It is unlikely that Ream Naval Base in Cambodia will be a Chinese military base or outpost such as the facility in Djibouti fully operated by the People’s Liberation Army. However, China could gain ...

Linking decarbonisation with trade policy could offer an alternative to rising protectionism. World leaders must consider what a positive, alternative vision of international trade could entail (Getty ...

The government wants to create a new parliamentary joint committee with a special focus on defence oversight. The aim, in the words of Assistant Minister for Defence Peter Khalil last week when ...

Until his retirement from government this year, Nick Rasmussen has worked in counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism under successive Republican and Democratic administrations in the United ...

The claim that the twenty-first century will be Asian, just as the twentieth century was American, is often made but seldom examined. Yet this axiom is not just simplistic, it could also encourage the ...

Realists tend not to be born apologists. So, it is perhaps telling that Patrick Porter’s punchy, “bite-sized defence of realism”, How to Survive a Hostile World, is strewn with qualifications and ...

I write as someone who has spent decades in the guts of Defence, technology, and government. Not as a cheerleader for shiny toys, nor as an apologist for bureaucratic drift. Artificial intelligence is ...

Conflict risks are increasing. The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) notes that “2024 marked a historic peak … with 61 active conflicts across 36 countries – the highest number recorded since 1946” ...

The recent Cambodia–Thailand border skirmishes ended with leaders meeting face to face, producing a ceasefire agreement. Now picture the next round of clashes with loitering munitions and ground ...

Vietnam has transformed itself at a rapid clip from one of the poorest countries in the world in the late 1980s to a lower middle-income country. More recently, it has been the most obvious ...

The big problems facing most countries today are not ones they can solve by themselves. Climate change needs collective action as climate is a global common. The oceans and space are also global ...