Bec Strating

A reminder that politics can be messy, complex and seemingly contradictory – and that’s just one person.

When Britain leased Diego Garcia to the US to become a Cold War military base, did it have sovereign rights to do so?

What might be called second tier players, when acting together, can have a profound influence to shape the region.

The novel mechanism that solved the Timor Sea dispute may not have the same success in other complex and highly contested cases across the region.