Grace Stanhope is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute’s Indo-Pacific Development Centre working on the Southeast Asia Aid Map, a tool that tracks and analyses foreign aid and development ...

Trump’s tariffs on India: Modi will have to step back to move ahead ...

The maritime relationship between Australia and India has developed considerably over recent years, but it has yet to reach its full potential. As both countries face mounting challenges in the ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in January that a Japanese national had pleaded guilty to the attempted trafficking of nuclear materials, including uranium, thorium and plutonium, from ...

Since his return to office less than two months ago, President Donald Trump has trashed America’s reputation among liberal democratic allies, including Australia. He has sided with Vladimir Putin’s ...

For many scholars of international relations, the orthodoxy of the realist approach – much like “market–based” approaches in economics – has created a mistaken belief that the play-off of interests, ...

Southeast Asia is home to some of the most dynamic and fast‑growing economies in the world. Yet the region continues to face significant development challenges, including poverty, limited access to ...

This morning at an International Women’s Day breakfast in Adelaide, Penny Wong was asked a simple, yet terrific question. It has indeed been quite a week. Suddenly there is talk about Australian ...

On The Director’s Chair, Michael Fullilove - Executive Director of the Lowy Institute speaks with political leaders and policy makers about their lives, their careers, and their views on the world. In ...

Australia’s vulnerability to maritime trade disruption is well recognised. International shipping moves some 99 per cent of the nation’s traded goods by volume worth A$755 billion in 2021, and ...

A special Interpreter series ahead of International Women’s Day, 2025, on 8 March. Just two weeks later, at the unveiling of the Australia-Southeast Asia Regional Development Partnership Plan (DPP), ...

The launch of Waterworth, Meta’s sprawling 50,000-kilometre submarine cable system, longer than the Earth’s circumference, arrives cloaked in the language of progress. The use of 24 fibre pairs, far ...