Marty Harris is an assistant digital editor at the Lowy Institute.
- Why convergence breeds conflict. Mark Leonard on US-China in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs.
- Let's add some theory to that: security-dilemma theory and US-China competition. A new report from IISS.
- The rise of Rouhani — Hezbollah is not concerned.
- Is a malaria vaccine on the way?
- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon writes to the Security Council on the mechanics of destroying Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.
- Local Content Requirements: protectionism by another name?
- The IMF's World Economic Outlook 2013 has some bad news for the BRICS: 'The BRICS economies were always expected to decelerate as they settled back to more moderate growth rates from the bounce-back levels that prevailed after the global financial crisis, but growth rates have fallen much further than expected.'
- Internet freedom in 2013, courtesy of Freedom House (China, Cuba and Iran are at the bottom of the list; North Korea was not surveyed):