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 .

The PhD studentships provide support for research projects on Commonwealth-related themes. Two studentships are available each year, to the maximum value of £5,500 GBP each: One for students ...

Chatham House: The first hundred years edited by Michael Cox, Christopher Hill, Alex May and Caroline Soper, Oxford, Oxford ...

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

[This is an excerpt from an article appearing in the special edition on India at 75 of The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.] Soon after its independence in 1947, Indian ...

[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 ...

Lastly, ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) has successfully presented itself as a valuable partner to other regional powers due to its sustained efforts to ensure peace and economic ...

[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 ...

Two years ago, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies secured funding from the Open Society Foundations to run a pilot project on the Commonwealth and decriminalization of poverty and status. As Louise ...

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 ...

The Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ghana; Joshua Phoho Setipa, a former Minister of Trade and Industry in Lesotho and former Managing Director of ...