Given Macron’s lack of experience, French officials who know New Caledonia will need to continue to mediate this final phase of the Noumea Accord.

Sorting truth from propaganda in a war as complex as the Syrian conflict sometimes seems like an impossible task.

On the one hand any agreement that brings relief to Syria's civilians should be supported. But the lack of trust between sides has not disappeared.

Only regulatory certainty will ensure that Indonesia's resources are ‘used for the greatest possible prosperity of the people’.

Renzi has assured party loyalists that after his primary win, PD will return to first place in the polls by the end of May.

In recent years the amount of Australian aid has continued to fall down the world's rankings.

Although the experts who are downplaying the commercial significance of the C919 are not wrong, perhaps their frame of reference is too narrow.

Blank reiterates the popular, but implausible, claim that Xi's determination to be strongest ruler in China since Mao is influenced by Putin.

We will need more than the warm and cordial summit on board USS Intrepid to address the creeping problem in the alliance.

Is this the end of US primacy? How should we discuss the 'threat' posed by terrorism? And what's going on in South Korea politics?

There's momentum in many parts of the rugby league relationship between Australia and PNG – but more can be done.

This week's include China's mission to build its own Wikipedia, Thailand's bid to put a lid on government criticism and more on China's diplomatic stunt in Perth.

The intensifying contest for the internet economy raises the prospect of US and Chinese tech titans carving the world into digital spheres of influence.

Trump's coziness with Duterte, and sympathetic words for other strongmen around the world, sends a worrying message to a region already moving in an illiberal direction.

Macron's future will be determined not only by his win, but by his margin of victory.

The view of Australian ministers in the 1960s and leading up to independence in 1975 was that PNG was doomed to fragment – and quite rapidly.

European and Australian approaches to border control, 'Refuge', trends in US H-1B visas and more.

China’s online platforms are now distinct from their US-designed counterparts and in some respects more advanced.

This week's column examines some different views on global supply chains in the age of robotics, new figures on Chinese investment in Australia, and some unusual criticism of One Belt One Road from China's elite.

The primary right-wing candidate in next week's election is now calling himself the ‘Donald Trump of Korea'.

If the media continues cutting expertise, resources and reporters, then we need to face down a future of getting scooped. On our home turf. By Zimbabwe.

This week's links include constitutional change in Samoa, the politics of tuna fishing and Fiji's plea to Trump on climate change.

Asia's leaders know to take the bluster of Trump's initial policy statements with a heaping of salt and await more nuanced follow-up from his senior staff.

President Trump’s first phone contact with three Southeast Asian leaders was to gain their diplomatic support for a US concern in Northeast Asia.

Yemen has been rather prominent in the Trump Administration's foreign policy agenda.

The trap is to mistakenly conflate the threat of death from terrorism with the threat from terrorism.

Responding to North Korea’s threats is the perfect opportunity to start a new chapter in the US-Japan-Australia security relationship.

It would be difficult to imagine Turnbull arriving in New York with nothing to offer Trump.

ASEAN Summits are largely defined by what is left unresolved and unsaid, rather than what is acknowledged in the chair statements.

How development professionals think Mark Zuckerberg should direct his charity dollars, the latest foreign aid stats and sweatshops: a road to nowhere.

The reasons behind Japan's about-face on a TPP-11 may become clearer later this month.

Australia’s regional engagement in the years ahead can never be conceived within the US/China framework alone.

Relative peace and stability is entirely possible without US dominance. But this will require an honest evaluation of the limits of US power and influence.

China's new aircraft carrier, Ivanka Trump at W20, India's Quad concerns and more.

The combined power of beauty, politics and celebrity is extraordinary, if utterly depressing to witness firsthand. Will that exposure translate to more support for the W20 agenda?

To mark 100 days of the Trump presidency, we've updated our timeline of all Lowy Institute research papers, opinion pieces, media interviews and Interpreter posts.

The economic uncertainty that faces Nauru when offshore detention inevitably ceases again is another chapter in an unfolding experiment of statehood.

The results of the first round of the French Presidential elections create new uncertainties for the French Pacific, particularly in New Caledonia.

The myth told and re-told in the West is that North Korea, the 'hermit kingdom' and 'pariah state', is cut off from the outside world.

Can Beijing act as a guarantor of regional security and stability? North Korea may provide the litmus test.

Why Trump's border wall won't happen, 'hot spot' approaches to irregular migration in Italy and Greece, and more.

Myanmar's first year of (disciplined) democracy should not be written off. For all its faults, Suu Kyi's NLD government has made modest progress in some areas.

China's carrier program is symbolic of the power shift in the Asia Pacific. Short of an economic or political crisis in China, this shift probably can't be stopped; it can only be managed.

It's not often in politics that a window of opportunity opens as wide as the one Theresa May is looking into right now.

Indian policymakers still shy away from a grand maritime alliance in the Indo-Pacific.

Should Macron win, you won't need to be a supporter of Le Pen's to believe that French democracy will be worse off.

Prabowo may want a rematch with Jokowi, but there’s no reason that Baswedan must toe the line.