🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️ How does our strategic environment inform leadership in intelligence and national #security? Listen to Kerri Hartland, Heather Smith Australian Institute of International Affairs and Heather Cook ACIC as they join Meg Tapia to explore #leadership challenges and opportunities in an

If you're an The Australian Public Service employee interested in completing a PhD on a topic of national significance, the SRW Foundation are running an online information session for their 2026 scholarship on Feb 4. Details below 🗓️

New CAMA working paper (Vol: 04/2025): ‘How Do Macroeconomic Variables Affect Which Issues Voters Care About?’, by Lachlan Kerwood-McCall Lachlan Kerwood-McCall ANU Crawford School of Public Policy Read it at bit.ly/4hbrQVu

Lucid take on Trump tariffs.

Australian Statistician Dr David Gruen AO will be the next Chair of the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation from July 2025. Current Chair Dr Martin Parkinson AC PSM has steered the Foundation since 2021, contributing to the Board and Foundation for over 14 years. reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/au…

My latest: Australian agency & the China–US contest for supremacy. Open access Australian Journal of International Affairs.⁩ ⁦ANUBellSchool⁩ ⁦Senator Penny Wong⁩ ⁦Peter J. Dean⁩ ⁦Bec Strating⁩ ⁦Andrew Carr⁩ ⁦Nick Bisley⁩ ⁦John Blaxland⁩ ⁦Darren Lim⁩ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

“The revival of American economic nationalism need not spell the end of a global pursuit of more inclusive, sustainable growth.” Read Mariana Mazzucato on what it will take to build a fairer economic order: foreignaffairs.com/south-africa/b…

🛤️ Journey from Ancient Athens to TSMC in Taiwan in 60 mins — my Modern Economic Statecraft seminar traverses goals, tools and takeaways for Australia and other countries. 🎧soundcloud.com/helenrosemitch… 💻 vimeo.com/1066295878?sha…

⚡️#AI could transform society — and the world — like electricity did. What AI means for people, #productivity and #economicsecurity partly depends on how states shape incentives at home & beyond. 🚵‍♀️ On #AI and #geopolitics I find our ideas need updating: shorturl.at/DfjVU

Last night, Reserve Bank of Australia Deputy Governor Andrew Hauser delivered an address before the The Lowy Institute. He spoke about China's economic resilience, the announcement of US tariffs and China's response, and the opportunities for Australian businesses. resources.lowyinstitute.org/events/an-addr…

Tariffs. Executive orders. Shifting alliances. Trump’s second term is already reshaping the US - at home and abroad. Our experts go behind the headlines to look at what’s happening across defence, trade, tech, climate, and more. Explore their insights: ussc.edu.au/unpacking-trum…

The US and China have a new framework to de-escalate. Whether that'll be durable is unclear. What is clear is that China can and will weaponize its export dominance. We discuss what the trade war teaches us about China's economy in our new RAND Commentary. 1/

Opportunities exist amid #tariff chaos. They rest on US credibility with other countries, which have the economic and strategic resources and capabilities it needs. Thoughtful call to action by Emily Kilcrease and co-author.

The shale revolution has given the US a freer hand in the Middle East — but that advantage is vulnerable, Javier Blas writes bloomberg.com/opinion/featur…

Interesting take on modern manufacturing to win wars: “the correlation between industrial might in peace and war may no longer be so close”. Instead talent and innovation may be decisive.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been preparing for decades for a clash with the U.S., taking lessons from Soviet failures on.wsj.com/4l7j2BU

Great application of economic insights to future AI scenarios: “[future] growth may be constrained not by what we are good at but rather by what is essential and yet hard to improve”.

Looking forward to launching the new issue of ⁦⁦Australian Foreign Affairs⁩ “The Bomb: Will Asia Go Nuclear?” at ⁦ANUBellSchool⁩ ⁦ourANU⁩ on Monday 20 October. Details below👇 events.humanitix.com/the-bomb-will-…