The Philippines is poised to become strategically more important to Australia, leading to opportunities for intensified defence cooperation. At a…
Five Eyes is the oldest and most prominent intelligence alliance in the world. But does Australia’s membership in the alliance…
PETER LAYTON | Many books on Australian defence simply repeat old beliefs. This valuable new work does not, instead breaking…
After the 2008-2009 GFC, major powers (including the United States and China) were either reinvigorating existing institutions or initiating new…
PETER LAYTON | The Trump administration has embraced a new, reductionist approach to managing its alliances. James Mattis, on his…
Officials from both Canberra and Jakarta must have been privately relieved last night. The first official visit to Australia by…
PETER LAYTON | For the first time Australia now has two senior ministers in the Defence portfolio, with Marise Payne…
PETER LAYTON | Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has laid out some tough parameters for her newly commissioned White…
PETER LAYTON | There’s no shortage of dark, pessimistic visions out there, including a revisionist Russia, an assertive China, the…
PETER LAYTON | Security trumps economics, or so the Ausgrid saga seems to have taught us. But maybe this framing…
