Publications

On 7 December 2011, Caz Tebbutt, Managing Director of Tebbutt Research, which conducted the Lowy Institute's poll in Fiji, delivered the Lowy Lecture on opinion polling in Fiji

In an article in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Professorial Fellow Warwick McKibbin writes on the similarities between Australia's carbon pricing model and the common currency arrangement in Europe.Australian Financial Review, Review, 2 December 2011, pp. 1,9

In this lecture under the Lowy Institute's Canberra Food for Thought series, leading nuclear expert Professor Scott Sagan of Stanford University weighs up the achievements and the challenges ahead for the Obama nuclear agenda. This event, moderated by the Lowy Institute's Rory Medcalf, was supported

In December 2011, the Australian Labor Party changed its policy platform to allow uranium exports to India, following an intense debate. The Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf had analysed this issue closely over the preceding years, and on the eve of the Labor conference published this paper,

As part of a major new project exploring how three key states in the Middle East and Central Asia - Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan and Iran - approach their relations with China, the West Asia program is releasing a short video previewing some of the project's research issues and themes. The nine-minute

The latest paper in the Lowy Institute’s Afghan Voices series provides two very different perspectives on Australia’s military and development efforts in Uruzgan. The first comes in the form of excerpts from an uncompleted draft on the subject by Omaid Khpalwak, an Afghan journalist tragically

In this article for Foreign Policy.com, the Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf outlines the Asia-Pacific strategic vision behind Obama’s historic 2011 speech in Canberra – but also suggests that more could have been done to prepare most Australians for such a declaration.The article can

In an article for The Diplomat, Raoul Heinrichs, Editor of the Lowy Institute's Strategic Snapshots series, evaluates the practical and symbolic strategic logic of the decision to enhance US-Australia defence cooperation in Australia's North West.The Diplomat, 17 November 2011

In this interview for Brazil Talk, Deputy Director Martine Letts talks about her experience in Latin American affairs, Australia’s evolving engagement with Brazil and the Lowy Institute’s challenges to broaden its support as Australia’s pre-eminent international policy think tank. Brazil Talk

The 2011 Lowy Lecture was delivered by Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, who visited Australia as a guest of the Institute. In his lecture, 'Asia's Rise, the West's Fall?' delivered on 17 November, Barber examined the implications of Asia's rise for the world and offered some

In this opinion piece in The Australian, the Lowy Institute's Rory Medcalf argues that Australia has an opportunity to work closely with the United States as it makes a three-fold strategic pivot: from the Middle East to Asia, from an Asia-Pacific to an Indo-Pacific concept, and towards more

In his latest column in the journal American Review, the Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf argues that diplomats, spies, journalists and analysts who shun social media are at risk of becoming the blacksmiths of the information age: quaint, heavy-handed and unviable. His column can be accessed here

At the 2011 President’s Forum of the Australian Institute for International Affairs, the Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf spoke of the promise and prospects for Australia-India relations for the next generation. A video of his presentation can be accessed here

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Andrew Carr, Deputy Editor of the Lowy Institute's blog, The Interpreter, www.lowyinterpreter.org, writes that Australians continue to baulk at learning Asian languages.The Australian, 9 November 2011, p. 29

In this major new report launched on 4 November, scholars from the Lowy Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Observer Research Foundation identify common challenges and opportunities facing Australia, India and the United States in the Indo-Pacific region. The report notes that Australia-India

At the Lowy Lecture on 9 November 2011, Brigadier Roger Noble outlined long-term factors which should guide the way the ADF structures Special Operations Command. Brigadier Roger Noble is the author of The Future Special Operations Concept 2030 which argues that Australia's Special Forces need to be

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Wesley argues that our education systems are not adequately preparing us for dealing with the rise of Asia.The Australian, 26 October 2011, p. 29

In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that Australia's big mining companies need to take a stand on geopolitical hazards.The Age, 25 October 2011, p. 11

In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that with action on climate change, Australia is more likely to make a difference by being a broker, not a leader.The Age, 11 October 2011, p. 13

Indonesia's strong economic growth and emerging leadership in the region are creating new opportunities for Australia to deepen its political, economic and strategic ties with our close and important neighbour. With an economy expected to double in size over the next fifteen years, Indonesia is now

On 17 and 18 October 2011, the Lowy Institute hosted the inaugural India-China Workshop, an informal dialogue bringing together Australian, Indian, Chinese and Singaporean experts. At the public concluding event, a new Lowy Institute Analysis, 'The Dangers of Denial', on the nuclear dimension of

After postings in Washington and South Asia, Nick Bryant came to Australia determined to avoid all the stereotypes and clichés that still tend to inform the world's view of the 'land down under.' He found an increasingly consequential country – diplomatically, commercially, economically and

Stephen Grenville describes the possible benefits of introducing a Tobin tax - a small tax on financial transactions - in slowing excessive international capital flows, and its place in addressing the eurozone crisis

In an opinion piece in the South China Morning Post, Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia, expects little of the latest push for a nuclear-free North Korea