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Originally published in The Australian (Photo: Getty Images

Originally published in The Australian

North Korea is often portrayed as entirely isolated from the rest of the world, but as the Lowy Institute's new 2017 Global Diplomacy Index has found, the so-called Hermit Kingdom has diplomatic links with almost 50 countries. Which are they, and just how close are their ties? Originally published

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

Originally published in The Australian

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

Originally published in the Straits Times

Asian leaders will be watching Trump for reassurance that the US will be a democratic ally in the Indo-Pacific. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review (Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

Originally published in The Australian (Photo: Office of the Supreme Leader

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review. This is an edited extract of Andrew Leigh's Lowy Institute Paper Choosing Openness (Photo: fcmarriott/Flickr

Originally published in The Australian (Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland/Flickr

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald (Photo: Getty Images/Pool

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review (Photo: Getty Images/Chuing Sung-Jun

Originally published in Foreign Affairs

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

Originally published in the New York Times (Photo: Flickr/Mark

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

The Lowy Institute is delighted to announce that the address delivered at the annual Lowy Institute Media Award dinner will be named the Mark Colvin Lecture in honour of the late foreign affairs journalist, Mark Colvin

Originally published in the Australian Financal Review

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review