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International Amrita Malhi 12 January 2018 This year’s election will be a fight not only for government but also over the legacy of the country’s most successful party

International Lesley Russell 11 January 2018 The electoral prospects are hard to read as the United States enters midterm-election year

International David Hayes 10 January 2018 Britain’s liberal beacon is scaling down but thinking big

International Michael Leach 5 January 2018 Only presidential action will resolve the impasse brought on by last year’s inconclusive election

International R. Tousi 4 January 2018 The latest protests reveal rising discontent outside the major cities

International Klaus Neumann 22 December 2017 As the shape of the new government becomes clearer, Germany’s longest-running police show illuminates the political challenge ahead

International Sally McCausland 22 December 2017 Podcasts | It started slowly, but became the best-known of all political scandals

International Klaus Neumann 13 December 2017 The bid to create a UN convention on territorial asylum might have failed, but it points to possibilities still worth pursuing

International David Hayes 12 December 2017 The novelist’s week in Stockholm was an experimental opening towards a new public voice

International Nic Maclellan 11 December 2017 With a referendum on self-determination due in a year’s time, young Kanaks are debating their future

International David Hayes 6 December 2017 How the post-Weinstein furore shook British politics

International Norman Abjorensen 22 November 2017 A Marcos-era project has caught the imagination of Philippine politicians who favour a return to authoritarian rule — despite its failure to produce a single watt of saleable…

International Timothy J. Sinclair 21 November 2017 Attempts to regulate rating agencies haven’t been notably successful. But perhaps the diagnosis was wrong

International Michael Bartos 16 November 2017 As the army asserts control, the legacy of the struggle against colonialism still hangs over Zimbabwean politics

International Norman Abjorensen 10 November 2017 Letter from Manila | Even the highest reaches of the law might not be immune to Rodrigo Duterte’s assault on accountability

International Rodney Tiffen 7 November 2017 The Panama Papers looked like the culmination of a new era for leakers — and then the Paradise Papers came along. But can we expect action to follow?

International Travers McLeod 30 October 2017 There are no quick fixes for a crisis like the forced displacement of Myanmar’s Rohingya, but a new collaboration has been preparing the way for an effective regional approach

International Kerry Brown 28 October 2017 What did an orderly party congress reveal about China’s priorities for the next half-decade?

International Michael Leach 24 October 2017 The political stalemate in Timor-Leste has three possible outcomes

International Walter Hamilton 23 October 2017 Bad weather and new parties weren’t enough to loosen Shinzo Abe’s grip on Japanese politics. But a low turnout suggests widespread dissatisfaction

International Peter Brent 19 October 2017 Beware of what excitable headline-writers and the betting markets say about Donald Trump’s chances of serving two terms

International John Tilemann 16 October 2017 White House decisions are making life harder for America’s allies, and not just in the Middle East

International Graeme Smith 16 October 2017 Exaggerated fears about China’s intentions reflect a misunderstanding of what’s happening in the region

International Walter Hamilton 15 October 2017 Despite a high-profile new party, Japanese voters still don’t have a real alternative, writes a former ABC correspondent

International David Hayes 10 October 2017 Letter from London | A Nobel award gives the British novelist’s voice as well as his work a new authority

International Graeme Dobell 10 October 2017 Letter from Washington | Six weeks in Trump territory leaves our correspondent worried but grateful

International Graeme Smith 5 October 2017 Large-scale arrests by Chinese police in Fiji throw light on China’s justice system

International Luke Hunt 4 October 2017 Is China’s harsh brand of media control serving as a role model for its neighbours?

International Tim Colebatch 2 October 2017 Life is still good for many Italians, but bad decisions are deepening the north–south divide

International Nic Maclellan 27 September 2017 North Korea’s threat to detonate a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean echoes the US nuclear missile tests of the early 1960s. As this extract from Nic Maclellan’s new book…