Afghanistan and Pakistan returned to prominence in 2008 after several years on the periphery.

Ralph Nader is the reason for seatbelts, product labelling and the Environmental Protection Agency.

In the past 12 months Burma’s military regime, the State Peace and Development Council (SP DC), has been under intense international scrutiny.

Never have the effects of terrorism been so directly felt in the heartland of the Pakistan establishment, and never have the challenges for the Government of Pakistan in crafting a response been so difficult.

The ancient temples around Durbar Square in Kathmandu flutter with pigeons and prayer flags as tourists mill around and hippies blow smoke down Freak Street.

Australia’s new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is happy to consider a rough model along such lines. His target year for establishing it is 2020. On June 4, a keen Rudd sketched a few ideas for the Asia Society Australasia Centre in Sydney.

Xinjiang is a critically important region to the Chinese government. Firstly, Xinjiang’s Tarim Basin has the country’s fastest-growing oil and gas fields, and potential reserves could also make them the largest.

Tibet is much more than just the Chinese-controlled province of the TAR. Taking into account the real size of Tibet…

As a key player in the rise of neoconservatism within the US government, and author of the contentious treatise The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama has an intimate understanding of the Washington scene that formulates so much of US foreign policy.

Kevin Rudd has come to power at a time when the balancing act Australia faces in maintaining good relationships with the major Asian powers has never been so fraught or complex.

The Rudd Government has begun to put Australia’s relations with the Pacific on a new and better footing since taking office.

If you ask foreign policy wonks in New Delhi what they think of India’s ties to Australia, there usually follows a brief, slightly perplexed silence.

A solemn prayer and a stirring rendition of the West Papuan national anthem kick-started the gathering in a house behind the little South Seas church in Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila.

On February 5, Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith assured his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi, that Canberra had corrected the feng shui of a disturbing piece of the region’s diplomatic architecture.

Daily Star columnist Harun Rashid considers Sino-India ties and the prospects for future co-operation between the two nations.

Four years after a historic nuclear deal was signed, many in American policy circles deride the agreement as a failure. They’re wrong.