For Australians, it might be difficult to imagine a scenario where there are no hospitals to walk into or no medical personnel to consult about the most basic of health issues. But this is the reality for thousands of people affected by the ongoing armed conflict in northeastern Nigeria.

Without better global leadership on climate change our best days are behind us, yet many are turning to a Swedish schoolgirl for leadership rather than the ruling global elite.

Today marks 20 years since the first time UN peacekeepers were directed to protect civilians from physical violence in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, the Protection of Civilians (PoC) mandate has become a centre of gravity for peacekeeping operations but also for the UN system as a whole.

Has Francis Fukuyama once again provided the key to making sense of the confusion going on around us, including in our own Asian — or Asia-Pacific, or Indo-Pacific — region?

In this episode of the AIIA VIC’s Dyason House podcast, Dr Ben Wellings discusses how the support for an Anglosphere — which is based on a particular memory of empire — helps explain what caused Brexit in the first place, and how Euro-scepticism as a political project is not “protectionist” but rather “hyper-globalist”.

In the most polarising and toxic elections in India’s history, the voter turnout of 67.1 percent — 604 million — was the highest ever. Fierce social media wars contributed to the nastiness. It is hard to say whether political discourse was coarsened more by PM Narendra Modi or his opponents.

The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — the deal curtailing Iran’s nuclear activities — has been under strain since the US unilaterally decided to withdraw in May last year.

Taiwan legalises same-sex marriage but compromises on marriage equality.

US-China trade relations have stalled over the last four months, which the Australian Political Military community understand as marking the end of open trade globally. They could do better.

The Trump administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the United States census will have major implications for the distribution of political power in 2020s America.