pakistan have stopped in London as part of a world tour. Having had the opportunity to interact with both delegations, one ...

But the relative stability of the camps may now be drawing to an end. The last couple of years has seen an uptick in Rohingya refugee flows out of Bangladesh, and the number is expected to increase ...

The dominant strategic narrative presents the Indo-Pacific in binaries: democracies versus autocracies, the US-led order versus China’s challenge, AUKUS versus the PLA Navy. But this framing is not ...

In the past four months, the Trump administration has published more than 130 executive orders. Three categories of emerging policy – maritime strategy, energy, and critical minerals – are likely to ...

In 2017, Trump did not expect to win and was not ready to govern when he beat Hillary Clinton in the election. As a newly elected leader with no experience in government, personal relationships and ...

Stephen Moran is an independent trade analyst. He was Senior Trade Analyst in the Office of National Assessments from 2010­ to 2021. Before that, he held various trade policy roles in the Department ...

This month, world leaders met to attend the 2025 UN Ocean Conference, held in France. In his speech, Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Feleti Teo called for“the development of an international treaty on sea ...

More than four years after the coup in Myanmar, ASEAN’s struggle to address the crisis has not only exposed institutional deadlock but also catalysed a decentralisation of regional diplomacy. While ...

Established in 2023 in the Australian Department of Defence, net assessments will play an increasingly important role in shaping the future of the Australian Defence Force, disciplining long-term ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto campaigned on a promise of continuity and better economic performance. Is Prabowo living up to his campaign promises or taking the country in a new direction? The ...

The two-year Tigray war was sharp and deadly, with up to 700,000 people killed and as many as 120,000 women raped. It is estimated the conflict left about 10,000 schools damaged, with 8 million ...