Pacific Islanders have found their region, previously undervalued by larger powers, now a focal point for strategic competition. Faced with this new “great game”, Pacific Island countries have become diplomatic price-setters and are leveraging increased competition to maximise development benefits. But unbridled strategic rivalry also presents challenges to good governance and transparency in the region...

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.

In this collection of essays ten Lowy Institute scholars assess the implications of a second Trump presidency and the potential policy consequences for American statecraft, Australia, and the world.

This report argues that the Indian Ocean is poised to become a significant area of cooperation between France and Australia in light of the 2018 French Indo-Pacific strategy to enhance France’s military, economic, diplomatic and political assets in the region.

Acts of economic statecraft – both positive incentives and negative sanctions – are key foreign policy tools. Countries use tools like development assistance, loans, visas, tariffs and investment as policy levers to achieve their aims. This paper sets out future focused actions for Australia in its practice of economic statecraft, including how it can support...