The Asian Development Bank recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. During this time it has been witness to the region's dramatic economic transformation. Is the bank ready for the next 50 years?

With scandals and controversy dogging him, Shinzō Abe’s push for constitutional revision seems like the perfect distraction. However, in his haste to realise constitutional reform, is Abe further harming his chances for political survival?  

The executive branch, especially the president, dominates the creation of US foreign policy. While it is true that such a view, if taken to extreme, lacks nuance and borders on becoming a caricature of American foreign policy, Ashok Sharma’s 'Indian Lobbying and its Influence in US Decision Making' avoids caricature in explaining the emergence of US policies towards India.  

In the world of international diplomacy, the Australian government has a history of fashioning nonbinding agreements and documents of less than treaty status […]

This week’s shock news about meetings between senior Trump campaign members and a Russian lawyer linked to Putin is likely to disrupt the […]

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has flown back to the US from the Persian Gulf after the most concerted effort yet to resolve […]

In what the United Nations has called the worst humanitarian crisis since the World War II, more than 16 million people in East […]

Recent international public opinion polls show that US global image has taken a hit since President Donald Trump assumed office. Some of the […]

Expectations of the Hamburg G20 were not high, but the summit seems to have achieved even less than anticipated and, for the first time ever, the […]

Following the G20 summit, the US and Russia announced a ceasefire agreement in southern Syria, the result of months of closed-door negotiations. This […]