Diplomacy & Crisis News

Defense Secretary Ash Carter turns the tables on Sen. John McCain.

A UN report finds that torture remains "deeply entrenched" in China's criminal justice system.

The brave women spearheading female suffrage in the kingdom are worried that the forthcoming vote might not be the revolution they had hoped for.

The director of the FBI says the San Bernardino shooters were radicalized before they met.

Despite a significant reduction in hostilities in eastern Ukraine in the last few months in a conflict that has already left over 9,000 people dead and nearly 21,000 injured, serious human rights concerns persist, including killings, torture and impunity, the United Nations reported today.

The world is making “significant progress” toward malaria elimination with prevention and treatment efforts saving more than 660 million lives and $900 million in case management costs since 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported.

"The world has somehow shifted," wrote one of the hundred-plus surveyed by FP.

In their 2003 article “Where Do the Peacekeepers Go?”, Michael Gilligan and Stephen John Stedman observed that the literature on the determinants of peacekeeping suffered from several methodological problems. The most prominent of these was “a tendency to select cases on the basis of the dependent variable and, by doing so, to restrict the sample to peacekeeping operations that the UN has chosen to undertake”. This led characteristics that these cases had in common to be used as the basis for understanding UN intervention, while ignoring the cases of civil wars or interstate aggression in which UN peacekeepers had not been present. The result was analysis that could not fully address the factors responsible for the decision to intervene.

As details emerge, the key question will be how did the attackers breach the airport’s security?

Venezuela is on the edge. In a stunning defeat of the country’s ruling party—the greatest setback in over ten years for the movement created by the late Hugo Chávez—voters overwhelmingly supported the opposition Democratic Unity (MUD) alliance in Sunday’s parliamentary elections. In the early hours of December 7, the election authority (CNE) said the MUD had won 99 of 167 seats, with 22 still to be determined. The MUD, however, claimed 112, which would just be enough to give it two-thirds “super-majority” needed, for example, to convene a constituent assembly.

If you’re not crying, you’re not making the hard choices that are part of strategy.

From the grand old man of military personnel policy scholars.

A year after the state secrets law passed, what impact is it having on freedom in Japan?

The NLD victory in Myanmar's general election has China wondering if it needs to change its diplomatic approach.

The trip could see some further boosts to cooperation between the two Asian giants.

Welcome to the city of Sa Dec, where the river is turned into brick houses.

Though there's been some good news of late, there's still a long way to go.

Moscow faces competition in attempting to sell its most modern jet in Asia. Its best selling point is still politics.

A former deputy PM expresses frustration on U.S. gun control policy – and the alliance with Australia.

China’s corruption investigations need to be more transparent if markets are to thrive.