Publications

On 21 September, the Hon Peter Costello MP, Treasurer, addressed the Lowy Institute for International Policy. In his speech entitled "International Demographic and Economic Change, and What It Means for Australia", Mr Costello identified the economic rise of China and India as the dominant narrative

On Thursday 25 May 2006 the Lowy Institute held its third annual New Voices conference on the subject of Technology and International Relations. The conference outcomes report can be downloaded here

On Thursday 31 March 2005, the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon. John Howard, MP, delivered the inaugural Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World. The Lecture was given at a dinner at the Westin Hotel in Sydney. The Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World will be delivered annually by a person of

On 21 June at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Dr David Skilling discussed the lessons that Australia, and other countries, can learn from New Zealand’s economic experience over the past few decades

This is a path-breaking examination of the potential implications for national and regional security that stem from the emerging non-traditional security challenge ‘climate change’ – especially for Australia and its Asia-Pacific neighbourhood

In the featured op-ed in the June 6th issue of the Financial Times, Dr Michael Fullilove of the Lowy Institute argues that President Bush has badly overwritten his foreign policy. In the first term, Mr Bush’s sweeping rhetoric exaggerated the defects of his policies. During his second term the

The Turkish Ambassador spoke about the challenges facing Turkey as it attempts to deal with the competing imperatives of a country that sits at Europe’s geographic, cultural and ideological crossroads

In this new Lowy Institute Analysis, Anthony Bubalo, Michael Fullilove and Mark Thirlwell explore the prospect and implications of Iran's using oil as a weapon in its current confrontation with the international community over the nuclear issue

Professor Hans-Henrik Holm addressed the Thursday Lunch at Lowy on the topic of the Danish cartoon media controversy, which occurred when the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons of the prophet Muhammad on September 30 2005.Hans-Henrik Holm is Professor of International Relations at

On 3 May the lawyer and columnist for The Australian newspaper, Janet Albrechtsen, addressed the Wednesday Lunch at the Lowy Institute. Her topic was: 'The illegitimacy of international law: The case against transnationalism

Wednesday Lowy Lunch on Solomon Islands riotsDr Michael Fullilove was the speaker at the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 26 April. His topic was: 'After Honiara: Implications for the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands

In this analytical piece published in the News Review section of the Sydney Morning Herald on 22-23 April 2006, Dr Michael Fullilove describes the implications of the Honiara riots for RAMSI and Australia - as well the lessons we should not draw. Sydney Morning Herald, 22-23 April 2006, p. 21

On 19 April Mark Thirlwell spoke at the NSW branch of the Australian Institute for International Affairs. The subject of his talk was ‘Global shift: how China and India are reshaping the world economy’. A copy of his presentation is available for download

In a Lowy Institute Paper entitled The Paramount Power: China and the Countries of Southeast Asia, Dr Milton Osborne examines how China's relations with Southeast Asia have dramatically changed for the better in the last ten years

In this essay in the April-May edition of The Diplomat, Dr Michael Fullilove argues that Australian foreign policy speeches are duller than they need be. The essay draws on a longer Perspective entitled ‘Speeches and foreign policy

Mark Thirlwell explains how the proponents of globalisation are now baulking at the competition from China and India that their philosophy has inspired. A version of this article appeared in the Australian Financial Review, 10 April 2006, p. 21

In this new Lowy Institute Perspective, Research Fellow Anthony Bubalo examines the results of recent Palestinian and Israeli elections and their implications for Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking

Dr Michael Fullilove has an article in the Autumn edition of Defender, entitled ‘RAMSI and State-building in Solomon Islands’. The article draws on his recent Analysis, 'The Testament of Solomons: RAMSI and International State-building.' Defender, Vol. 23(1), Autumn 2006, pp 31-35

In a Lowy Institute Paper, Dr Simon Chesterman of New York University writes on the relationship between intelligence and collective security

Hugh White, in this opinion piece, writes that the new Defence Minister's different approach will be tested by competing interests. Sydney Morning Herald, 28 March 2006, p. 11

In this opinion piece, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that Australia is being urged to help resist China's growing global influence.The Age, 18 March 2006, p. 11

Hugh White writes in this opinion piece that the US and its allies are trapped in Iraq with little hope of a dignified way out. Sydney Morning Herald, 14 March 2006, p. 11 The Age, 14 March 2006, p. 13

In this opinion piece, an edited version of which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 9 March, Anthony Bubalo welcomes the elevation of the Middle East in the Australian government's strategic priorities, but argues this will require some deeper and innovative thinking on Australia's ties to

In this opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review, Mark Thirlwell writes that Australia has good reasons to seek closer ties with India.Australian Financial Review, 2 March 2006, p. 63