Commentary

In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes about expectations that a formal defence alliance between Australia and Japan would be formed in the not-too-distant future

Danielle Cave, Research Associate in The Myer Foundation Melanesia Program, writes in the PNG Post Courier about her research findings published in a recent Lowy Institute Analysis, Digital islands: How the Pacific's ICT revolution is transforming the region

In an opinion piece for The Drum, Anthony Bubalo, Program Director West Asia, writes that Gaza's fate lies in a complex web of cooperation between Israel, Egypt and Hamas - and Tehran too. 

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Milton Osborne writes that the construction of a dam on the Mekong River such as the one at Xayaburi in Laos could be disastrous

In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Military Fellow James Brown writes that a frank conversation about Australia's defence capabilities and strategic policy should be had at this week's AUSMIN talks in Perth

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute International Security Program Director Rory Medcalf suggests that the 16 November 2012 AUSMIN talks in Perth are a perfect chance for Australia and the United States to put forward an inclusive vision for security in Indo-Pacific Asia, along

In a piece for ON LINE Opinion, Rory Medcalf, Program Director International Security, writes that Australia will harm its credibility in Asia if it allows the ambitious new Asian Century White Paper to be a substitute for policy action

In an opinion piece in The Christian Science Monitor on President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, Dr Michael Fullilove writes that although commentators draw sharp distinctions between the two men, their foreign policy similarities are more striking than the differences

Research Associate Danielle Cave wrote a piece for Inside Story on how Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs, starved of funds, has spread itself too thinly since the launch of Australia's bid for a seat on the UN Security Council

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Non-resident Fellow Dr Rodger Shanahan writes that uniting the fragile sectarian political system in Lebanon is crucial for its future

Rory Medcalf, Program Director International Security, has published an opinion piece in the Urdu-language newspaper The Daily Milpa, New Delhi, on the significance of the visit to India by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard

In an opinion piece in The Indian Express, Rory Medcalf, convenor of the Australia-India Roundtable and Program Director International Security, writes that the Indian and Australian prime ministers can take satisfaction from the reinvention of the bilateral relationship

Lowy Institute Research Fellow Dr Dave McRae, in an article for the Review section of The Australian Financial Review, argues that in light of the significant efforts Indonesia has made to reduce the threat of terrorism, the time is overdue for the government to bring another form of extremism

Dr Michael Fullilove was one of four experts who recently contributed their thoughts about the role of the United Nations and the future of global governance to a Council on Foreign Relations expert roundup. This roundup is a feature of the Council of Councils initiative, gathering

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Non-resident Fellow Dr Rodger Shanahan writes that there is an opportunity for nascent Arab democracies' leaders to exhibit some real leadership

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

Australia is a wealthy nation with a small population occupying a large continent located a great distance from our historical sources of security and prosperity. As a result, the single foreign policy theme which has united our otherwise diverse postwar prime ministers has been the desire to join (

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

In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Professorial Fellow Warwick McKibbin argues that when markets are distorted by foreign central banks, it might be better to deal directly with the distortion

In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Professorial Fellow Warwick McKibbin warns that the high dollar, the carbon tax and high labour costs are driving rapid adjustment pressures on manufacturing

The territorial disputes in the South China Sea get much less attention than other crisis points, in the Taiwan Straits and the Korean Peninsula, but are arguably more unpredictable and dangerous. It is in the South China Sea that the components of Asia’s changing power dynamics are most

In an opinion piece in Money Management, Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia, looks at what can be expected from China's likely new leaders and weighs up the possibilities of a change in China's economic policies

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