While global attention remains fixed on conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, a new danger zone is emerging in an unlikely location: the Caribbean. This typically peaceful region has become the ...

With youth unemployment of up to 40 per cent, India’s challenges will not be solved by boosting manufacturing subsidies alone. The politically inconvenient reality is that world-leading growth rates ...

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Dr Milton Osborne was a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He has been associated with Southeast Asia for more than 60 years since being posted to the Australian ...

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The Mar-a-Lago Accord is an idea floated by Stephen Miran, recently appointed Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers. Such a deal, Miran claims, would address the US current account and ...

It has been more than three years since the people of Bougainville voted to decide their political future. The 2019 referendum, that saw 97.7 per cent of voters express a desire for independence over ...

Indonesia is becoming a wealthy nation, but still has an enormous number of very poor people, who are not doing well. This is why Indonesia now likes to see itself as an emerging aid donor rather than ...

With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be China and Russia that now define the rules of global politics? In a disorderly world, each has become increasingly assertive, and their ...

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