For 80 years, there was an expectation that when international crises threatened to spiral into war, the United Nations would be at the centre of efforts to prevent it. Yet during the recent Middle East …
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The Australia–Japan quasi-alliance is not a hedge against US unreliability, nor should it be seen in purely bilateral terms. Rather, it is emblematic of a broader pattern I call ‘stewarding’, in which core US allies …
International rules still matter. That was the common theme at this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, particularly for Indo-Pacific nations. Australia’s deputy prime minister and defence minister, Richard Marles, told the conference, ‘The international rules-based …
If BRICS can assemble an economic and political coalition with strategic intent, why shouldn’t the Commonwealth countries? This is the hard question Australia and its allies should be asking themselves, as existing institutions fail to …
Alexander Stubb has had a busy two years. Since being inaugurated as Finland’s president in March 2024, he has become one of Europe’s most visible leaders, shuttling between negotiations in Brussels, Davos, Kyiv and Washington, …