Relations between India and the US are underpinned by their shared democratic values and strengthened by an extraordinary level of convergence of interests, especially the security concerns arising from terrorism and the assertive posture of China in the Indo-Pacific region. Hopefully, President Donald Trump’s maiden visit to India will further strengthen the US-India strategic partnership which is touted as the “defining partnership” of the 21st century.

Regions are becoming increasingly central in both the implementation and claims to legitimacy of UN peacekeeping operations. It is necessary to understand how the form of a regions affect the nature and fruits of cooperation.

The Iranian regime is ensuring that conservatives and hardliners win big in Friday’s parliamentary elections. That will be a pointer to next year’s presidential election.

The coming months will determine whether the November United States presidential contest becomes a climate election. With Trump now acquitted following impeachment proceedings, the Democrats will have a harder road to go to convince voters on both sides of the political spectrum that addressing climate change is a key priority.

Video interviews with speakers at the 2nd AIIA Indo-Pacific Research Forum, held in Tokyo in February 2020.

With the presidential primary elections underway in the United States, the only thing that seems clear at this point is that the the eventual Democratic nominee will face an uphill battle to the presidency.

Under the leadership of Boris Johnson, the UK government is setting up to tackle a range of very ambitious projects.  With the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on the horizon, climate change policies are high on the agenda.

Australia has engaged economically with Asia since Indigenous times, but two World Wars and a Great Depression stunted progress in the early twentieth century. Post-World War II, Australia started to realise its economic future lay in the Asia-Pacific region, as economic development lifted millions of people out of poverty and created lucrative export markets for Australia. In terms of governing this transition, both sides of politics played a role.

For the first time in almost a decade, the Australian Government is conducting a review of Australia’s international development policy. A request for community input means the review is an opportunity to solidify international development as a matter of national interest.

There is no straightforward narrative behind recent series of events in East Germany’s state of Thuringia, which have thrown German politics into disarray.