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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Delhi-based independent researcher and foreign affairs columnist. She is currently working as a security risk analyst with Horizon Intelligence, a Belgium-based threat intelligence firm. She was a ...

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 ...

While Russia struggles to capture strategically insignificant villages in eastern Ukraine, its client in Syria, President Bashar-al Assad, has lost control over Aleppo – the war-torn nation’s second ...

Emil Avdaliani is a professor of international relations and the history of diplomacy at European University in Tbilisi, Georgia. His research focuses on the Silk Road and the interests of world ...

Hannah Buckley is a Research Assistant at the Lowy Institute, contributing to the Southeast Asia Aid Map project. She is completing a Master of International Relations at UNSW.