Fidelis Leite Magalhães is president of Alternative Futures-Institute of Politics and International Affairs (IPIA), a think tank based in Timor-Leste. He is a political economist and public policy ...

After attending this month's Munich Security Conference, the Institute's Hervé Lemahieu speaks with Lydia Khalil about the Trump administration’s diplomatic cavalry charge on Europe, and lessons for ...

“This is going to be great television … I will say that.” This is how the American president summed up the conclusion of the most fractious meeting to have occurred in front of journalists between an ...

When gauging the implications of Trump 2.0 for Australia, experts regularly look to draw insight from Canada’s recent interactions with the United States. After all, as Sam Roggeveen notes, there is a ...

First, it was Japan that was negotiating Reciprocal Access Agreements (RAA) with partner nations such as Australia, the United Kingdom, and others. Now, the Philippines has followed suit with Visiting ...

The control of land has a physical, psychological, and symbolic dimension to populations. “Land control” primarily acts as a tool to secure that from where our political and economic power emanates.

The speech by US Vice President JD Vance at the recent Munich Security Conference delivered a blistering critique of the European project and its supposed failings. More important than the detail of ...

Faced with the collapse of the treasured old Atlanticist certainties, Merz’s priority will be to create unity in Europe. Though the election was strikingly – astonishingly – inward looking, Merz’s ...

How should Australia respond to Chinese warships’ live fire?

Three years ago, Russian forces moved across the Ukrainian northern, eastern and southern frontiers, as well as in a coordinated series of missile and air assault actions, in the hope of a short, ...

In the high-stakes race to master potentially game-changing technologies, one field receives substantially less attention: quantum computing. This emerging field is a major front in the US-China tech ...

Singapore relations with the United States were built on a foundation of strong defence ties rooted in shared values and mutual interests – a stable rule-based global order and multilateralism. In the ...