The Iranian drones and missiles that struck airports in Dubai, Doha, and across the Gulf in the opening days of Iran’s retaliation against American and Israeli strikes were notable for hitting the ...

US-led military operations against Iran – which began with a decapitation strike that killed the regime’s most senior leadership figures including Ayatollah Khamenei – will have far-reaching ...

Australian membership in ASEAN is currently not possible. Australia’s dialogue partner relationship with ASEAN supports Australian policy autonomy and Australia’s engagement with Southeast Asia. The ...

It’s tempting to assume that Donald Trump is the world’s biggest foreign policy problem. But in Australia’s case, that would be as incomplete as it is dangerous. After a week of consultations with ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a remarkable address to the Munich Security Conference on 14 February, a speech that offered a vision of renewed Western civilisational expansion. “For five ...

Defence was long the laggard among Western European budgets. By the early 2010s, the “peace dividend” of the post–Cold War era had coupled with crushing austerity policies to take an especially heavy ...

The new Fund for responding to Loss and Damage should adopt a clear allocation mechanism based on recipient countries’ vulnerability, emission contributions, and climate change policies. Loss and ...

The last time Australia and Indonesia celebrated a security pact – the 1995 Agreement on Maintaining Security (AMS) – it ended poorly. The new Treaty of Common Security echoes that moment, but history ...

The rapid demise of two Thai prime ministers in as many years has paved the way for a third: Anutin Charnvirakul, leader of the third largest party in the Thai parliament, Bhumjai Thai. Who is Anutin, ...

“There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them,” Winston Churchill once famously lamented. Nothing better captures the realpolitik wisdom of the British ...

The global resurgence of religion among young people (especially young men) stands as one of the great puzzles of our era, defying two long-held sociological iron laws: faith is for the old, and for ...

The latest NATO summit proved a surprising success following a surreal bromance between top leaders. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, a veteran politician and former Dutch prime minister, pulled out ...