Publications

Presentation by Professor Warwick McKibbin, Professorial Fellow at the Lowy Institute, at the conference Emissions Trading in Australia: Status and Prospects, held at the Sydney Stock Exchange by the Australian Emissions Trading Forum and the CRC for Greenhouse Accounting.The presentation was based

Michael Fullilove writes on Australians' attitudes to their expatriates and the need for policies to harness the Australian diaspora.Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April 2004;The Age, 12 April 2004

Changing utterly? Australia's international policy in an uncertain age: proceedings of a Lowy Institute conference held in November 2003. The proceedings, edited by Professor William Tow, are now available for download

Australia should not wholeheartedly associate itself with Washington's ambitious global strategy, warns Owen Harries

Allen Gyngell writes on the dangers of intelligence officials' becoming too close to the policy process. Sydney Morning Herald, 24 February 2004, p.11

One of the most striking trends in the international economy in recent years has been the rapid rise of the importance of China as a trading nation

Michael Fullilove reviews Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, a biography by Conrad Black. The Australian, 7 February 2004, 6 - NSW Country, p. B10

This Issues Brief suggests that a key theme over the past year has been the management of external imbalances in a world economy that is not only increasingly integrated but which is simultaneously undergoing a sustained geographic shift in the distribution of economic weight towards Asia

Malcolm Cook, Program Director, Asia and the Pacific at the Lowy Institute, writes on elections to be held in East Asia in 2004. Canberra Times, 8 January 2004, p. 17

Malcolm Cook and Michael Fullilove write on the dangerous interplay of foreign policy and party politics in the case of the Taiwan Straits dispute.Sydney Morning Herald, 31 December 2003, p. 9

Some economic models suggest international economic integration may be contributing to political fragmentation

Mark Thirlwell, Program Director, International Economy at the Lowy Institute, writes on the outlook for the global economy in 2004. The Diplomat, Vol. 2 No. 5, Dec-Jan 2004, pp. 25-26

International trade now plays an increasingly important role in the Australian economy

Allan Gyngell, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, writes about the current debates on Australia’s position in the world. Australian Financial Review, 25 November 2003, p.63

There are strong parallels between today’s US-China tensions over trade and US-Japan economic relations in the 1980s

Developments including the rise of vertically specialised trade and the growing internationalisation of production, broader and deeper goods and financial market integration, the extension of international trade to the previously “non-tradeable” services sector, and the spread of international

The post-World War II international trade policy framework is being challenged by a proliferation of bilateral and regional trading arrangements. Australia faces a choice over whether to join this preferential trade bandwagon and risk collateral damage to the multilateral trading system, or to go no

In this paper we update our earlier estimates of the cost of the Kyoto Protocol using the G-Cubed model, taking into account the new sink allowances from recent negotiations as well as allowing for multiple gases and new land clearing estimates.