Queensland businesswoman reflects on her role in forging ties with China.

Secretary Clinton has made 21st Century Statecraft a key part of the Department's foreign policy agenda, using technology, digital networks, and innovation to meet the diplomatic and development challenges of the 21st century. She wants us to take "smart risks," utilizing these new communications tools in innovative ways in pursuit of our policy objectives.

In a new paper, East Asia Program Director Linda Jakobson argues that the weak relationship between Canberra and Beijing is hurting Australia's ability to exert influence in the region.

On June 12, 2012 recent International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) participants Chantel Kapp-Marais and Chiza (Charles) Chiumya visited the U.S. Mission to the African Union (USAU) to brief USAU Public Diplomacy Officer Jasmine White on their experiences during their visit to the United States.

'Diplomat-poet' Abhay K has explored the intertwining of local with global, in his new book of poems which has been inspired by the famed global linguist Noam Chomsky's concept of universal common denominators.

"A lot of people are really excited that we are opening the Arabic Film Festival with a Palestinian film," said Fadia Abboud, a community worker at the Parramatta-based Information and Cultural Exchange, which has organised the festival.

The Rio+20 summit produced a largely meaningless document that failed to address the daunting environmental challenges the world faces.

Growing conflicts over who owns water and how to manage it are emerging all over the world. Although debates at the UN and among civil society have moved toward the recognition of water as a basic human right, the United States still lags behind.