National affairs
12 November 2024
Fifty-six years later, a soldier finally receives his Victoria Cross. Was it all a matter of timing?
Essays & reportage
21 October 2024
Can the “brainy and agile” Penny Wong counter the power of US-centric defence and security agencies?
Books & arts
19 September 2024
The great geopolitical struggle of our time, cold war 2.0, is cyber war and proxy war and tech war, economic face-off and nuclear brinkmanship
National affairs
17 September 2024
The government wants to rule a line under criminal behaviour in the military, but internal resistance remains strong
National affairs
23 August 2024
Rather than American or Chinese ascendancy in Asia, we’re likely to be facing a “long in-between.” Where does that leave AUKUS?
Books & arts
11 July 2024
A nation with its own continent looks at the world via geography and culture
Books & arts
3 July 2024
Australia is sleepwalking into a strategic and logistical mess
Books & arts
28 March 2024
An eighty-year retrospective from the American academic who changed the way nations attract and argue
National affairs
19 March 2024
There is an alternative, but the debate looks like taking some time to shift
National affairs
8 September 2023
Australia’s foreign policy is falling victim to domestic conflicts between conservatism and social democracy
Books & arts
26 August 2023
A seasoned analyst outlines the strategy Australia should have debated before the latest bout of defence spending
National affairs
31 July 2023
A group of Japanese foreign policy experts has a message for the Australian government
National affairs
27 June 2023
Signs suggest the warming of Australia–China relations has slowed to a glacial pace
Books & arts
5 June 2023
The authorised history of Australia’s role in East Timor’s 1999–2000 crisis reveals as much about Canberra as it does about Dili
National affairs
4 May 2023
The government’s strategic review has left the commentariat puzzled
National affairs
14 March 2023
The AUKUS submarine announcement has immediately raised thorny questions about cost, timing and design
National affairs
19 January 2023
Of all Scott Morrison’s poorly conceived initiatives, why has Labor stuck with AUKUS and its nuclear-powered submarines?
National affairs
14 September 2022
Russia’s disastrous miscalculations in Ukraine show why an invasion of Taiwan would be a grave mistake
Essays & reportage
7 September 2022
Has the Australian Strategic Policy Institute been pushed off course by the China hawks?
National affairs
23 September 2021
The AUKUS alliance represents a dramatic step away from multilateral diplomacy. Or is it a first step towards an independent nuclear deterrent?
National affairs
19 September 2021
Has Australia committed itself to going to war over Taiwan? (And other awkward questions about this week’s submarine switch)
From the archive
20 August 2021
An independent from South Australia is exerting outsized influence in Canberra
National affairs
9 July 2021
Being an effective defence minister will require much more than Peter Dutton’s impulse to hang tough
National affairs
7 May 2021
Foreign influence laws are highlighting the shortcomings of Australia’s rules for lobbyists
National affairs
30 April 2021
And what would that mean for Australia?
National affairs
18 November 2020
A new defence agreement with Japan raises as many questions as it answers
National affairs
12 November 2020
With the federal government appointing a special war crimes prosecutor, it’s time to confront broader questions about armed interventions
Books & arts
27 October 2020
Books | Silence may be golden, says Madeleine Albright, but it won’t win many arguments
International
9 September 2020
The Japanese defence minister’s aspiration to join the Five Eyes agreement is seen as too far, too fast among members
National affairs
6 July 2020
The government should focus less on war preparation and more on war prevention