The ramifications of Western military involvement in Syria reveal the complex nature of humanitarian intervention.

Bolsonaro’s populist policies are endangering civil rights and alienating Brazil from its neighbours.

Greece faces new challenges throughout the Eastern Mediterranean.

Although microfinance was hailed as an important step for women’s empowerment, research has yielded conflicting evidence.

The Paris Agreement provided new hope for state cooperation in addressing climate change. The agreement does not impose legally binding obligations on countries to reduce emissions, instead allowing each country to voluntarily set its own targets.

Effective and equitable use of the Mekong River requires the interests of various stakeholders to be delicately balanced.

As world leaders gather to discuss climate change in Poland, the need to reduce emissions may hamper China’s development of big data and quantum processing.

Balancing relations between China and the United States is arguably Australia's greatest foreign policy challenge in the 21st century. But is Australia getting it right?

Ever since Trump’s election, a Syria for Ukraine swap has been touted as a way of limiting Iran’s footprint in Syria. Will we see moves towards this when Trump and Putin meet at the G20 Summit?

By considering recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has jeopardised the Indonesia-Australia trade deal. Domestic political pressure will preclude Indonesia from signing while Australia is contesting one of the holiest subjects in the Islamic world.