Their interests lay in supplying cheap cotton to British mills in return for being a market for factory-made goods from Manchester and Lancashire. As a contemporary economist Henry C. Carey wrote in ...

Since taking over Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban regime has faced escalating tensions with neighbouring countries, particularly over water issues and regional security. The regime’s deadly ...

While Australia is a major producer of raw materials, it remains heavily dependent on China for midstream processing and downstream manufacturing.

Indeed, the election result in November was a victory both for Donald Trump and for the more than 100,000 users of online prediction markets, such as Polymarket, Kalshi and PredictIt, willing to make ...

Corneliu Bjola is Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies in the Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. Bjola received his PhD in Political Science ...

Michael Pezzullo was appointed as CEO of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service on 15 February 2013. Prior to this, Mr Pezzullo was Acting Chief Executive Officer September 2012, ...

Ambassador Chan Heng Chee is Ambassador-at-Large with the Singapore Foreign Ministry. She is Chairman of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities in the Singapore University of Technology and ...