Here are five political leaders from around the world who are emerging as significant talents and possible contenders for influence in 2017 and beyond.
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China’s new freight train line to London is part of an increasing web of trade routes designed to boost the country’s influence abroad.
More than ever, Pine Gap remains at the heart of the Australian alliance with the United States, but serious reform is needed.
Skin whitening among women has long been commonplace, but now young Asian men too, are using a plethora of whitening products.
The reasons for banning compensated surrogacy in developing countries don’t apply in Australia.
China will have to play by international rules on transparency and accountability if it wants to secure its place as a leader for economic development in Asia.
As cities trumpet their liveability, creativity and greenness, many informal settlement activities are often relegated to the shadows.
Shifts in southeast Asian countries’ political leadership has led to another worrying region-wide shift: away from liberalism.
The heir to Thailand’s throne, Maha Vajiralongkorn, enters his reign with no authority other than that of the office he now holds.
Despite growing concerns about possible declining American power and influence, the US still dominates the region upon which Australia has increasingly come to depend.
Nations can choose their friends – and their enemies – but they can’t choose their geography. Australia is fortunate to enjoy one of the most strategically benign locations in the world, but this hasn’t…
Unless managed more effectively, forced migration will have permanent and intensifying negative impacts on countries across the globe.
US presidents over the past 25 years have had varying views of the alliance with Australia. While none have questioned its value, commitment has not been even across the board.
There are some rather remarkable aspects of the increasingly heated debate about China’s influence in Australia. First, the idea that China actually has any “soft power” to exert is actually rather surprising…
Tajikistan, a longstanding human rights violator, has been cracking down harshly on what’s left of its political opposition.
Calling Barack Obama a ‘son of a whore’ was just another PR disaster for a country already subject to lazy stereotypes.
One thing became dramatically apparent in the economic sphere following the Cold War: capitalism was ubiquitous, but it looked very different in Japan, Germany, the US and China.
Almost 70 years after Indian independence, tribes once classed as criminals are still fighting for their freedom.
To understand Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to power and the public support for killing drug dealers and users, we need to distinguish the empirical from the normative – the ‘what is’ from ‘what should be’.
Our inward focus on marriage equality means Australia is largely absent from efforts to increase respect for LGBTI people in our region.
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Professor of International Studies, La Trobe University
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Honorary Associate in Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Online Learning Advisor - Security and International Relations, Swinburne University of Technology
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Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University
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Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Weldon E. Thornton Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Gilles Pison is a Friend of The Conversation.
Anthropologue et démographe, professeur émérite, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN); Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques)
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Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
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Professor in Korean Studies, Tufts University
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Professor of History, Tufts University
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Lecturer and Teacher, Department of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Tony Walker AM is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, La Trobe University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra