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Sam Roggeveen

Sam Roggeveen is director of the international security program at the Lowy Institute.

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks at the end of a NATO summit in Brussels.

The West is not coming to Australia’s rescue. We need new alliances

The harsh truth is that there will be no Western alliance to contain China.

  • Sam Roggeveen

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COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out now.

There are reasons to feel OK about 2020, but a long-forgotten worry got worse

There's good news about three issues that probably occupied a lot of your concern in 2020, but the threat of nuclear conflict escalated.

  • Sam Roggeveen
HMAS Toowoomba fires Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile

Unspoken danger in buying more missiles to defend Australia

Long-range strike weapons could ultimately make Australia less safe by provoking counter-reactions - and not necessarily from China.

  • Sam Roggeveen
Scott Morrison's "miracle" win last week isn't the biggest Newspoll miss in recent memory. It's not even the biggest Newspoll miss in the past year.

The new conventional wisdom in Canberra doesn't stack up

The election of Scott Morrison is unlikely to lead to a new era of political stability.

  • Sam Roggeveen