Sana Yousaf, a 17-year-old Pakistani TikTok creator, was shot and killed this month by a man whose advances she had reportedly declined. With nearly a million followers, Sana’s online presence made ...

That State is on the Trump administration’s radar is not a surprise given the experience of the first Trump presidency. In the first few weeks of 2017, a pseudo-department with hired outsiders was ...

This year’s poll shows that Australians have been quick to realise that America’s language on “the China challenge” in the Pacific is not matched by its actions. The contradictions, or, more ...

A new global logic is emerging. Not expansion, but internal enhancement. This turn inward may at first glance resemble the return of classical spheres of influence. But beneath the surface lies an ...

In particular, Russia has been careful not to allow itself to be boxed in to supporting Iran but instead sought to preserve room for manoeuvre. While Moscow’s relations with Tehran have certainly ...

Every year the Lowy Institute Poll takes the heartbeat of the nation to reveal what Australians think about big international questions and their nation’s place in the world, with the latest edition ...

Australia has long neglected the Indian Ocean. Canberra historically largely depended upon allies, first Britain and then the United States, to secure its interests in the Indian Ocean. Yet Asia’s ...

Australia’s democratic stability makes it a welcome outlier as the state of global democracy has grown more discouraging with each passing year. The past two and a half decades have been marked by a ...

According to the 2024 National Defence Strategy, the ADF’s overarching strategic objectives are to deter actions against Australia’s interests, shape its strategic environment, and respond with ...

Amid conflict and global disorder, Australians’ feelings of safety and economic optimism have fallen to their lowest levels in the 21-year history of the Lowy Institute Poll.Only 51 per cent of ...

Many developed countries have a specific allocation in their international aid program for partnerships to build workers’ organisations and trade unions. A good, albeit historic, example is USAID’s ...

Ramita is the co-editor of two volumes, Making of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity and Singapore and Sri Lanka at 50: Perspectives from Sri Lanka. She has also contributed a chapter ...