The most comprehensive regional aid dataset of its kind, tracking $60 billion in aid and development finance across 50,000 ...

After nearly three years of fighting, Sudan’s war is no longer an internal conflict. Fuelled by several intertwined factors – including regional rivalries, Gulf ambitions as well as great-power ...

The study of how Ukrainian forces have adapted, learned, and transformed their training regimes is a vital but under-examined element of this war, and war more generally. Ukraine’s military training ...

A growing share of regional support is shifting from grants to loans, led by Australia’s expanding infrastructure pipeline and the major multilateral banks. China, once the region’s largest lender, ...

Last week, two of four King Vajiralongkorn’s estranged sons made an unprecedented visit to Thailand from their homes in the United States, their first in decades. The palace did not include the two ...

Riley Duke is a Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute and lead author of the Institute's Pacific Aid Map. Roland Rajah Roland ...

The Pacific is acutely exposed to the economic fallout of the Iran war, particularly its disruptions to global supply chains. Costs for oil imports, for example, are much higher for the Pacific than ...

“The Batan Islands belong to Beijing” – or so a group of Chinese maritime scholars are reported to (Opens in new window) have claimed at an academic symposium in Guangzhou on June 30. This is a ...

Southeast Asia is entering an uncertain era in which American security guarantees can no longer be relied upon. This challenge is becoming more urgent as a Taiwan contingency grows increasingly ...

The verdict of John le Carré (real name David Cornwall) on the outcome of the Cold War was: “The right side lost, but the wrong side won”. This ambiguous conclusion is attributed to le Carré’s ...

Official development finance to the Pacific increased in 2024, ending three years of decline. The rise came predominantly from concessional loans, which offset falling year-on-year grants. Total ...