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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. […]

Worlds apart: John McCain and Angela Merkel

John McCain’s speech in Sydney this week offered an emotionally-appealing…

China’s imperial overreach

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s tenure has been marked by high…

China’s Belt and Road promise, Asia’s fear and greed

Beijing’s great celebration of the Belt and Road Initiative…

ASEAN and the mud on the US–China strategic lens

Immediately following the 26–29 April ASEAN Summit in Manila,…

Comparing the navies of Russia and China

Most discussions of ‘near-peer’ conflicts in the modern context…

50 years of ASEAN: ‘A’ is for angst

ASEAN is ever beset by existential angst. The ‘A’ in ASEAN…

ASPI suggests

Welcome back; let’s roll. World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday…

Floating nuclear reactors in the South China Sea

In November 2016, China announced that it had begun building…

Six China myths and the need to diversify our Asian links

When considering Australia’s future in Asia, many of us have…

China and the South China Sea: ‘you shall not pass’

Recently, a senior Vietnamese official asked Chinese foreign…

Crowded and complex: the changing geopolitics of the South Pacific

Australia faces an increasingly crowded and complex geopolitical…

Foreign policy redux

Writing recently about Malcolm Turnbull’s decision not to…

Worlds apart: John McCain and Angela Merkel

John McCain’s speech in Sydney this week offered an emotionally-appealing…

China’s imperial overreach

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s tenure has been marked by high…

China’s Belt and Road promise, Asia’s fear and greed

Beijing’s great celebration of the Belt and Road Initiative…

ASEAN and the mud on the US–China strategic lens

Immediately following the 26–29 April ASEAN Summit in Manila,…

Comparing the navies of Russia and China

Most discussions of ‘near-peer’ conflicts in the modern context…

50 years of ASEAN: ‘A’ is for angst

ASEAN is ever beset by existential angst. The ‘A’ in ASEAN…

ASPI suggests

Welcome back; let’s roll. World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday…

Floating nuclear reactors in the South China Sea

In November 2016, China announced that it had begun building…

Six China myths and the need to diversify our Asian links

When considering Australia’s future in Asia, many of us have…

China and the South China Sea: ‘you shall not pass’

Recently, a senior Vietnamese official asked Chinese foreign…

Crowded and complex: the changing geopolitics of the South Pacific

Australia faces an increasingly crowded and complex geopolitical…

Foreign policy redux

Writing recently about Malcolm Turnbull’s decision not to…