In this episode, Allan and Darren discuss the enormous protests in Hong Kong against a proposed extradition law, the relevance of the Shangri-La dialogue to watchers of Australian foreign policy and whether the United States needs an "off-ramp" in the crisis with Iran.

Had the leading “centre-left” parties been willing to see Palestinian citizens of Israel as equal, they could challenge the right-wing hegemony in Israel’s national legislature. But that would be asking the impossible.

With the Sino-Russian relationship ostensibly at its best time in history, it is by no means a relationship between equals.

Turkey’s acquisition of the Russian S-400 missile system is seriously challenging its relationship with the United States and its place in NATO.

Flavia Bellieni Zimmermann caught up with Dr. B. (Hass) Dellal AO at the Radicalisation, De-Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation one-day symposium in Perth.

Seventy years since the UN Declaration of Human Rights, there still remains a way to go in addressing the root causes of sexual violence in conflict zones such as Libya. Meanwhile, Australia has a  mixed record of supporting women’s rights.

Nuclear negotiations with North Korea are developing at head-spinning speed. After his shock at the breakdown of talks in Hanoi, Kim has shifted his attention to North Korea’s traditional allies, Russia and China, but he's still on Donald J. Trump's mailing list.

The growing "bromance" between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin may be a development of world historical importance. Warmer relations may help to stabilise and unify Eurasia, long seen by some as a region of crucial strategic significance.

ASEAN has a critical role to play in the crisis facing the Rohingya people in Myanmar, with its annual summit over the weekend an opportunity to help. From the summit’s statement, it’s clear it didn’t.

The 2015 “reinterpretation” of Japan’s Constitution presents Abe with a new dilemma should the United States request that Japan assist in an American armed conflict with Iran.