Publications

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Executive Director Dr Michael Wesley writes that, just as people care less and less about climate change policies, the carbon tax is here

In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Professor Hugh White writes that, while Europe wants a role in Asia, Australia seeks the comfort of old friends

On 21 January, the Lowy Institute for International Policy and the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution co-hosted a panel discussion in Washington, DC on the inaugural address delivered by President Obama the day before. The event was chaired by Carlos Pascual, Vice President of

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Annmaree O'Keeffe writes on the unpredictability of the results of Papua New Guinea's upcoming election

In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Professorial Fellow Warwick McKibbin writes that the crucial flaw in the design of the euro is bearing bitter fruit

Lowy Insitute West Asia Program Director Anthony Bubalo gave an address to the Australia-Arab Chamber of Commerce and Industry, during the 2012 Business Forum and Expo, in Sydney on 5th June 2012. In his address Anthony examines the history of the Australia - Middle East relationship, the challenges

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Fergus Hanson, program director for opinion polling at the Lowy Institute, writes that the 2012 Lowy Institute Poll results reveal that only one third of Australians support costly action against climate change

The eighth annual Lowy Institute Poll reports the results of a nationally representative opinion survey of 1,005 Australian adults conducted in Australia between 26 March and 10 April 2012 using mobile and landline telephones. It also reports the results of a parallel survey conducted in New

Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia, writes in an opinion piece in The Australian that the fall of Bo Xilai, the former party secretary of Chongqing who was stripped of his Communist Party posts for 'serious discipline violations', highlights China's increasingly

Anthony Bubalo, Program Director West Asia, writes in an opinion piece in The Australian on how Egypt's election tests a fragile democracy. The Australian, 23 May 2012, p. 8

In an opinion piece for The Drum, Dr Rodger Shanahan writes that if anyone ever needed a reminder that relying on technology to fight a war can achieve tactical successes while strategic failure threatens, Yemen has provided such a reminder this week. The Drum, 10 May 2012

In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Professorial Fellow Warwick McKibbin asks how the Australian people should judge the success of the 2012/13 Federal budget on Tuesday. Australian Financial Review, 8 May 2012, p. 55

In an opinion piece in The Age, Visiting Fellow Professor Hugh White writes that Australia's status as a middle power is at risk in the Asian century. The Age, 15 May 2012, p. 11

For at least a decade, think tanks and chanceries have echoed with tales of China's rise. The narrative is familiar. China has remade its economy and is now eating the US's lunch. The country is growing rapidly, laying roads and high-speed rail at a frenetic pace. The Chinese authorities sit

Relations between Australia and India have advanced impressively over the past decade. Yet in some ways the ties between these two democracies have continued to fall short of their great potential. This state of affairs provided the background for a major dialogue held in Sydney in late 2011.&

Final submissions in Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into Australia's overseas representation were published by the Committee on 8 May 2012.  In their final submissions, Alex Oliver and Fergus Hanson answer further questions from

In his latest column for the magazine American Review, the Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf looks at the way social media is affecting international relations in 2012: notably in relation to US diplomacy, Chinese political instability, and the US-based online civil society crusade against African

In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White argues that the Army's amphibious-power ambitions do not make strategic sense. The Age, 1 May 2012, p. 11

Anthony Bubalo and Malcolm Cook from the Lowy Institute have published an article titled 'Horizontal Asia' in the May/June 2010 issue of The American Interest. The article argues that the rise of China and India and these two giants' growing ties with the Middle East are undercutting our

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley argues that emotion should not rule in the difficult debate about Australia's alliance with the United States.The Australian, 27 April 2012, p. 10

In an opinion piece in The Age, Sam Roggeveen, editor of the Lowy Institute's blog, The Interpreter, writes on the barrenness of Australia's political blogosphere. A version of  this article is published in the May issue of American Review, the journal of the United States Studies

In a piece extracted in Crikey today (from her original post on The Interpreter on 18 April 2012), Alex Oliver argues the Australia Network plays a fundamental role in Australia’s public diplomacy to the region. Crikey, 19 April 2012 The original Interpreter Blog post can be accessed 

East Asia Program Director Linda Jakobson examines China's expanding role in Africa and the implications for China-EU relations in 'Europe and China: Strategic Partners or Rivals?', a book edited by Dr Roland Vogt and published by Hong Kong University Press. In the chapter, Jakobson and Jacob Wood

Strategic uncertainty in East Asia is leaving nations look to their defences. At the same time, the United States is leading a push to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in international security. In this major international research report, the Lowy Institute's Rory Medcalf and Fiona Cunningham