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

Yet the Asia Power Index provides a more comprehensive view that considers both a country’s resources and the influence it ...

AKD’s platform has created waves across the country turning voter disillusionment into a sign of hope for the nation’s future ...

South Korea must be careful not to politicise high-level defections from the North. By politicising these defections in a democracy-versus-autocracy binary, the Yoon administration is exaggerating the ...

Dmitri Alperovitch is the author of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century. In this Lowy Institute Conversation, he talks with Sam Roggeveen about China’s ...

Afghanistan for years, focusing on a wide range of topics, including politics, conflict, human rights, and environmental issues. He holds a Master’s degree in International Development from Yeungnam ...

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 Taliban has long held international energy ambitions. Plans to build a $10 billion gas pipeline connecting Turkmenistan, ...

Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob is a Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. His research interests include Southeast Asia’s defence and security issues and the region’s relations ...

In the past 24 hours, nearly 3000 pagers carried by members of the terrorist group Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon. This audacious and imaginative attack on Hezbollah killed at least nine people and ...