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 ...

[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 ...

Commonwealth friends and colleagues of veteran campaigner Patsy Robertson joined together with members of Patsy’s family to commemorate her remarkable life. The ceremonial tree planting in the gardens ...

Queen Elizabeth II has been a rare constant during 70 years of ever-quickening change, embodying the best of Britain for many people. In two years, she will overtake the French king Louis XIV as 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.] The findings offer critical implications for media, policymakers and ...

[Derek McDougall is a member of the Round Table’s International Advisory Board and brings to an end his Samoa Diary series from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa.] There is a ...

Violated, ignored and threatened. These are just some of the words used to describe the woeful treatment of workers’ rights in Commonwealth countries by a new hard-hitting report. In the past year, ...

What, who is a Pakistani? What does ‘Pakistani’ mean? According to Akbar S. Ahmed (1997, p. 188), the ideological confusion miring Pakistan’s national identity and its failure to invoke a cohesive ...