The Great Game

Despite structural flaws and funding shortfalls, multilateral cooperation offers the only path through turmoil.

When it comes to Australia, Trump’s focus is elsewhere, and that’s not all bad.

Washington’s aid freeze threatens decades of progress against infectious diseases across Australia’s neighbourhood.

Political upheaval in Kathmandu tests the limits of great power influence in South Asia.

Joint training brings depth to an important bilateral relationship and allows troops to rehearse for what may lie ahead.

It was always going to be a hurdle for PNG to change its non-aligned foreign policy.

The mosquito-borne disease is more than a health emergency – it symbolises the injustice of climate change.

NATO's new benchmark is a good one for Australia to adopt. But what should the additional money be spent on?

Small European territories fear the cost of proximity as tensions boil between Washington and Caracas.

For a relationship historically dominated by security concerns, energy and mineral reserves could give Islamabad’s ties with…

New Delhi’s efforts to maintain equidistance from all powers increasingly faces pressure to choose a side.

With no reliable evidence of North Korean soldiers beyond Kursk, the reality isn’t matching the media hype.

The US military rebrand exposes uncomfortable truths about American power that could reshape regional relationships.

Tech rivalry is a telling case study where pragmatic engagement with both superpowers is preferred despite mounting pressure to…

The West should not be blinded by what is plain to see.

Drone attacks on energy infrastructure expose Moscow’s vulnerabilities while raising costs of continued war.

When fashion becomes foreign policy.

In fact, there’s a strong case to be made that Australia’s relationships with regional countries have never been better.

A supposed cornerstone of regional policy seems anything but.

Pacific leaders will gather in Honiara for big declarations on security and climate, but regional fragmentation poses a pressing…