Publications

In an opinion piece in The Straits Times, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes on the importance of the United States-China relationship for the Asian region

In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal Asia, Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia, compares the recent anti-Japanese protests to similar anti-Japanese sentiment which swept across China seven years ago. This time around, the consequences could be much more serious

In response to more widespread Somali piracy attacks and soaring crew ransoms, shipping companies are turning to private military security companies to provide both armed guards and armed patrol boats to fight pirates in the Indian Ocean. Military Fellow James Brown discussed research findings from

Michael Fullilove, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, and Mark Thirlwell, interim Director of the Institute's new G20 Studies Centre, write for the Business Spectator on the importance of Australia's membership of the G20

At the press conference annoucing the establishment of a G20 Studies Centre at the Lowy Institute,  Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove gave a  short statement statement thanking the Federal Government for their support and outlined the importance of the G20 to Australia.&

In an opinion piece for Crikey, Rodger Shanahan, a Non-resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, steps back from the daily news cycle and takes stock of the Arab Spring, 18 months in. He finds the movement has become more confused and less about democracy

On Thursday 11 June 2009, the Lowy Institute held its sixth annual New Voices conference for early and mid-career professionals, which this year discussed networks. The outcomes report can be downloaded here. 

Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Wesley delivered the 2012 Vernon Parker Oration to the Australian Naval Institute at the Australian Defence College in Canberra on 14 August 2012.  He  addressed the positions of America and China within the Pacific

In his latest column in the American Review, the Lowy Institute's Rory Medcalf examines the different character and impacts of social media in China and India, and asks: can the microblog change the megastates? The column can be read here

In this review of Hugh White's book The China choice, published in The Diplomat, the Lowy Institute's Rory Medcalf focuses on the great difficulties facing a U.S.-China grand bargain and an Asian 'concert of powers'. He argues that it is right to warn of the risks of U.S.-China

Rory Medcalf, Program Director International Security, writes in an opinion piece in The Australian that arguments that Washington should cede a sphere of influence to Beijing are too neat

The transcript of a speech to the Lowy Institute by Senator the Hon. Bob Carr, Minister for Foreign Affairs is available here.  The speech is also available at: http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/2012/bc_sp_120727.html

International Economy Program Director Mark Thirlwell is a contributor to a CIGI-Brookings Institution project on National Perspectives on Global Leadership.  The seventh instalment of the Soundings Series, looking at the Los Cabos G20 Summit, is now available for download here. 

Australia’s choices in the Indo-Pacific Asian century will not simply involve China and the United States. India, too, needs to be in the picture. In this lecture delivered at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi in mid-2012, the Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf outlines the impact of a

Rory Medcalf, Program Director International Security, writes in Crikey that the recent spats over Australia's foreign policy amount to a phoney war and mask the lack of debate on the international issues that should matter

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley writes that the South China Sea has far-reaching consequences, and Canberra can help

In this speech, delivered at the 2012 South China Sea conference at CSIS in Washington DC, the Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf offers some realistic recommendations on boosting security in the contested South China Sea, including through establishing a regional information centre to report maritime

In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that Washington's global ambitions exceed its power — and that spells trouble for Australia

The Lowy Institute for International Policy hosted the first ever public address by a Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) in the organisation’s 60-year history, on Thursday, 19 July in Canberra. The ASIS Director-General, Nick Warner, provided a rare

In an opinion piece for The Jakarta Globe, Visiting Fellow Professor Hugh White writes on the difficulties Australia will face in adjusting to a stronger Indonesia in the Asian Century

  Progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Asia-Pacific region is mixed. Asia is generally progressing well while the Pacific is lagging behind, and in several cases countries are in fact regressing. Since the signing of the Millennium Declaration in 2000 there has

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Rory Medcalf, Program Director International Security, writes that there is little hope that the ASEAN Forum will resolve differences over the South China Sea

In this 2010 working paper, Mark Thirlwell looks at the changing shape of a global economy that was born with the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. 

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Non-resident Fellow Dr Rodger Shanahan writes that wiser men behind the Iranian President will keep his finger off the nuclear button