Dmitri Alperovitch is the author of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century. In this Lowy Institute Conversation, he talks with Sam Roggeveen about China’s ...

Afghanistan for years, focusing on a wide range of topics, including politics, conflict, human rights, and environmental issues. He holds a Master’s degree in International Development from Yeungnam ...

The Taliban has long held international energy ambitions. Plans to build a $10 billion gas pipeline connecting Turkmenistan, ...

In the past 24 hours, nearly 3000 pagers carried by members of the terrorist group Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon. This audacious and imaginative attack on Hezbollah killed at least nine people and ...

New York City is gearing up for the next United Nations General Assembly, but the gathered diplomats wandering the halls of UN headquarters ahead of the leaders arriving next week are showing little ...

Economic statecraft refers to a state’s use of economic policy instruments to achieve foreign policy objectives. Australia uses various tools of economic statecraft – including development assistance, ...

Quad countries are right. The region does not want a China-centred order. Yet, the Quad’s language and that of its member countries – promoting a “free and open Indo-Pacific” – does not resonate with ...

Sweden also has official minority languages such as Finnish and Sámi, which are prominent in certain geographic areas. These ...

South Korea must be careful not to politicise high-level defections from the North. By politicising these defections in a democracy-versus-autocracy binary, the Yoon administration is exaggerating the ...