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, ...

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

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 ...

Elbridge Colby’s recent dismissal (Opens in new window) of a collective “middle powers strategy” has reignited a live debate about the future of US alliances and partnerships. Colby, the US Under ...

Democratic erosion is the incremental and multifaceted deterioration in the freedoms, guarantees, and processes vital to the functioning of democracy. Various studies have tried to pinpoint one cause ...

When Narendra Modi arrives in Australia this week, much of the focus will rightly be on how far the India–Australia relationship has travelled. This will be his third visit (Opens in new window) as ...

Taliban gunmen shot (Opens in new window) people in the streets of Herat in early June during demonstrations against the regime’s brutal “morality police”, vindicating in the worst way possible ...

The India Chair produces independent research on India’s emergence as a global strategic actor. In a region marked by great power competition and a volatile order in transition, India’s choices on ...

Sarah Thompson is a Research Associate in the Pacific Islands Program and the Project Director of the Australia–Papua New Guinea Network (Opens in new window) at the Lowy Institute. Her research ...

Connor Graham is a Research Fellow in the Pacific Islands Program at the Lowy Institute. His research spans Pacific public health, climate change, regional security, resource governance, and ...

Premesha Saha is a Senior Policy Fellow at Asia Society Australia, focusing on Indo-Pacific geopolitics and regional security architecture. Her expertise spans minilateral cooperation, great-power ...