World Bank member countries have pledged $75 billion in lending to the world’s poorest countries over the next three years.

Will the well-established independence the Fed currently enjoys come under threat from a Trump administration, with its unconventional economic ideas?

If Myanmar dares to defy the pro-dam lobby, the dream of peace, friendship and cross-border cooperation could become a reality.

DFAT's new strategy, Abe's meetings, political instability in Italy and more.

The key for the Australian Government now is shifting from seeing the internet as a tool of communications to leveraging it as a tool of foreign policy.

As the year winds down, it is time to look back on the biggest stories in the always-tense northeast Asian region.

One can only imagine President Trump’s contributions to the G20 summit next year.

The Games of Thrones-style struggle now underway between the stranded Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the enlivened Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is getting murkier by the day.

The EU’s prestige, normative standards and soft power have been relentlessly eroded by the Turkish government led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Merkel has vowed to deport many new arrivals and a bill to open deportation camps has just been passed.

A peace treaty with Russia is the holy grail of Japanese diplomacy.

Why didn’t the world’s media shift some focus onto the armed groups inside Aleppo and ask what they were achieving by being there?

The most effective thing Australia can do now is to lean in to the confused situation in Washington.

Leung’s rule completely disrupted the balance of city’s political power, as evident in the escalating scale and intensity of public protests.

The view from Tokyo on world and regional affairs at the moment is perhaps best described as sitting on the edge of a game of go.

Most attention since Tillerson emerged as favorite for State has focused on his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In the Fairfax papers yesterday, Tom Switzer poked some well-deserved fun at the Australian political commentariat's collective failure to get the Trump phenomenon right.

Rather than historical amnesia, the problem Australian prime ministers will encounter with Donald Trump is historical illiteracy.

Policy needs to seize the best options in a complex industry.

A successful digital media strategy may result in diplomats becoming less prominent.

The myth at the heart of the sentimentalist view of the alliance is it draws its strength and durability from the fundamental values and historical connections that we share rather than from a mere alignment of interests.

Renzi’s fall is destined to have repercussions in Europe for various reasons, including the stability of Italy's banking system.

What happened on The Interpreter this week?

Unfortunately, the attention that both journalists and audiences pay to Trump is (at least in part) attention unpaid elsewhere.

Hard thinking is needed, free of the emotional trammels that so often accompany the alliance debate.

Our nearest neighbours deserve further funding of Pacific-oriented ABC services.

Laos' 'success' on the Mekong could prove deeply costly for the people of Cambodia and Vietnam.

The 2011 election was a shock for the government. In response, while broadly maintaining its immigration policy, the government pursued a policy of across-the-board attention to the concerns that the election had highlighted.

Russia’s belligerence in Ukraine gave the US an opportunity to constrain Russia’s economy and its economic expansion across Eurasia.

The call suggests Trump finds it odd the Chinese Communist Party would pre-determine which fellow democratically elected leaders he should shun.

If Australian support for the AIIB is so driven by coal exports, the government's commitment to sustainable regional development should be questioned.

The loudest complaint is she has failed to do anything about the plight of the mostly stateless Rohingya Muslims.

China is likelier to retaliate is against Taiwan itself.

It would serve no western interests to leave Assad with no option but to look to Iran and Russia for ongoing support.

Sold as a celebration of European unity in diversity, the euro is today experienced as an instrument of brutal homogenisation.

This two-part series examines how US sanctions have kept Putin's empire building in check.

Chinese-style economic diplomacy is focused more on the ‘hardware’ of economic cooperation and less on the ‘software’.

The volume provides an understanding of the inner structures guiding Riyadh’s decision making on the global stage.

The gradual isolation and strangulation of Aleppo is part of a much broader strategy that has taken shape over the past year.

The market can look after efficiency, but governments have to look after equity.

Uncertainty and renewed contest likely in New Zealand politics after PM's surprise resignation.

If the market for a resource declines significantly, the impact is felt not only by shareholders.

As I facetiously said on a number of occasions during my recent abortive run for the Senate, you cannot have too many generals in parliament.

James Mattis has nothing in his record to suggest he is a crude partisan.

In Australia the political reaction was remarkably muted, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten declining to make a statement.