Diplomacy & Crisis News

The consequences will be felt long after the fighting ends.

Trump needs Ottawa more than he’ll say.

The battle over the next Dalai Lama, between religious tradition and state power, is set to become one of the defining geopolitical stories of the coming decade.

Rather than climate, disease, or artificial intelligence, the next secretary-general should stay focused on conflict resolution.

Custodial violence is not episodic but rather structural, woven into the daily architecture of incarceration.

Australia’s frigate purchase will likely end up being more complicated than the “zero-change” framing suggests.

Pyongyang fired “surface-to-surface” missile launches roughly one month before U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing. 

China should avoid treating long-established external economic ties as instruments that can be readily deployed or withdrawn.

The Regional Ecological Summit could kickstart a wider climate activism campaign in the greater Central Asian region, or it could just be a short-term, pro-green mirage.

China’s Xiamen bid ups the stakes in the the battle over the secretariat host.

Canberra and Tokyo continue to build closer links with each other, with a shared understanding of the strategic environment, and a high degree of trust

Fishing communities notice everything. But alienation from Delhi means India is losing intelligence input it can’t afford to lose.

Contrary to popular belief, the Mughals did not bring Islamic rule to India — but their rule did shape India’s military, administrative, and geopolitical landscape in ways that endure to this day.

Years of investment made certain provinces resilient to aid cuts, but replicating that system is another story.

President Trump could come to represent the restrained, reasonable wing of the GOP.

The country's preference for an open and predicable international order is shared by most of its Asian neighbors.

Lee Jae Myung is the first foreign leader to visit Vietnam since the confirmation of the country's new leadership earlier this month.

The Iran war has altered the Gulf’s balance of power—and the kingdom’s calculus.

Why America and China need ASEAN.

Der Wegfall der engen Zusammenarbeit mit der EU wäre verheerend, sagt der Justizminister. Den absoluten Bevölkerungsdeckel für die Schweiz bezeichnet er als ein unglaubliches Experiment.