Jacinda Ardern has stepped down as New Zealand Prime Minister. What is her legacy, and what will her resignation mean for New Zealand politics?

Latin Americans have begun to include the idea of an Indo-Pacific region in political parlance. However, they have yet to define their stance on what the concept means and who exactly is part of the Indo-Pacific.

Considering a first nations’ approach to foreign policy requires more than a simple cultural extension of Aboriginal heritage, however pleasing to foreign dignitaries. The good news is that, with the right leadership, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is equipped to begin a more inclusive process.

Empowering local women is key to competing against violent extremist influence across Southeast Asia. This requires a gender-sensitive approach to preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) accounting for the diverse experiences of women.

With Prime Minister Kishida Fumio in Washington this week for talks with Biden, Japan’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) is likely to provoke discussion on new boundaries for mini-lateral groups to hedge against the China threat. For Tokyo, the region has become unmistakably more worrying. 

Profit and lack of proof for the illicit origin of antiquities were the motives for an international market to flourish for centuries. But, when terrorist groups are now being financed from such trafficking, countries cannot afford to continue looking the other way.

While summer holidays draw to a close in Australia, much of the globe’s north is being overwhelmed by a rising tide of unresolved issues. Political, business, and civil society leaders will attempt to solve them over the course of the next week in Davos, Switzerland.

On 8 January, Bolsonaristas rioted their way into the capital in breach of the democratic codes they seek to support. With the police missing in action, the new president has a tight rope to walk.

The democratisation movement that began in 1986 in the Philippines for greater decentralisation and local autonomy has been losing steam. Under the son of the president that led to the movement, democratisation looks set to weaken further if challenges are not addressed.

Jakarta’s new criminal code promises more conservatism and fewer rights for citizens. For many, it is a failure by the Indonesian House of Representatives to safeguard pluralistic democracy from corruption and anti-pluralist groups.