The European Union's (EU's) security and defence partnerships (SDP) are non-legally binding documents that provide ‘mutually beneficial frameworks’ to promote defence and security cooperation between like-minded states. The idea of an Australia-EU defence pact was floated in May 2025. This paper outlines what is being proposed, strategic considerations and next steps.

This report analyses Australia and Indonesia's defence and wider security partnership, identifying several areas where the countries should productively concentrate their efforts in the coming years. The Australia–Indonesia Defence Cooperation Agreement provides useful avenues to expand the defence relationship at a time when Indonesia finds itself courted by other countries that don’t share Australia’s security...

In a world of intensifying geopolitical contest, understanding the dynamics of economic statecraft has never been more important. This global dataset curates case studies involving allegations or claims of economic coercion and/or weaponised trade from 2008 to the end of 2024. Each case study outlines the context, measures, impact, responses of stakeholders and current status.

This article aims to study whether policy issue characteristics affect corporate lobbying behaviour. In doing so, it attempts to make a theoretical contribution to the interest group literature and more specifically on the behaviour of key business actors in the interest group system.

A key focus of this inquiry was to examine the suitability of existing regional architecture and country-groupings to address key human security issues in the Indo-Pacific region, including health security, the impacts of climate change, human rights and labour rights.