Southeast Asian governments are failing to respond as a bloc to the severe disruption in oil, gas and commercial shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam have each moved to …
China and Iran have gradually deepened research ties in dual-use and emerging technologies over the past 15 years, the latest update to ASPI’s China Defence Universities Tracker (CDUT) shows. The scale of this collaboration is …
On New Year’s Eve in 1977, US president Jimmy Carter hailed Iran as ‘an island of stability in one of the more troubled regions of the world’, which he credited to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s …
Iran has suffered greatly from US bombing, but it has been outmanoeuvring the superpower in the information domain. Each of the two countries is using internet culture against the other during hostilities that began on …
Australia’s reliance on imported urea is a clear strategic weakness that is allowing the instability in the Gulf region to directly affect our food production, transport systems and economic stability. Establishing a system that tracked …




