Hostage-taking and arbitrary detention by both state and non-state actors are on the rise. The Lowy Institute’s Sean Turnell, ...

Despite raising wages up to 28.5% across the sector, Australia’s workforce shortage in aged care will probably still reach ...

For instance, Australia has delivered more than AU$2.5 billion, on top of the estimated $AU2 billion in aid, directly into ...

The UK government announced last week that it will cede sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The agreement ...

Liberal democracy doesn’t defend itself. The Finns know a thing or two about protecting it.

While the Taliban claims that it is acting on Afghan culture, by banning women’s access to poetry it is acting completely ...

As our world becomes more digitally interdependent, geopolitical competition is increasingly centred around technology. The ...

On 1 October, Shigeru Ishiba was sworn in as Japan’s new prime minister, after succeeding in his fifth attempt to win the ...

The reasoning for the Chinese preferring Trump is sound enough. A Trump win represents decline, dilapidation, and chaos in ...

China again looms large in the US presidential election campaign. Republican critics have in recent weeks honed their attacks ...

In the whirlwind of speeches to cement Kamala Harris’ presidential credentials, the Pacific Islands have hardly rated a ...

With less than a month to go before one of the most consequential presidential elections in US history, Lowy Institute ...