After AUKUS, Russia sees a potential threat — and an opportunity to market its own submarines
Alexey D Muraviev, Curtin University The global opinions on the new AUKUS security pact between Australia, the US and the UK have been decidedly mixed. China and France immediately blasted the deal, while others, such as Japan and the Philippines, were more welcoming. Russia, one…
New Zealand’s latest terror attack shows why ISIS is harder to defeat online than on the battlefield
By: Joe Burton, University of Waikato As Friday’s attack by an ISIS sympathiser in a New Zealand supermarket has shown, ISIS’s extreme ideology still holds strong appeal for some disaffected Muslims living in the west. ISIS ideology did not die in Syria and Iraq with…
How Joe Biden failed the people of Afghanistan — and tarnished US credibility around the world
William Maley, Australian National University In April 1961, just months after the young John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States, his reputation for expertise in foreign policy took a battering as a result of the Bay of Pigs fiasco,…
We must include more women in physics — it would help the whole of humanity
Cathy Foley, Office of the Chief Scientist; Prajval Shastri, and Sarah Maddison, Swinburne University of Technology All around the world, there is an extreme gender imbalance in physics, in both academia and industry. Examples are all too easy to find. In Burkina Faso’s largest university,…
The Role Turkey Can Play in Afghanistan
Erdogan’s proposal to protect Kabul airport will require Turkey to reach separate agreements with the Afghan government and the Taliban. By Salim Cevik Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan caused waves at the NATO summit in June, announcing that Turkey would continue to protect Kabul airport following…
China in a Post-US Afghanistan
Tridivesh Singh Maini China’s criticism of the US decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is likely due to a deterioration in security, which could negatively affect its investments and BRI-related projects. Background During his meeting with Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani, US President Joe Biden referred…
Sri Lanka’s Persecuted Muslims Are Turning Radical
After decades of persecution by the Sinhalese and Tamils, Sri Lanka’s Muslims are abandoning local syncretic Islam and turning to a more radical version. The Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday attacks across Sri Lanka. This raises many questions about the existence of…
Prospects of Economic Cooperation Between Central and South Asia
By: Center for Economic Research and Reforms Uzbekistan’s foreign policy, which is aimed at rapprochement and strengthening friendly and mutually beneficial relations with neighboring states, has created a solid foundation for the development of trade and other economic and investment cooperation between Central Asian countries….