John Edwards is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute and an Adjunct Professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. Confronted by US-China conflict, decaying ...

The MDBs now provide close to half of all development support to Southeast Asian countries. However, the stabilising role of these banks is threatened by shareholder dynamics and decreased donor ...

Official development finance to Southeast Asia declined in 2024, falling to its lowest level since 2015. Cuts to bilateral aid have been the predominant driver of the fall In 2024, total official ...

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Materiel flows the other way, too. Myanmar’s state arms factories are reported to have shipped 120-millimetre mortar rounds and other munitions to Russia, which is consistent with a pattern now well ...

A decade ago, foreign correspondent Sean Dorney claimed that Australians are embarrassed to acknowledge their history of colonial rule in Papua New Guinea. Ten years later, academics Joanne Wallis and ...

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Stacy Jarvis is a music historian, writer and classical musician whose research focuses on 19th-century European musical culture and the relationship between music, politics and society.

Mathias Richter is the Resident Vasey Fellow at Pacific Forum, a Honolulu-based think tank focused on the Indo-Pacific. He holds an MPhil in World History from the University of Cambridge and has ...