The idea of a formal trilateral economic grouping between India, Nepal and China began to circulate in 2010, but India’s official circles have maintained a guarded silence towards the proposal.

Canada’s G7 presidency might not have made “gender inequality history,” but the Charlevoix summit may still very well be remembered as a milestone for women and girls worldwide.

On Tuesday, North Korea committed to denuclearisation for the third or fourth time in the past 25 years. For now, the Singapore summit looks like a lost opportunity and could even prove a disaster.

The rift between the US and the EU was evident at the G7 Summit this week. A revisionist US poses a conundrum for both the EU and Australia.

The G7 Summit ended without a resolution to the embryonic trade war unleashed by Donald Trump. Canadian leaders have been toying with the notion of diminishing their dependence on US markets. Has the time finally come?

As the 2018 World Cup kicks off this week in Russia, manifestations of ongoing political tension raise the issue of whether a mega-sporting event can be removed from the political, social and cultural imperatives that globalisation has brought.  

While it comes out 60 years after most of the events it describes, this book shows that the fate of the earth is still in the hands of a few war planners in Washington and Moscow and the automatic doomsday machine they created. Nuclear winter could still wipe out humanity from the world.

As the South Sudan conflict enters its fifth year, there remain significant barriers to accessing education, particularly for adolescent girls. On World Day Against Child Labour, a focus on education must be at the heart of South Sudan’s recovery.

Donald Trump’s Iran strategy has significant direct and indirect policy implications for Australia. It should firmly decline any invitation to join a new ‘broad coalition’.

Addressing sexual violence is not a negotiable condition for achieving peace. With more information on the location of crimes and the perpetrators, we can use data and knowledge on patterns of reporting to intervene.