Can Scott Morrison deliver on climate change in Tuvalu – or is his Pacific ‘step up’ doomed?
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Last week’s Pacific Islands Forum comes at an important time in the overall trajectory of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s very… Read More
2019
Narendra Modi’s nudge diplomacy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech last week from the ramparts of the Red Fort in New Delhi to mark India’s Independence Day carefully delineated his… Read More
Can the Philippines and Australia elevate their partnership to a strategic level?
Human rights concerns may limit cooperation, but the cyber domain is an area for collaboration. Before his departure for Japan to attend the highly-anticipated… Read More
Implications of the US exit from the INF Treaty
The Trump administration’s withdrawal of the US from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty earlier this month is the culmination of an extended period of shadow… Read More
Why did the Modi government take the risk of revoking Kashmir’s special status?
IAN HALL | On 5 August, Narendra Modi’s newly reelected government announced that it was revoking Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which… Read More
Regional wrap
The past fortnight was marked by not one but two history-defining international events in different theatres of the Indo-Pacific: one in South Asia and the… Read More
Trilateral dialogue on leadership, partnership and ASEAN centrality in the Indo-Pacific
On 6 August 2019 the Griffith Asia Institute hosted the third Australia-Japan-India Trilateral with the generous support of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the… Read More
Morrison’s moment of truth in the Pacific
WESLEY MORGAN | Can Australia’s prime minister convince the leaders of Pacific Island countries that he is serious… Read More
The China-Trump trade war has spread to Australia. We’re now at risk of global currency war
HUI FENG | When US President Donald Trump announced via Twitter on Friday that he was slapping tariffs on an extra US$300 billion of… Read More
Social mobilisation in a contested environment
PETER LAYTON | As geostrategic circumstances darken, there’s new interest in military mobilisation. For Australia, that involves moving the Australian Defence Force beyond its… Read More
