I agree with Will Leben, who wrote in The Strategist about his mistakes, that an important element of being a commentator is ...

Two recent foreign challenges suggest that Australia needs urgently to increase its level of defence self-reliance and to ...

Australia’s export-oriented industries, particularly agriculture, need to diversify their markets, with a focus on Southeast ...

Australia’s export-oriented industries, particularly agriculture, need to diversify their markets, with a focus on Southeast ...

Japan and Australia talk of ‘collective deterrence,’ but they don’t seem to have specific objectives. The relationship needs ...

US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have dominated headlines in India in recent weeks. Earlier this month, Trump ...

US President Donald Trump’s hostile regime has finally forced Europe to wake up. With US officials calling into question the ...

Myanmar was a key global site for criminal activity well before the 2021 military coup. Today, illicit industry, especially ...

At a time of rising geopolitical tensions and deepening global fragmentation, the Ukraine war has proved particularly ...

In a recent presentation, I recommended, quite unoriginally, that governments should have a greater focus on higher-impact, ...

We need to establish clearer political boundaries around national security to avoid politicising ongoing security issues and to better manage secondary effects. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) ...

An agreement to end the war in Ukraine could transform Russia’s relations with North Korea. Moscow is unlikely to reduce its ...