The UK is closer than it has been in years to a cross-party consensus on Russia. Labour and the Conservatives now share a justified perception of Russia as a clear threat to the UK as well as its allies and partners in Europe. Their mutual recognition of Russia’s malign behaviour, however, obscures a mutual failure to elaborate a detailed vision of what Britain’s relations with Russia should look like.

The protests in India are in response to three new laws which affect farmers, passed in September 2020. Taken together, the laws loosen rules around sale, pricing and storage of farm produce – rules which have protected India's farmers from being undercut by the free market for decades.

Now that the UK has officially left the EU, the Conservative Government may decide to shift ODA spending along regional or cultural lines, for example by increasing aid to countries within the Commonwealth to bolster British influence.

The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy is an ongoing, cross-governmental review launched in 2019. The review is expected to be published in March 2021, though this is later than originally planned and there has been some speculation that this could be delayed even further.

On the morning of Monday 1 February, Myanmar’s military seized power from the Government in a coup, detaining de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior members of the country’s ruling party.

The US–UK relationship is often defined in terms of military and intelligence collaboration. This view however misses a number of other key elements that also layer and shape this relationship.

Sri Lankan Muslims have been left stripped of their human rights amid a new wave of cases of the government forcibly cremating Muslims under the guise of COVID-19 regulations.

The Kashmir conflict is both a struggle for land and a debate about the right of people to determine their future. To date, no consensus has been reached by India and Pakistan, nor with the people, on the future of the region.

Labour must defend the UK’s world-leading status when it comes to the delivery of overseas development aid spending.

China continues to deflect international condemnation of the state-run detention camps, and also contends that freedom of religious belief is protected by law in Xinjiang.