In the face of such global shifts, he said that “the only power the Commonwealth really has is friendship”.

Mariah Faridah Muli was the winner of the 2025-26 Routledge/ Round Table Commonwealth Studentship Award for a PhD student registered at a member university of the ACU outside the UK .

Exploring Australia’s evolving strategic interests, the levers of Australian influence, and the limits on Australian influence.

The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and Policy Studies.] As the OAU–Abiola legacy shows, reparations discussions have lingered in African regionalism for decades, but there are reasons ...

A first step towards modernity requires dispensing with feudalism. Jinnah, however, never spoke of this nor took any steps towards this end and so, unlike in India, feudalism stayed and consolidated ...

Samoa was named as the host of the next Commonwealth heads of government meeting, due to take place in 2024. It will be the first time the summit has been held in any of the Pacific nations. The ...

The Editor of The Round Table has invited my opinion ‘on the subject of the unfortunate controversy that Queen Elizabeth has been finding herself in recently, namely of racism’. I am uninformed about ...

[This is an excerpt from an article in The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and Policy Studies. Opinions expressed do not reflect the position of the Round Table ...

[This is an excerpt from an article in The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.] In May 2023, a violent spate of events related to ethnic violence and conflict began in ...

In recent years there have been an increasing number of significant challenges to the post-WWII rules-based world order: from the continued erosion of multilateralism, the unravelling of the UN, the ...

The 15th general elections elections saw the remarkable comeback for Anwar Ibrahim. From the time he was sacked as deputy prime minister in 1998, it took 24 years before he ascended to Malaysia’s ...

[This article was written for the Commonwealth Round Table website. Opinions expressed in articles do not reflect the position of the editorial board.] In the first 20 years of this century, the UK ...