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.
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.
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.
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.
Concerns around women’s safety and security are greatest for the presidential election; there may be more room to manoeuvre in the municipal campaigns.
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has sent an 11-strong cross-party delegation to today’s inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, urging them to interact with and thank Trump.
The story of Narendra Modi's rise to power in India sounds eerily familiar today. And at first glance, Modi and President-elect Donald Trump should be natural allies.
‘No’, she said, in words which many still struggle to believe, ‘the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.’ And with that May upended more than four decades of British foreign and economic policy.