WPS and the response to Covid-19 The United Nations Development Programme and UN Women recently launched the ‘Covid-19 global gender response tracker’. It examines more than 2,500 pandemic-related measures across 206 countries and territories, looking …
There is no single future until it happens, and any effort to envision geopolitics in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic must include a range of possible futures. I suggest five plausible futures in 2030, …
On 4 October, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev delivered a televised speech on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh that was heavy in inflammatory rhetoric but also represented a clear statement on Baku’s objectives. Aliyev laid out a …
The federal government sees the revival of Australian manufacturing as a matter of economic sovereignty, yet the annual national accounts highlight the enormity of the task it confronts. The government is establishing a $1.3 billion …
New Caledonia’s second independence referendum might have delivered a majority for staying with France, but support for independence along ethnic lines strengthened significantly, meaning there can be no viable future for the territory without collaboration …
Army chief Lieutenant General Rick Burr has written to all of Australia’s soldiers to prepare them for the release of a report expected to contain shocking allegations that a small number of troops carried out …
The departure of Abe Shinzo as Japan’s leader opens a new era for Canberra’s quasi-alliance with Tokyo. Australia is going to find out how much its small ‘a’ alliance is based on Abe and how …
It’s Labour Day here in Canberra, so The Strategist team is taking a short break. We’ll be back tomorrow with our usual full schedule of strategic analysis and commentary.
The Australian Army had been focused intensely on rebuilding the cultural and ethical base of its special forces even before shocking allegations emerged that soldiers carried out multiple war crimes in Afghanistan. New South Wales …
In this episode, ASPI visiting fellow Robert Glasser and Strategist editor Anastasia Kapetas discuss climate change and national security in the first conversation in our new series that will put climate change front and centre …
Welcome to the third edition of ‘China military watch’. This month, we take a look at China’s burgeoning missile and space capabilities. Ballistic missiles on Chinese merchant vessels? On 15 September, China successfully launched the …
John Bolton is opinionated, self-righteous and a notorious hawk. By the time he left his job as US national security adviser, his disagreements with his boss, President Donald Trump, had escalated to the point where …
Many in the Australian strategic community were pleased to see the commitments in the government’s defence strategic update to improve the country’s defence industrial capabilities and stockpiles of strategic goods. The accompanying force structure plan …
The latest flare-up in fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces that began in July and escalated in mid-September comes closest to the full-scale conflict that ensued between them in the late 1980s and early 1990s …
Planet A A recent study published in Nature Climate Change has revealed how the surface temperature of the oceans has warmed significantly in recent years, causing extreme weather events and warming the planet even further. …
Covid-19 has made a mockery of the world’s great powers. US President Donald Trump promised to ‘make America great again’, but his administration’s handling of the pandemic has been anything but great. Chinese President Xi …
In early August, the Finance Department issued a revised set of guidelines for Australia’s federal departments and agencies to apply when assessing the economic benefit of procuring high-value goods and services. Given the intense controversy …
Australia is a founding member of the Asian Development Bank and, since 1966, has directly contributed US$8.5 billion in capital subscriptions, as well as US$2.86 billion to special funds. Our annual subscription this year is …
Australians’ daily reliance on digital communications infrastructure—from smartphones and social media platforms to the National Broadband Network—is changing the nature of national security risks. Just like our networked communication patterns, contemporary security risks are becoming …
At the opening of the United Nations General Assembly last week, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the United States and China could ‘split the globe’ into separate trade and financial blocs with diverging internet …
