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Australia and South Korea: leveraging the strategic potential of cooperation in critical technologies

Stepping up military support to humanitarian assistance in the Pacific

Preventing and countering violent extremism in Africa: mining and Australia’s interests

Australia has commercial and strategic interests in helping to prevent and counter violent extremism in Africa. Australian mining companies are engaged across the continent in Mali, Burkina Faso, Kenya and many other countries where there have been high-profile terrorist attacks and kidnappings of foreign nationals, including Australians. Those threats already affect the way Australian mining […]

Using open-source AI, sophisticated cyber ops will proliferate

Open-source AI models are on track to disrupt the cyber security paradigm.

China is buying less from developed countries, but not Australia

Australia’s exports to China have not returned to the peaks before the Chinese authorities started imposing discriminatory bans, but they are higher than five years ago, unlike China’s imports from every other major advanced economy. Although there is no official campaign to curb access of western exporters to Chinese markets, there has been a marked shift […]

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Chief defence scientist: We must get emerging technologies into the hands of our war fighters faster

For chief defence scientist Tanya Monro, the concept of ‘minimum viable capability’

Governing AI in the global disorder

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that finding consensus on anything in the international system is difficult at the best of times…

India in the Quad: insider or outlier?

The Raisina Dialogue, India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics, was held from 21 to 23 February this year…

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The geopolitics of water: how the Brahmaputra River could shape India–China security competition

This report assesses the geopolitical impact of a possible dam…
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Beware mesmerisation by China’s spell

In the lexicon of Japan's diplomacy, there is a phrase, ‘China…
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Living off the land: the silent cyber threat to critical infrastructure

Cyber defences can be alert to malware. It’s much harder…
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India is deluding itself: there’s no multipolar world

Despite India's ardent wish, the world is nowhere close to…
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Australia needs a plan for a Chinese navy presence in the Indian Ocean

Australia's defence planners should carefully weigh the risks…
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Cyber security means sticking with trusted, not any, providers

The Crowdstrike software outage disrupted airlines, banks,…
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Third plenum exits show trust still an issue for Xi

The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party has accepted…
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Australia’s inaction as Chinese companies enable Russia’s aggression

There’s no end in sight to the nightmare of Russia’s assault…
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Keep Britain east of Suez, Mr Healey

John Healey, the secretary of state for defence in Britain’s…
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Australia and Japan should consider a security division-of-labour in the Pacific

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong will represent Australia…
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Safeguarding Australia’s sensitive academic research

The advent of the AUKUS partnership heralds a transformative…
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Recognising Somaliland would be in Australia’s interest

Australia should recognise Somaliland, a territory that is…
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Devolved data centre decisions: Opportunities for reform?

Data has been referred to as the ‘new oil’ or ‘new gold’,…
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#WhatsHappeningInThailand: the power dynamics of Thailand’s digital activism

Thailand's political discourse throughout the past decade has…
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The strategic costs of adopting technology

At the recent Australian e-commerce summit, Prime Minister…
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Advancing digital sovereignty in northern Australia

To ensure the digital sovereignty of communities in northern…
Australian Foreign Affairs: How Covid-19 & cyberspace are changing spycraft

Australian Foreign Affairs: How Covid-19 & cyberspace are changing spycraft

ASPI's Danielle Cave probes how data and technology have…
US-China tension can give way to India-Australia partnerships on critical technology – opinion piece

US-China tension can give way to India-Australia partnerships on critical technology – opinion piece

Read an opinion piece written by ASPI’s Danielle Cave, Jocelinn…
Indo-Pacific cooperation on critical technologies – launch of ASPI-ORF report

Indo-Pacific cooperation on critical technologies – launch of ASPI-ORF report

On 15 October 2020 India’s Observer Research Foundation (ORF)…
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Critical technologies and the Indo-Pacific: A new India-Australia partnership

This report by ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre and…
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Snapshot of a shadow war

The rapid escalation in the long-running conflict between Azerbaijan…
STEM career pathways for the Indigenous Australian community

STEM career pathways for the Indigenous Australian community

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has been awarded…
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Cybercrime, deterrence and evading attack

Australia’s 2020 cybersecurity strategy says the government…
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Biodata and biotechnology: Opportunity and challenges for Australia

This new ASPI report canvasses the extraordinary recent developments…

Australia can help fill the gap in the US semiconductor supply chain

Semiconductors are at the centre of the new cold war. US President…

Who’s going to build Australia’s nuclear submarines?

Vice Admiral William Joseph Houston is a thoughtful and experienced…

AUSMIN 2022: defence capability

As Australia’s foreign and defence ministers and the US secretaries…

US–Australia information sharing: a self-inflicted Achilles’ heel

The AUKUS agreement demonstrates how the deteriorating strategic…

Making the most of AUKUS

Australia is in style inside the Washington beltway. While…

Opportunities for Australia in Biden’s national security strategy

It’s almost clichéd to begin any discussion of geostrategic…

Balancing the offensive and defensive in the AUKUS innovation agenda 

Intensifying geopolitical competition is having an adverse…

Policy, Guns and Money: Is AUKUS too big to fail?

‘Too big to fail.’ How’s that for a bit of pressure on…

Whoever its PM, the UK is a vital partner for Australia

Later today, either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will be declared…

Can a new conventional submarine smooth Australia’s transition to a nuclear-powered fleet?

The government has announced a defence strategic review to…

How to bridge the capability gap in Australia’s transition to nuclear-powered submarines

In a previous piece, we examined the broad schedule of Australia’s…

Australia’s transition to nuclear-powered submarines could run into the 2060s

In our most recent article, we argued that the Australian government…
ASPI to open an office in Washington DC

ASPI to open an office in Washington DC

Today the Minister for Defence, the Hon Peter Dutton, MP announced that…
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ANZUS at 70: the past, present and future of the alliance

The ANZUS Treaty was signed on 1 September 1951 in San Francisco.…
US and Australia must deepen defence cooperation on climate security

US and Australia must deepen defence cooperation on climate security

Robert Glasser and Erin Sikorsky write on recent climate-driven…
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To deter the PRC …

This Strategic Insights report is the first in a series of essays,…
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Stronger Together: US force posture in Australia’s north—a US perspective on Australia’s strategic geography

Stronger together: US force posture in Australia’s north—a…
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North of 26 degrees south and the security of Australia: views from The Strategist

North of 26° south and the security of Australia’, a new…
Ask ASPI – Trump’s Russia Problem

Ask ASPI – Trump’s Russia Problem

In this Ask ASPI episode, Renee Jones talks to Stephen Loosley about…
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America’s ‘Maginot Line’: a study of static border security in an age of agile and innovative threats

Borders and border security are once again becoming increasingly…
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Preserving the knowledge edge: Surveillance cooperation and the US–Australia alliance in Asia

The US–Australia alliance is the bedrock of Australia’s…
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Special Report Issue 43 – More than good deeds: Disaster risk management and Australian, Japanese and US Defence forces

This report, authored by Athol Yates and Anthony Bergin, suggests…
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The QDR: a future of hybrid warfare?

The latest formal statement of US defence policy, the QDR (Quadrennial…
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The Obama administration and US strategic policy

This Policy Analysis, authored by Rod Lyon and Kellie Kayser,…