This site provides free access to the fourth annual public opinion poll conducted by Australian research centre the Lowy Institute for International Policy. The 26 page report presents the findings of a survey into the foreign policy attitudes of typical Australians. Topics covered include attitudes towards Austrlain foreign policy and policy in the world, the US presidential election, Australia’...

A bond between president and the secretary of state helps when it comes to executing foreign policy. While Mrs Clinton's relationship with Mr Obama is cordial, one would be hard-pressed to call them buddies

Gideon Rachman says that the most important stop on Obama's European tour is not the well-scripted meeting in London, but Turkey: This is the one bit of the trip that it is very hard to script in advance - and the stakes are very high. Will Obama use his speech to the Turkish parliament to make the long-promised big statement on the relationship between the West and the Islamic world? Can he ...

Below is an interview first published in Der Spiegel with Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's new Foreign Minister, before being appointed he served as foreign policy advisor to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. One of his responsibilities was to advise Erdogan on Turkey's relationship with its neighbour Iran and the wider middle east. He played an important role in attempting to end Op...

I missed these survey results when they came out last month. They paint an interesting picture of Iranian public opinion, as opposed to the 'official' pronouncements which are reported over here and in the US. While Iranians, like many other Muslim populations, have negative opinions of the U.S. government and U.S. foreign policy, they have a mildly positive image of the American people,...

If Barack Obama's approval of the raid to get Osama bin Laden showed off his hawkish side, it also pushed into the public eye an adviser whose role in US foreign policy has become as important as it is unpublicised

The election of Barack Obama as US president will "seriously narrow the policy differences" between Europe and the US, write Daniel Korski, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), et al. in a December paper.

Perhaps America's most effective UN Ambassador and nuclear proliferation expert John Bolton has a sobering and entirely accurate reading of President Obama's foreign policy...or rather, his non-policy. Bolton shows that the current occupant of the White House is essentially uninterested in foreign policy and national security, something I first theorized on these pages some time ago. Her...

Some more pieces on the EU Federalist puzzle have fallen into place today with President Obama's public backing of a Federal Europe, we are about to see a change to the open foreign policy between the US and Europe. Nile Gardiner writing in the Daily Telegraph, here, says that President Obama will be travelling to Europe in two weeks as the first President to be openly supportive of the creation o...

El Pais reports that although the majority of negotiations went well at Sunday’s EU-US summit in Prague, President Obama clashed with the Franco-German alliance over Turkish accession to the EU. President Obama said Turkey's entry into the EU would help to consolidate its position as a Western nation.