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The cost of Defence: ASPI Defence Budget Brief 2025-2026

Building national preparedness: A road map for Australia and what we should learn from Finland

Shifting the needle: Making Australia’s research security ecosystem work smarter

Since 2018, the Australian Government has made serious strides in countering espionage and foreign interference, including introducing policy and legislative reforms aimed at protecting the research and university sector. That was necessary. Foreign states have actively targeted Australia’s research ecosystem—seeking to influence research agendas, extract sensitive information and exploit institutional vulnerabilities. However, the threat landscape […]

North of 26 degrees south and the security of Australia: views from The Strategist, Volume 11

The Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre’s latest report, North of 26 degrees south and the security of Australia: views from The Strategist, Volume 11, contains articles published in ASPI’s The Strategist over the last six months. Expanding on previous volumes, this edition introduces thematic chapters focused on a range of subjects relevant to northern Australia. […]

DeepSeek is a modern Sputnik moment for West

The release of China’s latest DeepSeek artificial intelligence…

As Trump returns, Sino-Indian relations are changing

Weeks before his return to the White House, US President-elect…

The TikTok boomerang

Few predicted that TikTok users in the United States would…

China’s other new combat aircraft: a crewed fighter, maybe for aircraft carriers

Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group’s J-36 scooped up most of…

China’s secretive build-up presents Trump with a difficult nuclear challenge

After disappearing from debate over the last couple of decades,…

Will Trump crack the mystery of Covid-19’s origin?

The Covid-19 pandemic killed an estimated 7.1 million people…

The US, South Korea and Japan should work together on regional challenges

  With Donald Trump’s return to the presidency now…

Limited quarantine is China’s likely first move in subduing Taiwan

The West had better think carefully about how it would handle…

Gradually, then suddenly: in geopolitics, decades can happen in weeks

Ernest Hemingway wrote in The Sun Also Rises (1926) that bankruptcy…

In dealing with China, Trump just needs to step up his first-term approach

As in his first term, Donald Trump should continue a resolute…

China takes aim at Philippine democracy

In April 2024, a spokesperson for former Philippine president…

BRICS is hardly a new fulcrum of world politics

One question that 2025 may begin to answer is whether the BRICS…

DeepSeek is a modern Sputnik moment for West

The release of China’s latest DeepSeek artificial intelligence…

As Trump returns, Sino-Indian relations are changing

Weeks before his return to the White House, US President-elect…

The TikTok boomerang

Few predicted that TikTok users in the United States would…

China’s other new combat aircraft: a crewed fighter, maybe for aircraft carriers

Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group’s J-36 scooped up most of…

China’s secretive build-up presents Trump with a difficult nuclear challenge

After disappearing from debate over the last couple of decades,…

Will Trump crack the mystery of Covid-19’s origin?

The Covid-19 pandemic killed an estimated 7.1 million people…

The US, South Korea and Japan should work together on regional challenges

  With Donald Trump’s return to the presidency now…

Limited quarantine is China’s likely first move in subduing Taiwan

The West had better think carefully about how it would handle…

Gradually, then suddenly: in geopolitics, decades can happen in weeks

Ernest Hemingway wrote in The Sun Also Rises (1926) that bankruptcy…

In dealing with China, Trump just needs to step up his first-term approach

As in his first term, Donald Trump should continue a resolute…

China takes aim at Philippine democracy

In April 2024, a spokesperson for former Philippine president…

BRICS is hardly a new fulcrum of world politics

One question that 2025 may begin to answer is whether the BRICS…
Benchmarking critical technologies - static bannerLeslie Sharpe.

Benchmarking critical technologies

Building an evidence base for an informed critical technologies…
Cover image: Central computer processor with Chinese flag, iStockphoto/anita2020.https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/central-computer-processor-with-chinese-flag-3d-render-gm1309263730-399039535

Critical infrastructure legislation should also set the parameters of cognitive security

With the heightened threats in cyberspace, the Australian government…

ASPI’s decades: Cyberattacks, deep fakes and the quantum revolution

ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series…
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Australia well placed to turbocharge its strategic tech capability

Last week’s surprise AUKUS announcement by the United States,…
An informed and independent voice: ASPI, 2001-2021 - static banner

An informed and independent voice: ASPI, 2001-2021

To mark its establishment in August 2001, the Australian Strategic…
Buying and selling extremism - static bannerClaudia Chinyere Akole 2021

Buying and selling extremism

New funding opportunities in the right-wing extremist online…
Influence for hire. The Asia-Pacific’s online shadow economy - static banner‘Illustration by Wes Mountain, commissioned by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s International Cyber Policy Centre.

Influence for hire. The Asia-Pacific’s online shadow economy

The Asia-Pacific’s online shadow economy What’s the problem? It’s…
Datacentre Cables

Calling out China a fraught but necessary step

Australia’s strategic environment is changing rapidly. Once…
Exfiltrate, encrypt, extort - static bannerProduced by Jake Moody of Leading Hand Design

Exfiltrate, encrypt, extort

The global rise of ransomware and Australia’s policy options What’s…

Taming the cyber wild west

During the Cold War, summit meetings between the United States…

Mapping China’s Technology Giants: Covid-19, supply chains and strategic competition

Mapping China’s Technology Giants is a multi-year project…
Benchmarking critical technologies - static bannerLeslie Sharpe.

Benchmarking critical technologies

Building an evidence base for an informed critical technologies…
Cover image: Central computer processor with Chinese flag, iStockphoto/anita2020.https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/central-computer-processor-with-chinese-flag-3d-render-gm1309263730-399039535

Critical infrastructure legislation should also set the parameters of cognitive security

With the heightened threats in cyberspace, the Australian government…

ASPI’s decades: Cyberattacks, deep fakes and the quantum revolution

ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series…
Generic circuit board

Australia well placed to turbocharge its strategic tech capability

Last week’s surprise AUKUS announcement by the United States,…
An informed and independent voice: ASPI, 2001-2021 - static banner

An informed and independent voice: ASPI, 2001-2021

To mark its establishment in August 2001, the Australian Strategic…
Buying and selling extremism - static bannerClaudia Chinyere Akole 2021

Buying and selling extremism

New funding opportunities in the right-wing extremist online…
Influence for hire. The Asia-Pacific’s online shadow economy - static banner‘Illustration by Wes Mountain, commissioned by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s International Cyber Policy Centre.

Influence for hire. The Asia-Pacific’s online shadow economy

The Asia-Pacific’s online shadow economy What’s the problem? It’s…
Datacentre Cables

Calling out China a fraught but necessary step

Australia’s strategic environment is changing rapidly. Once…
Exfiltrate, encrypt, extort - static bannerProduced by Jake Moody of Leading Hand Design

Exfiltrate, encrypt, extort

The global rise of ransomware and Australia’s policy options What’s…

Taming the cyber wild west

During the Cold War, summit meetings between the United States…

Mapping China’s Technology Giants: Covid-19, supply chains and strategic competition

Mapping China’s Technology Giants is a multi-year project…

The demands of AUKUS

Last week’s announcement of the ‘optimal pathway’ for…

Policy, Guns and Money: AUKUS challenges and opportunities

In this special episode, ASPI Executive Director Justin Bassi…

AUKUS Trilateral Initiative

On the 20th and 21st of March, ASPI DC convened with the…

Policy, Guns and Money: Diving into the AUKUS submarine announcement

After the long-awaited AUKUS submarine announcement, ASPI director…

Iain MacGillivray was interviewed by War on the Rocks

On March 14th, ASPI DC Analyst, Iain MacGillivray was interviewed…

AUKUS binds Britain to Australia and a free and open Indo-Pacific

It’s been a big day for Australia–UK relations. Sandwiched…

AUKUS submarines will strengthen Australia’s sovereignty

The formal unveiling of the AUKUS plan is still a few days…

ASPI DC provide panel at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Centre

On March 7th, ASPI DC Director, Mark Watson, Senior Analyst,…

US export rules need major reform if AUKUS is to succeed

The rapidly deteriorating strategic environment has led Australia…

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…

The demands of AUKUS

Last week’s announcement of the ‘optimal pathway’ for…

Policy, Guns and Money: AUKUS challenges and opportunities

In this special episode, ASPI Executive Director Justin Bassi…

AUKUS Trilateral Initiative

On the 20th and 21st of March, ASPI DC convened with the…

Policy, Guns and Money: Diving into the AUKUS submarine announcement

After the long-awaited AUKUS submarine announcement, ASPI director…

Iain MacGillivray was interviewed by War on the Rocks

On March 14th, ASPI DC Analyst, Iain MacGillivray was interviewed…

AUKUS binds Britain to Australia and a free and open Indo-Pacific

It’s been a big day for Australia–UK relations. Sandwiched…

AUKUS submarines will strengthen Australia’s sovereignty

The formal unveiling of the AUKUS plan is still a few days…

ASPI DC provide panel at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Centre

On March 7th, ASPI DC Director, Mark Watson, Senior Analyst,…

US export rules need major reform if AUKUS is to succeed

The rapidly deteriorating strategic environment has led Australia…

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…