This report explores how a strategy of denial can be enhanced through expanding the ADF’s ability to project power and ...

A conflict between the US and China over Taiwan would be particularly consequential for Australia. Our vital trade to and from North Asia (including with Taiwan) would be disrupted, the strategic ...

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has partnered with Carahsoft Technology Corp. to expand access to its strategic research and data trackers across the US public sector. Under the ...

Everything seems to be accelerating: geopolitics, technology, security threats, the dispersal of information. At times, it feels like a blur. But beneath the dizzying proliferation of events, ...

The Cost of Defence is ASPI’s flagship annual defence budget brief, produced since the early 2000s to provide an independent, data‑driven assessment of how Australia funds its defence capabilities and ...

This report explores how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), fringe media and pro-CCP online actors seek—sometimes in unison—to shape and influence international perceptions of the Chinese Government’s ...

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) now has a presence on the main digital platforms, but it is yet to master digital diplomacy: using these powerful new communication tools and ...

Powerful and survivable large surface combatants, in numbers commensurate with the expected threat and national budgetary limitations, remain central in the order of battle of any navy of a ...

The new economics of global waterways are taking shape, influenced by the dissolution of many agreed international norms, laws and key principles of maritime trade. The US–Iran War has many focused on ...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) as an invisible driver of socio-economic change have long captured the imagination of politicians, policymakers and aid professionals alike. Since the ...

Australia’s agriculture sector and food system produce enough food to feed more than 70 million people worldwide. The system is one of the world’s least subsidised food systems. It has prospered under ...

This special report demonstrates the extraordinary proactivity of Japan towards issues of regional order-building, security and defence policy, and military capability development and teases out the ...