Diplomacy & International Relations

Achieving Food Security in Tunisia: What Prospects Lie Ahead? Challenges and Opportunities (Isabelle Tsakok – Policy Center for the New South)

Tunisia’s stagnant growth since the Jasmine Revolution (2011) illustrates that political democracy, when not anchored in economic democracy, is fragile at best. Economic democracy...

The Sahara Conflict and International Law: Reviewing the Legal Debate from an Integrated Perspective (El Mostafa Rezrazi – Policy Center for the New South)

In his thought-provoking book, The Sahara Conflict and International Law: Reviewing the Legal Debate from an Integrated Perspective, Pr. Matsumoto Shoji embarks on an...

What else we could do with the money: AUKUS Plan Bs from a CSBA exercise (Toshi Yoshihara, Casey Nicastro – The Strategist)

Sceptics of AUKUS Pillar 1, the nuclear-submarine element of the Australian-UK-US defence technology partnership, have called on the Australian government to go for a...

European Defence Fund funnels money to drones, hypersonic defense, AI (Rudy Ruitenberg – Defense News)

The European Union’s executive arm picked 62 defense projects for a combined €910 million ($1 billion) in financing in the latest funding round by...

Trump 2.0 Will Escalate the Contest for Military AI Supremacy (Kyle Hiebert – Centre for International Governance Innovation)

Days after re-entering the White House, Donald Trump tore up Joe Biden’s directives on the US government’s oversight and use of artificial intelligence (AI)....

Convergence and divergence in Australia and Southeast Asia’s economic security approaches (Hanh Nguyen – East Asia Forum)

Australia sees Southeast Asia as a vital partner for economic growth, focusing on areas such as agriculture, critical minerals and energy transition. Despite shared...

Seismic opportunity for Myanmar as earthquake exposes deeper wounds (Win Maw – East Asia Forum)

(Win Maw - East Asia Forum) A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on 28 March 2025, deepening an already dire humanitarian crisis after years...

Making sense of Trump’s tariffs (Peter Warr – East Asia Forum)

US President Donald Trump's Liberation Day tariffs significantly undermined business certainty and trust in the United States as a trading partner. To respond effectively,...

Tariffs and terrorism are derailing China- India rapprochement (Chietigj Bajpaee – The Interpreter)

India’s nascent rapprochement with China is being derailed by two Ts: tariffs and terrorism. When both countries announced their border agreement in October last...

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