The visit, the week before last, of the general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong to Washington at the invitation of President Obama marked another important step on the ...

Realism Amid Fractured Geopolitics. Growing proximity to the Taliban regime marks one of the most dramatic recalibrations of ...

Every year, the “Conference of the Ambassadors” is a central moment in France’s foreign policy, as the French president reflects on the country’s achievements and outlines its objectives for the ...

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Good afternoon. Back to Brexit this week, prompted in part by the spate of anti-immigration protests that have roiled towns across Britain following the Southport stabbings that (as we all now know) ...

After more than six decades of conflict over the political status of Taiwan, Beijing and Taipei are taking significant steps toward rapprochement in their relations. Yet how much Chinese influence can ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar Assad have recently signaled that they are interested in restoring diplomatic ties that have been ruptured for more than a decade.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Perhaps only Nixon could go to China in 1972, but the long run re-emergence of the People’s Republic onto the international stage was hard to stop. What if Nixon had ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stepped up his efforts to normalize relations with Syrian ...

Barry Naughten, PhD, MAIR, MEc, BSc is affiliated with the Centre of Arab and Islamic Studies (CAIS), ANU, where he is a Departmental Visitor completing a book on U.S. foreign energy policy in the ...

The mosaic The Golden Rule by Norman Rockwell depicts people of different nationalities standing together with the inscribed words "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". The UN General ...

TRAFFIC ON THE Bosporus, the waterway that splits Istanbul and connects the Marmara and Black seas, has been busier than usual of late, and more dangerous. Making their way past supertankers, ...