On August 8, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations reaches its half-century.  Fifty years ago, the inauguration of ASEAN ushered in the beginning of regionalism in Southeast Asia.

A damaging scandal is dogging Shinzō Abe, but is it severe enough to cost him his job?

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been ousted from office for the third time, but his forced departure raises new questions about the strength of Pakistani democracy.

Between 1945 and 1951, the Allied powers carried out an estimated 2,362 trials of 5,707 Japanese defendants accused of committing war crimes in the Second World War. With the exception of the Tokyo trial, until recently these trials have not received substantial academic attention.

In the wake of Boris Johnson's visit, Australia must consider its trade strategy: weighing the potential gains of a preferential trading agreement with the UK against one with the rest of Europe.

Representatives from the Global Partnership for Education, chaired by former prime minister Julia Gillard, will be in Canberra over the coming week to push for further funding to address worldwide inequalities in education.

Timorese voters are waiting to see the shape of their new government following the July parliamentary election that delivered five political parties to the parliament, none with the absolute majority needed to form government in its own right.  

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia entered what many assumed to be an inevitable period of decline in influence. Recently, however, the former superpower has increasingly asserted and projected its power. How sustainable is the resurgence?  

The record of the history of diplomacy in the lead up to and during World War II has been considerably enriched by this exceptional publication.  

Australia has had no better friend in Congress than Senator John McCain.