International security expert Alan Dupont speaks with Stan Grant on ABC’s 7.30 about Russia’s relationship with the US. Read more
Values-based foreign policy is flawed thinking
Since Donald Trump’s remarkable US election triumph, several influential members of Australia’s foreign policy community have argued his victory ought to be the catalyst for a rethink of the US alliance and our broader foreign policy settings. Read more
Russia’s sphere of influence on Saturday Extra
Geraldine Doogue interviews Alan Dupont on Radio National about Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and changing foreign policy. Read more
Keynote Presentation for the finalists of the Australian Export Awards
Alan gave the keynote presentation at the 2016 Master Class for the finalists of the Australian Export Awards, held on Thursday 24th November in Brisbane at the Rydges Hotel, Fortitude Valley. Read more
Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride
As the Trump juggernaut rolled across the US on election day, turning the political map red, anxious foreign leaders began to contemplate a new world order of a kind few had envisaged.
Could it be that Donald Trump, the quintessential change agent, would administer the last rites to Pax Americana, the US-led rules-based Western order that had prevailed since 1945, thereby achieving what China, Russia and legions of anti-American jihadists had failed to bring about? Read more
Joko Widodo’s visit a chance to build solid partnership
President Joko Widodo’s forthcoming visit to Australia is an opportunity to reset relations with Indonesia after three years of remarkable turbulence, even by the volatile standards of the past.
But a cautionary reminder: Australian governments are prone to excessive exuberance about the prospects for enhanced relations with Indonesia Read more
Will China rule the world? Asian superpower faces uncertain future
Will China rule the world? Many of its citizens hope so, an understandable desire given the country’s emergence from a century of relative weakness and “national humiliation” at the hands of foreigners in an otherwise extended period of pre-eminence in Asia going back millennia. Read more
Investing in a Turbulent World
Geopolitics is back, with a vengeance, and needs to be elevated to a first order risk when weighing investment decisions. This is the inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the disconcerting bout of geopolitical volatility that is sweeping the globe from Europe to the Middle East and Asia. Read more
Rare Harmony as China and U.S. Commit to Climate Deal
HANGZHOU, China — President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China formally committed the world’s two largest economies to the Paris climate agreement here on Saturday, cementing their partnership on climate change and offering a rare display of harmony in a relationship that has become increasingly discordant. Read more
Australia is losing the battle against China’s ‘citizen spies’
Call it “citizen spying”. Hundreds – perhaps thousands – of Chinese government sources act as a giant human vacuum cleaner, sucking up intelligence to be digested in Beijing. Even the smallest scrap of information might be useful. Read more