Australia’s new migration strategy risks deterring students globally due to heightened financial burdens and limited work opportunities. These reforms are alongside the Australian Government’s increased focus on strengthening relations with Southeast Asian nations, including through education. 

Last month, the European Parliament narrowly voted to pass a landmark raft of legislation called the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. The Pact comprises five regulations to manage the movement of people, especially asylum seekers, into the European Union (EU).

French and German credibility has reached new lows on the Ukraine issue, risking European security as each seeks to sure up political and geopolitical influence. Solidarity is weak, and arms corporations have proven influential in national decisions for EU integration on security matters. 

In their interesting, carefully crafted book on the problems facing liberal international order, Peter Trubowitz and Brian Burgoon argue that, for Western states, their geopolitical predicament is premised on their domestic politics.

The CAA act is a step in the wrong direction, both for Indian secularism and for regional harmony. It remains to be seen what ripple effects that may have within and outside India.  

As journalists fixated on the Princess Kate photo scandal, they overlooked an another involving a Royal unfolding on the other side of the world. The Duchess of York’s recent visit to Samoa previewed the opportunity of this year’s Commonwealth summit to both enhance the royal image and secure much needed support for climate-vulnerable nations.

The Indo-Pacific Cooperation Network, a program centred on a group of 15 experts on disaster resilience selected from […]

The prevailing strategic culture in Australian foreign policy circles that view Pacific Island states in instrumental and paternalistic ways is unproductive. Moving forward, there must be active recognition of the agency of these actors and engagement with their key concerns — particularly climate change. 

Ecuador has seen a sizable increase in “narcopolitics” in recent years. One of its most challenging issues is dealing with guns from Peru, which have increasingly infiltrated the Ecuadorian borderlands.

Iran and Russia have entered a closer political, economic, and military relationship during the past two years, the trigger widely seen as the upsurge in defence cooperation following Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This new relationship, described variously as a strategic alignment or strategic partnership, was seen by both Tehran and Moscow as necessary to meet mutual and separate critical national needs due to the restrictive effects on both of US and Western sanctions.

Germany’s political landscape is fracturing, and the far-right is on the rise. The established parties need to respond and become more appealing for a broader cohort of voters.