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Dewi Fortuna Anwar straddles the world of academia, political activism and government. She is a Research Professor at the Research Center for Politics-Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2P-LIPI) and ...

For all the grand declarations about a global energy transition, the real story has been written not in climate summits but in the quiet, deliberate choices made by the world’s major powers. As Adrian ...

The last time Australia and Indonesia celebrated a security pact – the 1995 Agreement on Maintaining Security (AMS) – it ended poorly. The new Treaty of Common Security echoes that moment, but history ...

The Tuesday firing (or resignation) of president Donald Trump’s third national security advisor, John Bolton, was hardly a surprise. The rift between the two men had been the subject of news pieces ...

The Marshall Islands’ recent decision to use a US dollar-backed stablecoin as one of the mechanisms for delivering a universal basic income (UBI) reflects the practical challenges of providing ...

Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the seemingly inexorable progression of artificial intelligence has accelerated. The surprising release of China’s DeepSeek in January this year startled ...

Understatement of the year, perhaps. But this Alex Russell column in the Financial Times today is well worth a squiz. “The death of the diplomat in Trump’s America” calls out the headline. It’s not ...

Last week, the Australian Critical Infrastructure Security Centre published its Third Annual Risk Review. The report said “geopolitical risk is an ongoing reality for all critical infrastructure ...

In November 2025, the world gathered in the Amazonian city of Belém for COP30, the UN’s annual climate summit. It was the first time in 30 years that the United States was absent from the talks. Todd ...

The Pacific Islands face converging transnational and geopolitical threats, yet existing intelligence exchanges are fragmented and inadequate to meet the scale of these challenges. The Lowy ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to tighten measures related to foreign tourists and residents in Japan. She pledged stricter immigration policies during the Liberal Democratic Party ...