International Relations

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Chengxin Pan, University of Macau When both US Democrats and Republicans think something is a good idea, it is safe to bet their rare agreement is on countering China….

Reading Time: 5 minutes Author: Editorial Board, ANU You could forgive Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for wondering whether the election he won in May 2022 was a good one to lose. Resurgent inflation…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Allan Gyngell, ANU Australian observers seem to think that the Albanese government’s foreign and national security policies will not differ much from those of its predecessor. The argument makes…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Manoj Joshi, ORF Despite being knocked off its feet by the collapse of the Ghani government of Afghanistan in mid-August 2021, New Delhi has quickly re-established its presence in…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Shafiah F Muhibat, CSIS What is the future of the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP)? Nearly three years after its finalisation, there have been hardly any efforts to…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Sokvy Rim, The Thinker Cambodia The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) achieved a landslide victory in the commune elections in June 2022, gaining 80 per cent of the 11,622 commune…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Kristi Govella, German Marshall Fund 2022 was expected to be a defining year for Japanese security policy even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Public debates and internal negotiations…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Seungjoo Lee, Chung-Ang University Strategic competition between the United States and China has dramatically revealed the vulnerabilities of the ideological and institutional foundations of globalisation. The Biden administration is…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Zongyuan Zoe Liu, CFR When the inaugural BRIC summit took place in 2009, it was a moment of relative triumph for its members. While the West dealt with the…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Authors: Aidan Arasasingham and Emily Benson, CSIS On 23 May 2022, US President Joe Biden and 12 regional counterparts officially launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF). After almost…