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18 Jun 2025
Indonesia’s Russia-China Pivot: What Prabowo’s G7 Absence Really Means
By Dr Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Yeta Purnama 
When Indonesia’s president, Prabowo Subianto, declined a rare invitation to the G7 Summit in Canada this week—opting instead to appear beside Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum—it [...]
18 Jun 2025
Young Women Building Peace in the Asia Pacific 
By Dr Lesley Pruitt and Erika Isabel Yague
18 Jun 2025
Vietnam’s Cultural Diplomacy and the Politics of National Rise
By Dr Vu Lam
17 Jun 2025
Belonging After the Handover: Competing Ideas of Autonomy and Identity in Hong Kong Under Beijing’s Rule
By Associate Professor Gina Anne Tam
17 Jun 2025
Marcos-Duterte Power Struggle in the Philippines: Post 2025 Mid-Term Elections
By Dr Rizal G. Buendia

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Young Women Building Peace in the Asia Pacific 
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03 Mar 2023
The Master Diplomat Richard Woolcott
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Indonesia’s New Capital
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Dramatic Gains for the Right-Populist Sweden Democrats Party in the 2022 Elections
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What to Watch in the 2022 Fiji General Election
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Forgotten Conflicts

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Charges of Genocide in Northern Ethiopia
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Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: Continuing Humanitarian Action in One of the World’s Most Forgotten Crises
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Finding Strength and Closure After Conflict: ICRC Supporting Families of the Missing in Papua New Guinea
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Crisis in Nigeria: How to Train a War Surgeon
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Fresh perspectives

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13 Jun 2025
Could North Korea be Persuaded to Renounce Chemical Weapons?
29 May 2025
Asserting Australian Diplomacy beyond US interests
20 May 2025
Silent Complicity: The Global Network Behind the Sit-tat’s Airstrikes
01 May 2025
“It is up to all of us to fix this”: Former President Barack Obama on Citizen Diplomacy
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Geopolitics

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22 May 2024
Xi and Putin Tighten Bonds in China; Germany Faces Ongoing Economic and Political Trouble
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12 Jun 2025
Book Review: Age of Revolutions – Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
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Book Review: How Finland Survived Stalin
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Book Review: NATO from Cold War to Ukraine
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Book Review: Africa and Preferential Trade: An Unpredictable Path for Development
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