Susannah Patton is Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute and the Project Lead for the Asia Power Index, the Institute’s annual data-driven assessment that maps the changing ...

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Each year, the Lowy Institute Asia Power Index ranks the relative power of states in Asia across eight metrics. The key ...

Each year, the Lowy Institute’s Asia Power Index (API) provides the authoritative guide to the distribution of power in Asia.

Donald Trump’s selection of JD Vance as his 2024 running mate has disquieted America’s security partners in Europe and Asia.

In 2022, Assistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts declared that Australia wanted a new relationship – one of partnership – with Africa. Good call, but little action has followed so far. Africa looms ...

Singapore ranks eighth out of 27 countries for comprehensive power in Asia, besting ninth-ranked Indonesia by one place. How is it possible that a country of fewer than six million people, with a land ...

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This month, the former East-German states of Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg held elections for their state parliaments. Two parties that made the greatest gains were the far-right Alternative für ...

With Taiwanese chips integral to the US economy, the would-be vice president is promoting his own brand of restrained nationalism. Stay informed with the latest commentary and analysis on ...

There is a somewhat careworn characterisation of modern Indonesia as a country that keeps on changing in order to remain the same, with the rider that the more it changes the more it becomes familiar.

The recent Quad summit was something of a victory lap for President Joe Biden’s Asia strategy. Despite global challenges – Afghanistan, Ukraine and Gaza – the Biden administration has strengthened US ...