Macedonia is at a crossroads, with an upcoming referendum on the conditions imposed for EU and NATO membership promoted by the prime minister but opposed by the president.

Top of the agenda at this week’s International Whaling Commission meeting will be Japan’s proposal to resume commercial whaling. Will Japan achieve its Way Forward or is it on the way out?

Julie Bishop is gone as Australia’s first female foreign minister. This is both a loss for Australia and for the world.

The bookmakers’ odds are that Britain will crash out of the EU without a deal next March. While Prime Minister May is not giving up on hopes of securing a soft Brexit, she is being held hostage by the right.

The BRICS Summit in Johannesburg last week took place in a global economic and political landscape greatly destabilised by the Trump Administration. Despite difficulties, the BRICS grouping remains the most important political grouping without Western participation.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation met earlier this month in Qingdao. Despite its development potential, there is not much evidence that it will evolve to become an anti-Western centre of power.

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?

Russia and NATO control the overwhelming majority of the world’s nuclear weapons and while the likelihood of an all-out war is low, the risk cannot be ignored. Russia and NATO are never going to see eye-to-eye on some issues, but tensions cannot be allowed to escalate.

Britain is facing its biggest and most complex challenge since the end of World War II. With 10 months to go before the UK is due to leave the EU, British negotiators are in dire straits as warring interest groups grapple over different visions for a post-divorce UK.

Despite the country’s bold outward appearance, socio-political cohesion in China is now more tenuous than ever and the Chinese Communist Party knows it.

Vladimir Putin’s portrayal in the Western media often resembles that of a comic book villain. The Russian President […]