An examination of the threat of disinformation and cognitive warfare in the Indo-Pacific, the brief unpacks how these tactics are reshaping national security and undermining democratic institutions. Drawing on global examples, it highlights the implications for regional stability and democratic resilience.

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) are 3 significant trade and economic initiatives with a considerable impact on the Indo-Pacific region. This paper provides an overview of each of these initiatives and concludes that together, they underscore the...

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.

This report makes the case that safety in online spaces is a human right as well as a gender equality issue and that ensuring the online safety of children and young people, in all their diversity, is a shared responsibility between governments, policy makers, civil society institutions, parents, guardians, and the wider community at local...

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...