Sana Yousaf, a 17-year-old Pakistani TikTok creator, was shot and killed this month by a man whose advances she had reportedly declined. With nearly a million followers, Sana’s online presence made ...

The US Department of State is facing its biggest reorganisation in decades. This month Congress is considering plans to reduce the foreign affairs workforce by 3,400 positions, cut funding to ...

Something interesting is happening in how Australians think about their own country’s influence in the Pacific. According to the Lowy Institute’s 2025 poll, 39 per cent of Australians now see ...

How does Australia view the future of order? Often through time-tested lenses: great power rivalry, resource competition, mutual balancing – and the perennial debate over how its natural resources can ...

The outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Iran is replete with opportunities for Russia. Moscow is navigating a delicate path, balancing a complex mix of interests and relationships, in seeking ...

Every year the Lowy Institute Poll takes the heartbeat of the nation to reveal what Australians think about big international questions and their nation’s place in the world, with the latest edition ...

In the past, even under the ambit of the Indo-Pacific, Australia’s engagement with the Indian Ocean has largely taken place in context of the military predominance of its treaty ally – the United ...

But these threats and challenges appear to have renewed rather than diminished Australia’s appreciation of its democratic systems. Perhaps the rapid erosion of democratic norms of our main ally, the ...

According to the 2024 National Defence Strategy, the ADF’s overarching strategic objectives are to deter actions against Australia’s interests, shape its strategic environment, and respond with ...

Amid conflict and global disorder, Australians’ feelings of safety and economic optimism have fallen to their lowest levels in the 21-year history of the Lowy Institute Poll.Only 51 per cent of ...

Ramita Iyer is based in Singapore and writes on geopolitical and geoeconomic developments in the Indo-Pacific region. Ramita is the co-editor of two volumes, Making of the Indo-Pacific Economic ...