Artificial Intelligence is becoming an increasingly significant technology. This brings risks due to the unpredictability and unknowability of future systems.

A necessity for coping with these conflict-ridden times is to increase capacity for peacebuilding. For Australia, those best placed to facilitate overseas peacebuilding efforts are its diplomats.

The death of Mahsa Amini triggered protests across Iran. These protests highlight the anger that Iranians hold toward their government and its regime.

Like so many other areas of international and regional multilateral endeavour, the frameworks for managing global nuclear affairs have serious gaps. Russia’s intervention in Ukraine has again demonstrated the weaknesses but also some of the strengths of this global nuclear order.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo was often praised for his government’s “womenomics” policy. However, there is a lack of evidence that this policy helped gender inequality in Japan.

The world is very clearly in transition. Change and decay is all around us, often accompanied by violence, threatened revolution, and sweeping political change.

On 11 August, the newly elected Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, announced the reinstatement of diplomatic relations with Venezuela. This is a vital step in improving the bilateral relationship.

Consumed by the war in Ukraine, Russia isn’t holding up a collective defence bargain for Central Asia and the Caucasus. The annexation of eastern Ukraine will make Russia even less attractive as a security ally.

The 25 September general elections in Italy are the result of a complex socio-political, institutional, and economic scenario that began in 2020. To understand the results of these elections, it is necessary to delve into the origin and functioning of its current political system.

Iran’s ties with Russia and China have become increasingly close. Driven by anti-Western sentiment, Iran’s posture no longer follows the “Neither East nor West” doctrine of its past.