Last month, the BRICS countries held their 16th summit in the Russian city of Kazan, this time featuring an expanding ...

“Tariff” might be Trump’s favourite word underpinning his threat to apply a 60 per cent imposts on Chinese imports and 10 per on everyone else. This was one of his strongest election themes, despite ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? Finding the answer to this vital question would deserve a Nobel Prize. Indeed, that is the motivation of this year’s economic award, awarded to Acemoglu, ...

The climate is warming. Ice is melting. Storms are brewing. We are at five minutes to midnight, with disasters set to increase in frequency and intensity. Climate change is now widely accepted, ...

Has Indonesia surrendered its position on the South China Sea? Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto visited China this week, and on 9 November Beijing released a joint statement in English claiming a ...

Hannah Lord is a PhD student and Sir Roland Wilson scholar, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University.