This report reveals the shift in research leadership over the past two decades towards large economies in the Indo-Pacific, led by China’s exceptional gains. India is also emerging as a key centre of global research innovation and excellence, establishing its position as a science and technology power. That said, the US, the UK and a...

This report assesses Antarctica's importance to Australian security, China’s hybrid Antarctic activity, and the need for Australia to develop a balancing strategy capable of bolstering the Antarctic Treaty and ‘pushing back’ against growing Chinese power in Antarctica.

This report outlines the challenges experienced in writing Australia’s and the UK’s official intelligence histories to date. It identifies why and how such histories are valuable for explaining and building the social licence for the work of intelligence agencies and advancing historical scholarship on an important but previously obscured element of democratic statecraft.

Australian Government decision-makers need time and insight to identify and prioritise threats (and opportunities) and devise effective responses. Strategic warning intelligence enables and empowers them to do so. This report contends that Australia's national intelligence community should develop a discrete, institutional strategic warning intelligence function—an Australian Centre for Strategic Warning.

This techdiplomacy playbook offers an introduction to the processes of negotiation that underpin the development of technical standards for artificial intelligence (AI). In this report, the authors reflect on the role of technical standards, describe the current state of play in global AI governance, and outline and explain how agreements on technical standards come into...