While foreign policy has not figured among the key issues in the Indian elections, a new government will have to

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As the rainy season approaches in South Sudan and fighting continues unabated in different parts of the country, humanitarian needs

This week Australia participated in the second meeting of MIKTA, an informal grouping of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and

Rumours of the death of the nuclear disarmament cause from Ukraine is much exaggerated. Ukraine could still have been invaded

Democracy was deemed unlikely for India as the country’s grinding poverty and the diversity of its ethnic, religious, caste and

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The strategic rationale for nuclear weapons has disappeared since the end of the Cold War. The establishment of a global

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The Economic Partnership Agreement that Japan recently signed with Australia (JAEPA) has everything to do with Japanese trade strategy and