Unlike its missile and nuclear programs, which North Korean leaders proudly parade and test, Pyongyang denies it possesses chemical weapons. So what are North Korea's capabilities?

On Anzac Day it is worth spending just a little time thinking about the tasks we may call on our present and future service members to perform.

As China turns its attention to the provision of regional public goods, Australia and New Zealand have a strategic opportunity to shape these activities.

The most destabilising outcome from the current tensions would be if Kim concludes that Trump's bluff can be called, consequence-free.

Elections across the world, what Australian businesses want from Australia's foreign policy, and more.

Links on the growing collection of international actors using and manipulating cyberspace to fulfil international ambitions and shape global developments.

As long as China doesn't challenge the fundamental system of rule in Russia (as the US does), then it will remain a preferred partner if not an ally.

Jakarta election signals rising intolerance and demonstrates the influence of hard-line Muslim groups, spelling trouble for President Jokowi.

The auguries could not be better for Theresa May to smash a divided Labour and put Tory troglodytes back in their cave.

Trump’s signature mix of tough talk and feeble action is having exactly the effect his critics always expected and feared. It weakens America’s position in Asia, and strengthens China’s.

Duterte's visit to the Gulf, climate change and population movement, Global Compacts and more.

If the Conservatives are returned with a large majority, EU negotiators will know there is a limit to how far they can push Britain.

Business group submissions for the Foreign Policy White Paper will provide the first big test of the Australian Government's 'economic diplomacy' rhetoric.

Western interests and norms are challenged less by the Sino-Russian partnership than by China and Russia acting individually.

Western conservatives and free-market liberals appear to be losing their ideological and moral bearings when it comes to French politics in this dramatic election year.

British Prime Minister Theresa May's political calculation is so simple, and the polls are clear. Surely nothing could go wrong.

Non-citizen technical advisers in PNG, road safety across the Pacific, regional health challenges and more.

Instead of grasping the opportunity presented by anti-migrant sentiment across the world, the Turnbull Government yesterday decided to join the party.

Despite the excitement of the last few days, the fundamentals have not changed.

What should we make of Japan’s apparent U-turn on pursuing a Trans Pacific Partnership agreement without the US?

It’s been a strange few weeks at the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs.

On 19 May, Iranians will go to the polls to elect their next President. President Hassan Rouhani seems to be on his way to a victory, but not an easy one.

With populations displaced, land ownership is sure to feature as a key source of internal friction for years after the conclusion of hostilities.

Turkey’s democracy didn’t die on Sunday; it was already dead. Now the country must live with a democratically-elected dictator.

There is no rigorous evaluation or evidence to demonstrate that CVE programs have reduced radicalisation and extremism

The Swedish terrorist attack, the dissolution of the Australia-Timor-Leste maritime treaty, the future of China's economic rise and more.

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Moving the USS Carl Vinson intensifies pressure on China to break out of the current impasse. How will Beijing react to Trump’s gambit?

The Palestinian Authority's decision to reduce Gaza-based salaries by 30% is a direct result of fiscal constraints. However, mounting political pressures have compounded the problem.

Without an agreement, Timor-Leste will be left with very few sources of revenue outside its $16 billion petroleum sovereign wealth fund.

How refugee health workers could fulfil skill shortages, how many foreign nationals make up the UK labour market, and more.

It is in our interests for these two Compacts to be as complementary as possible and for our region’s experience to help shape both.

The bomb attacks on Coptic churches in Egypt highlights the occasional focus by Islamist groups on Christian targets in the Middle East.

This week's links also cover a corruption arrest in the Solomon Islands and Fiji's custom involving sperm whale teeth in the New York Times.

It’s likely that Colombo’s willingness to co-sponsor another UN resolution is an attempt to deflect international pressure.

Tough talk with the US on war debt and the budding new relationship with China are indicative of an unpopular leader steeling for elections.

The IIIM is not is not a panacea. Its tasks are very specific. Nation states now have to step up to the plate.

The legal precedent may not have come in time to put any curbs or restraints on the controversial Xayaburi and the Don Sahong dams now being built on the Mekong.

Congratulations to Joe Hockey for anticipating Trump's win. But perhaps it was not simply a matter of elites being out of touch, as his analysis suggests.

The scandal that felled Park Geun-Hye has been covered extensively elsewhere. Here are three broader lessons in political science.

Solving China's financial sector problems doesn't depend on the fickle global financial sector. Instead, China has to address some domestic issues.

Australia would be well placed if it established a set of principles for migration when negotiating trade and other deals.

Russia’s adaptation to the asymmetry in relations with China stands in stark contrast to its clash with the EU over Ukraine and Eastern Europe in general.

Even if it was ahead of its time in 2007, the contemporary strategic logic of reviving the Quad is compelling.

Perhaps most telling - and for Swedes, the most heartening - response is the attitude displayed toward police in the wake of the attack.

The structural underpinnings that allowed for the emergence and growth of violent jihadists in Egypt are the result of decades of official and unofficial discriminatory policies against Copts.

Trapped no longer: Asia's emerging economies given an out, Turnbull in India, and David Irvine take the reins at the FIRB,

Any progress in terms of trade and investment flows will be incremental, and probably unaffected by politicians posturing.

CRAs holding back Indonesia, why an Australia-China extradition treaty was always a bad idea, Vietnamese trawlers at Scarborough Shoal, and more.

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