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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

[This is an excerpt from an article in The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and Policy Studies.] In light of the unfolding situation around deleterious American tariffs ...

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