Asia and Pacific
What we know, and what we assume, about violent conflict and development in Asia
Marta Foresti heads the Overseas Development Institute's Politics and Governance Programme.
Sadly, we know a great deal about violence and conflict. Yet according to recent…
Burma and North Korea: Again? Still?
Andrew Selth is a research fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute.
The US Treasury's 'designation' of Lieutenant General Thein Htay, Chief of Burma's Directorate of Defence…
China's incomplete financial evolution
The spike in China's short-term interest rates over the past month sent a shiver through world financial markets, in the same way that Fed Chairman Bernanke's statements on…
Cambodia: After Hun Sen wins election
When Cambodians go to the polls on 28 July it's odds-on that Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) will be returned to office. This result will continue the CPP's political…
Protecting Australian businesspeople abroad
Nick Alexander, a former UN and Lowy Institute intern, is a University of Sydney Juris Doctor candidate.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made it an essential theme of his trip to…
Reader riposte: Rudd, SBY and those boats
Christopher Lethbridge writes:
The joint communiqué from Friday's discussions between Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd…
John Garnaut on being a foreign correspondent
Three days after John Garnaut, Fairfax Media's award winning China correspondent, left Beijing, I was fortunate enough to catch up with him before he gave a keynote address to the…
Australia's South China Sea chance
All those countries (including Australia) that so solemnly call for a 'rules-based order' in Indo-Pacific Asia have a chance today to show they mean it.
At a major gathering in…
What to do about climate migration
Professor Jane McAdam is a member of the Consultative Committee of the Nansen Initiative and the author of Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law.
Last month,…
Has Gen Y really gone off democracy?
In Kevin Rudd's victory speech last night, he went out of his way to address young Australians:
Mr Rudd said many young people had not liked or respected much of what they…