Legal experts are divided on whether the executive order violates the Constitution and federal law.

If Merkel believes she can employ soft power, diplomacy and compromise to reverse Erdogan’s tide, she is sadly mistaken.

President's Trump’s taste for melodrama and conflict undercuts US envoys such as Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

US President Donald Trump's infamous temperament visited itself upon Australia this week in the form of a reportedly terse phone call with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Denmark’s recently announced plans to appoint a Digital Ambassador appear to be a world first. Does Australia need a similar Ambassadorial posting to liaise with the world’s digital and tech giants?

New Caledonia can ill afford discussions to stall for nine months when only 22 months remain before the referendum deadline.

Euan Graham and Kim Woo-sang discuss the status of Australia and South Korea as middle powers in the Asia-Pacific, and the immediate challenges facing the region

In an environment of such unpredictability, it is more important than ever that our leaders hold fast to a sense of what ultimately matters to Australia.

The bill defines an initial assault that does not require hospitalisation or sick leave from work as an administrative rather than criminal offence.

Many in the Socialist party feel bitter about Hamon's victory in the presidential primaries.

Perhaps no country has a greater stake in how Theresa May pursues her vision for Brexit than Ireland.

The Trump Administration presents the best opportunity we will ever have to present Australia as a place of welcome and innovation.

This weeks links examine the regional reverberations of President Trump's executive orders on immigration and NGO funding, the IMF report on the PNG economy the PNG government wanted delayed, and an award-winning Solomon Islands filmmaker.

The key test of the Australia-US alliance under the presidency of Donald Trump will be his approach to Asia.

Russian and Iranian sunk costs in maintaining the Assad regime in Syria are significant, while Washington's are minimal.

Suggesting digital content can fully replace shortwave services points to a worrying ignorance by ABC management of PNG and Pacific audiences.

Small and medium powers need to go beyond both the existing US-led hub and spoke system and the Chinese alternative.

With memories of a five-year civil war still vivid, there is cautious optimism a move to a Federal system will help the nation prosper.

Hard power at the service of America is now the centrepiece of US international policy.

U Ko Ni’s death need not be in vain; it should be a wake-up call to the deepening societal divisions across Myanmar.

We tend to think of South Asia and the Middle East as separate strategic zones but they are becoming increasingly more connected.

We know very little about Xi's personal commitment, if any, to globalisation.

The EU will not serve up May’s recently announced order for a ‘full English Brexit’. Neither is Brussels impressed by the threat of ‘Global Britain’.

The key is a vibrant economy that creates new jobs. Trump’s protectionist measures are a distraction from this bigger challenge.

Every armed group that is not Islamic State can be considered moderate in the context of Syria, but radical to the West.

It was a short week for The Interpreter, but it was full of deep thoughts about big subjects.

In Iate 2017 the fourth annual Australia-PNG Emerging Leaders Dialogue took place at the Queensland Art Gallery.

This week's round-up of migration and border policy news.

2017 will pose more sharply than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall the question of what Russia wants from the United States and the world system more broadly.

After the election of Donald Trump I argued that populism may not be the right lens through which to view recent political trends in Western democracies.

Our regular update from the world of digital diplomacy.

With mixed enthusiasm for a US-less TPP, it's all eyes on the promised Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership with the 16 countries involved to meet in Japan next month.

We'll be taking a day off so fewer posts than usual tomorrow, back to normal on Friday.

In this podcast, Josh Kurlantzick, Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council for Foreign Relations and author discusses twilight wars from Laos to the present day.

It’s clear Russia conducted a significant and wide-ranging information operation targeting the US election, using a variety of cyber and traditional propaganda tools.

This week's links include new statistics on student migration and workers visas, ruminations on the PNG election, gold mining underway again in The Solomons and an Oscar nomination for Vanuatu film.

Left to their own devices, institutions tend to over-represent white males compared to every other demographic.

This year it is 25 years since Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last Man.

I knew before coming to Sri Lanka on holidays that cricket was in season, but I never guessed that my sporting nirvana would be realised in South Asia.

The talks are being moderated by Syrian government ally Russia, in the capital city of a former Soviet republic, without US involvement, at a time when military conditions on the ground put the ball firmly in Russia’s court.

Labour must rediscover its confidence in the British public and political institutions and embrace a UK that takes a strong stand in world affairs.

More than 30 years after the Spycatcher case, espionage is back on Prime Minister Turnbull’s agenda – albeit in an utterly different form.

This week's links include a profile on the new head of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Oxfam ruffling feathers at Davos and more.

For all forecasting’s demonstrated imperfections, sensible policy-making requires some view on where the economy is headed.

In Trump's mind, the media and the intelligence community are intimately connected as arbiters of 'ground truth', to be tamed and controlled.

Concerns around women’s safety and security are greatest for the presidential election; there may be more room to manoeuvre in the municipal campaigns.

The new president has a lot to learn and has shown a limited capacity to evolve.

Obama's legacy, how Mexico is preparing for Trump, Taiwan's inaugural delegation, and more.