Poor geographic conditions, insufficient preparation and the unsettled sovereignty mean that a nuclear disaster in Taiwan would seriously […]

Mark Thirlwell looks at the various obstacles to trade and how a renewed commitment to the stand still on protectionism can solve the stagnancy […]

The first week of August marks not only the centenary of the guns of August 1914, but also the fiftieth anniversary of the […]

The 20th International AIDS Conference, AIDS2014, was recently concluded in Melbourne Australia having been attended by 13,600 delegates from more than 190 countries. […]

In the 2012 Operation Pillar of Defence, the fog of war gave way to the digital smog of social media. So how did […]

Internet memes offer a potentially rich source of data for International Relations research and there are many reasons […]

Both in the case of the confrontation in eastern Ukraine, and in the battle between Israel and Hamas, there appears to be a […]

Unlike his predecessor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been paying increased attention to India’s neighbour Bhutan which, despite not being a very strong ally, […]

After 12 days of counting, Indonesia’s Electoral Commission declared on July 22 that Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Jusuf Kalla had won Indonesia’s hotly-contested […]

Japan has long been characterised as a passive actor in international politics, reacting to rather than acting in […]