Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced an historic treaty with Nauru President David Adeang, securing the financial future of the Pacific nation – or at least for the next five years ...

Negotiations towards a global plastic treaty adjourned in Busan last week without delivering an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. The introduction of ambitious caps to the ...

Australia is still conducting disaster diplomacy in a reactive, myopic and piecemeal fashion, mostly bilaterally.

Such a capability has proven crucial to the success of several externally orientated violent campaigns undertaken by jihadist actors. For example, the spate of violence against Europe by ISIS in the ...

The First Friend by Malcolm Knox is a dark and sadly relevant exploration of power, loyalty, and moral compromise in an age of creeping authoritarianism and the return of strongman politics. Set in ...

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It is unlikely that Ream Naval Base in Cambodia will be a Chinese military base or outpost such as the facility in Djibouti fully operated by the People’s Liberation Army. However, China could gain ...

In recent Australian maritime security conversations, it would be fair to say that submarines have featured fairly prominently. Although the tenor of sub talk this week still proved head-turning, when ...

The marital law gamble by South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol backfired spectacularly. Yet the extraordinary events of an unusually cold winter’s night – which saw an evidently well-prepared ...

Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, on the Gulf of Thailand, is unlikely to fall exclusively into China’s grasp following a Chinese upgrade of the military facility, but it could still serve as a key ...

I confess to harbouring a nerdish streak about foreign policy matters, which has kept me occupied now for 25 years. But unlike Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles, who boasts an impressive ...