Having closed the country even more tightly during the Covid pandemic, last month North Korea put out the welcome sign for a small group of foreign tourists from Australia, the United Kingdom, France, ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

China is no longer just buying minerals. It is building control over the industrial system around them – refining, processing, logistics, and manufacturing that will underpin the green supply chains ...

The Southeast Asia Influence Index maps the landscape of geopolitical influence in this crucial region. Building on an existing body of data-driven research by the Lowy Institute, this new project is ...

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

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 ...

For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic subsided, North Korea has sent a delegation led by Kim Song-nam, director of the international department of the Workers’ Party of Korea, to Southeast ...

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 ...