I was 20 years old when the School Strikes for Climate were at their peak in 2019. It was a thrilling time to be a young person. The energy was radical and exciting. We were seeing our future being ...

Southeast Asia is home to some of the most dynamic and fast‑growing economies in the world. Yet the region continues to face significant development challenges, including poverty, limited access to ...

On The Director’s Chair, Michael Fullilove - Executive Director of the Lowy Institute speaks with political leaders and policy makers about their lives, their careers, and their views on the world. In ...

For many scholars of international relations, the orthodoxy of the realist approach – much like “market–based” approaches in economics – has created a mistaken belief that the play-off of interests, ...

“This is going to be great television … I will say that.” This is how the American president summed up the conclusion of the most fractious meeting to have occurred in front of journalists between an ...

China has sent Australia a message in recent days about the strength of its rapidly growing naval fleet, already the largest in the world by numbers. But the reaction in Australia to the flotilla of ...

The launch of Waterworth, Meta’s sprawling 50,000-kilometre submarine cable system, longer than the Earth’s circumference, arrives cloaked in the language of progress. The use of 24 fibre pairs, far ...

The Interpreter features daily commentary and analysis on international issues. The site is edited by Daniel Flitton and research editor Clare Caldwell, along with founding editor Sam Roggeveen. In ...

In 2015, when then Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced an additional week of paid leave for fathers during a National Day Rally speech, he jested, “Do not go and play golf, please use ...

For several years, the US security establishment appeared fixated on the year 2027 as the deadline set by Xi Jinping to compel Taiwan with military force. First raised by then-INDOPACOM commander ...

A special Interpreter series ahead of International Women’s Day, 2025, on 8 March. Just two weeks later, at the unveiling of the Australia-Southeast Asia Regional Development Partnership Plan (DPP), ...

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