Most of us Indonesia groupies have long been nonplussed at how Australians are so luke-warm (and so ill-informed) about Indonesia, as confirmed by the latest Lowy poll.

Nearly five years after the onset of the financial crisis, we might expect widespread agreement on what went wrong and how to fix it. But there is still a lot to be done, with some new thinking required.

Mike Callaghan is Director of the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre.

Given the NSA electronic spying revelations, the timing for Terms and Conditions May Apply could hardly be better:

Sarah Phillips, a Senior Lecturer at Sydney University, is in Somaliland conducting research.

Sara Dehm is a PhD researcher working on international law, global institutions and migration governance at the Melbourne Law School.

Below, the final part of my interview with Kishore Mahbubani, one of Asia's most prominent world-politics commentators and author of The Great Convergence.

Obama's proposal for further substantial nuclear weapons' cuts gets cool reception in Moscow.

Mike Callaghan is Director of the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre.

Dougal Robinson is a Lowy Institute defence intern.

Below, part 2 of my interview with Kishore Mahbubani, one of Asia's most prominent world-politics commentators and author of The Great Convergence. Part 1 here.

Australian diplomacy had a very different look and feel when I arrived here at the back end of 2006. John Howard was still the prime minister, just as George W Bush and Tony Blair remained in charge in Washington and Westminster.

Sure, why not, they can afford it: Pakistan announces a huge military budget increase.

Last Friday's US announcement that it would send military aid to Syrian rebels was ambiguous, but has since been followed up with a leak confirming that this

Hassan Rouhani's first-round success in the Iranian elections has sent an strong message to the regime.

I don't know a whole lot about Governor Chris Christie, but I know he worships Springsteen, and he can do this:

Major Gen (Retd) Jim Molan is author of Running the War in Iraq.

Here's a delightful chat between two history buffs, one of whom happens to be the Australian foreign minister, Bob Carr, who was at the Lowy Institute on Wednesday to

Kishore Mahbubani's latest book, The Great Convergence, offers political, strategic and economic analysis on the grandest scale.

Cait Storr is a lawyer, writer and academic at University of Melbourne researching Nauru and other Pacific small island states.