Google ‘Europe’ and ‘crisis’ and you’ll turn up more than 800 million results. So often do the two terms appear together that they might as well be a compound noun. With each new eurocrisis, commentators wring …
Even the most hard-headed of strategic analysts would have to concede that we are now facing a direct and very real threat to our individual and collective security of a sort and severity that we …
Barely a month ago, China was in the grip of the coronavirus. Thousands of new infections were confirmed every day. Hospitals were overwhelmed. People were dying by the hundreds. People couldn’t leave their homes. But …
Like the end-of-the-world scenario from Nevil Shute’s futuristic novel On the beach, a feeling of impending desolation seems to hang over Indonesia as it waits for what health experts fear may be a slowly-ticking coronavirus …
Over the past week, Covid-19 has upended our traditional assumptions about how we work and what services are critical, and has shone a spotlight on the importance of communication networks. Nationally, our concept of what …
Less than five months after the first documented case of the Covid-19 coronavirus, infections exceed 500,000 globally, with nearly 24,000 deaths. This pandemic is devastating societies and economies all over the world, but Africa stands …
This article is part of a series on women, peace and security that The Strategist is publishing in recognition of International Women’s Day. After more than three decades of research and advocacy, there’s increasing recognition of the …
The coronavirus pandemic is a fast-moving crisis, but there are many opportunities for long-term investments that will pay off over its duration. The Australian government should immediately create a body to identify, lead, fund and …
In this episode, ASPI’s Lisa Sharland speaks to human rights and women’s rights advocate Louise Allen about her recent ASPI report, Australia’s implementation of women, peace and security: Promoting regional security. After that, Renee DiResta, …
Australian hospitals are running short of medical gear and those shortages will worsen. Masks, gloves, gowns, cleaning equipment and ventilators are just the obvious ones. We need to get creative urgently, and we can. In …
The beat Crime rates fall during Covid-19 pandemic Police forces are reporting a fall in crime as cities around the world go into lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus. New York City reported a …
An unprecedented threat demands an unprecedented response. Rarely, if ever, have governments had to shift into crisis-management mode as quickly as they have in the past few weeks. So far, the focus has been on …
It’s easy to focus inwards during times like this. Families take care of loved ones and governments take care of their people. But another crisis created by the novel coronavirus is looming. Over the coming …
Some confusion has emerged (see here and here, for example) over strategic strike, where a threat to an adversary’s key war-making assets produces a deterrent effect, and tactical strike, where an effect is sought on …
Papua New Guinea faces its most critical economic, fiscal and social crisis since independence in 1975. This dangerous mix is largely unrelated to the coronavirus sweeping the world, despite attempts by some PNG leaders to …
To look forward, without unseemly guesswork, requires an element of looking back. I am not a virologist or epidemiologist; my 38 years in specialist medical practice was as a consultant general physician and diagnostician. Twice …
Against the backdrop of an escalating war of words between Washington and Beijing, and the Chinese Communist Party’s broader campaign to rewrite the history of the Covid-19 outbreak, the attempts by multiple Chinese diplomats to …
Sea state The US Navy has sent a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to test a Royal Australian Navy task group’s air defences. The deployment and exercise were part of the RAN’s fleet certification period. …
The frenzy outside a local butcher’s shop was electric, as sharp-elbowed women forced their way through the door, where dozens were already packed to the counter thrusting their purses, seeking the butcher’s attention. One pushed …
The coronavirus sweeping Australia and the rest of the world will reshape our ways of life for many months, if not years. It has already changed what we can do, who we can spend time …