A Harris administration would likely continue to use tariffs (mostly on China) to address what the United States views as ...

Trump is also an alliance sceptic, whereas Australians are alliance believers. Last time around, Trump treated allies not as ...

One of the more established ideas in the social sciences is that there are advantages to be derived from going first. Whether it is entrepreneurs coming up with new gizmos or countries pioneering new ...

Each year, the Lowy Institute’s Asia Power Index (API) provides the authoritative guide to the distribution of power in Asia.

In 2022, Assistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts declared that Australia wanted a new relationship – one of partnership – with Africa. Good call, but little action has followed so far. Africa looms ...

This month, the former East-German states of Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg held elections for their state parliaments. Two parties that made the greatest gains were the far-right Alternative für ...

It’s a slightly scary feeling when the hotel manager calls you in your room and tells you that the police have put the whole country into curfew, and you cannot go outside. But perhaps that’s my fault ...

South Korea must be careful not to politicise high-level defections from the North. By politicising these defections in a democracy-versus-autocracy binary, the Yoon administration is exaggerating the ...

Singapore ranks eighth out of 27 countries for comprehensive power in Asia, besting ninth-ranked Indonesia by one place. How is it possible that a country of fewer than six million people, with a land ...

Over the past decade, India has significantly bolstered its collaboration with African nations in the renewable energy sector. Harnessing the continent’s abundant solar potential is seen as crucial ...

While the West tends to dismiss North Korea as a rogue state or hermit kingdom, the reality is that North Korea is a nuclear power. That automatically boosts its position on the international stage.