Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Australia this week was unusual: he has not yet marked a year in office and it is the first time a French President has made a bilateral official visit. So why now? And what does Macron’s visit mean?

It takes chutzpah for a country that has an unacknowledged nuclear arsenal to point the finger at another country for clandestine nuclear activities and demand military action to halt them.

War remains common in the modern world and its devastating effects demand that we try to end it. Why do some negotiations fail and what conditions are required to end war?