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 ...

Back to the future The Morrison government gave the development aid sector an unexpected surprise with a budget spending increase mostly in the Pacific, just as the latest crisis… In November 2018 ...

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After an initial period of diplomatic ambivalence at the United Nations, China now broadly seeks to reform the UN system from within through its “shared future” global governance vision — an agenda ...

In the immediate aftermath of the April terrorist attack in the Pahalgam region of Jammu and Kashmir, and anger in India towards Pakistan at harbouring terrorists, diplomatic rhetoric escalated and ...

In 1971, US President Richard Nixon shocked global financial markets by ending US dollar convertibility to gold, unanchoring exchange rates and ending the norms established at Bretton Woods in 1944.

Anthony Albanese’s Labor government first took office in May 2022, after an election campaign in which Foreign Minister Penny Wong lamented her predecessors had overseen Australia’s “worst foreign ...

Ryan Neelam is Director of the Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program at the Lowy Institute and is Project Lead on the annual flagship publication, the Lowy Institute Poll. Prior to joining the ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping used his 7–10 May state visit to Russia, which included Second World War commemorations in Red Square, to not only signal China’s ongoing alignment with Moscow but to ...

Since before the Trump administration took office, experts have debated the competing schools of foreign policy thought among his top advisers. Two European Council on Foreign Relations experts, Majda ...

Rob Jauncey is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute, with a background in Pacific and international development issues. As the inaugural chief investment officer of the Australian Infrastructure ...

Much of the current discourse on Taiwan centres around one scenario: war. The prevailing imagery involves amphibious landings, missile strikes, and an Indo-Pacific showdown with global ramifications.