In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Dr Michael Fullilove, Program Director Global Issues, argues that the opposition immigration spokesman should be mindful to leave party politics at home.Published in revised form in The Australian Financial Review, 23 June 2011, p. 71
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Non-resident Senior Fellow Professor Alan Dupont writes that signals we send to Beijing are confusing.The Australian, 22 June 2011, p. 8
In China today, a cacophony of voices urges decision-makers to pursue a variety of foreign policies. As China’s society diversifies and as China’s interdependence with the world grows, decision-making processes in China have become more complex. At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch Club on 15 June,
In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Non-resident Fellow Dr Rodger Shanahan argues that we must stay the course in Afghanistan as a withdrawal now would harm our interests.The Age, 14 June 2011, p. 11
In a syndicated opinion piece for The Age, Raoul Heinrichs, editor of the Lowy Institute's Strategic Snapshot series, argues that it's time for Australia to withdraw from Afghanistan.The Age, 8 June 2011, p. 17
In an opinion piece in The Drum, Lowy Institute Non-resident Fellow Rodger Shanahan writes on the potential for the flowering of democracy in Yemen.The Drum, 6 June 2011
In an opinion piece in The Canberra Times, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Fergus Hanson argues that the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade must capitalise on the benefits of social media.Canberra Times, 3 June 2011, p. 17
In his latest Advance Column in the US Studies Centre journal American Review, Lowy Institute International Security Program Director Rory Medcalf reviews five important new books on Asian security, ranging across Sino-Japanese relations, China's naval ambitions and the challenges facing Indian
In an Economic Briefing in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Stephen Grenville writes that quantitative easing has been a success.Australian Financial Review, 30 May 2011, p. 23
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Bronwyn Lo, an intern at the Lowy Institute, addresses the European Union's angle in the apprehension of alleged Serbian war criminial Ratko Mladic.The Australian, 31 May 2011, p. 8
In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Professorial Fellow Warwick McKibbin argues that the real debate on climate change is at the global level.Australian Financial Review, 28 May 2011, p. 61
In an opinion piece in The Drum, Dr Michael Fullilove, Program Director Global Issues, argues that critics of the foreign minister's visiting foreign countries ought to think big.This article was also published in The Interpreter.The Drum, 25 May 2011
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Research Associate Ashley Townshend writes that Beijing's strategic designs in the Indian Ocean are exaggerated.The Australian, 27 May 2011, p. 9
In an article for ISN Insights, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Fergus Hanson writes on how the role of opinion polling in the international realm often escapes notice despite its utility.ISN Insights, 24 May 2011
In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Malcolm Cook and Fergus Hanson argue that Australia's pursuit of Japan over whaling may do more harm than good.Australian Financial Review, 23 May 2011, p. 55
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Annmaree O'Keeffe takes a critical look at the winners and losers in last week’s increased foreign aid budget. While supporting the government’s commitment to increase the aid budget, she asks where is the strategy to guide
How do China's leaders and political elites view the world? What kind of an international role would they like China to assume? At our Food for Thought on Friday 29 April, the new Director of the Lowy Institute's East Asia Program, Linda Jakobson, discussed these issues
Lowy Institute Non-resident Fellow Rodger Shanahan writes on the lessons being drawn from the political unrest in the Arab world.The Drum - Opinion, 16 May 2011
In an opinion piece in today's Australian newspaper, Jenny Hayward-Jones argues for a new approach to bring about democracy in Fiji.The Australian, 10 May 2011, p. 8
Winner of the John Button 2011 Prize for Best Writing in Public Policy, the book proposes that Asia is changing more rapidly than we realise. The near-simultaneous development of its two billion-plus person societies, and the reaction of other countries to this, is unleashing new patterns of
In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Non-resident Fellow Rodger Shanahan writes that the death of Osama bin Laden is the end of one chapter of the battle against al-Qaeda.The Age, 4 May 2011, p. 19
In this op-ed in The Australian, the director of the Lowy Institute’s international security program, Rory Medcalf, argues that the discovery and death of Bin Laden on the doorstep on Pakistan’s military academy raises fundamental questions about Islamabad as an ally against terrorism. It is
In this opinion piece from The Times of India, Indian columnist Ashok Malik and Lowy Institute program director Rory Medcalf argue that the Indian Government needs to coordinate its diplomacy with the expansion of its business interests around the globe. A key step will be to merge the external
In an Economic Briefing in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Stephen Grenville writes that taxpayers should not have to rescue bank operations that have little social value.Australian Financial Review, 2 May 2011, p. 23
Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Wesley delivered a speech entitled 'The Meaning of China' at the New Zealand Principals Forum in Wellington, New Zealand, on 8th April 2011.The speech is available for download here
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Director of Studies Andrew Shearer writes that Prime Minister Julia Gillard should count her northeast Asia tour a modest success: there were no big breakthroughs but neither were there significant stumbles.The Australian, 28 April 2011, p. 12
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia, writes that Prime Minister Julia Gillard has received plenty of advice from different sectors of Australian society regarding what she should discuss with China's leaders during her visit to Beijing. The Australian,
In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that, after wowing the US, the Prime Minister faces her toughest test: to woo Beijing.The Age, 20 April 2011, p. 19
In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal Asia, Lowy Institute Director of Studies Andrew Shearer writes that Prime Minister Gillard's Northeast Asia tour is also an opportunity to consider what Australia and other countries in the region should not do.Wall Street Journal Asia, 25 April 2011, p
In this opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald, the director of the Lowy Institute’s international security program, Rory Medcalf, analyses the diplomatic minefields that Prime Minister Julia Gillard will need to navigate on her visit to Japan, South Korea and China. Sydney Morning Herald, 23
Anthony Bubalo, Program Director West Asia, answers the question 'Is it time to talk to the Taliban?' in The Sydney Morning Herald's Question Time column on 16 April 2011.Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April 2011, p. 13
In an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald, Lowy Institute Military Associate James Brown argues that communication is non-existent in a no-comment culture.Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April 2011, p. 4
In this opinion piece for the Canberra Times, Raoul Heinrichs, Editor of the Lowy Institute's Strategic Snapshot series, argues that US primacy, an order built on the preponderant power of the US and designed to entrench US dominance, has instead facilitated the rise of a powerful and dissatisfied
Fergus Hanson and Mary Fifita write in The Drum on the debt aspect of China's aid program in the Pacific region. They are the authors of a new Lowy Institute Policy Brief, 'China in the Pacific: the new banker in town'.
The Drum, 6 April 2011
Lowy Institute Non-resident fellow Dr Rodger Shanahan writes in The Drum on the concept of humanitarian intervention in Arab states in the context of the imposition of the no-fly zone over Libya.The Drum, 4 April 2011
Almost overnight, the world has become wired. A huge proportion of the globe’s population now have access to a mobile phone and a rapidly increasing proportion of them are smart phones. As the Arab Spring demonstrated, this makes for rapid and unpredictable change.
For public diplomacy
In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Stephen Grenville examines the state of the global economy.Australian Financial Review, 1 April 2011, pp 24-25
Lowy Institute Research Fellow Fergus Hanson writes for ISN Insights that Twitter may be just another way of sharing inane chatter, but if you have written the service off, think again. Social media has emerged as a powerful new tool in international relations, and it deserves closer attention.ISN
In an Economic Briefing in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Stephen Grenville restates some simple basics of the carbon debate as a reminder of the implications of the various positions taken on the subject.Australian Financial Review, 28 March 2011, p. 23
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Jenny Hayward-Jones, Program Director of The Myer Foundation Melanesia program, writes that neighbourhood links with Pacific Island governments must be maintained.The Australian, 22 March 2011, p. 8
In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that if an exclusion zone over Libya fails, as is probable, we will be drawn in deeper.The Age, 17 March 2011, p. 17
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Ashley Townshend, Program Associate for International Security, argues that without a clear rationale, intervention in Libya risks repeating past mistakes.The Australian, 19 March 2011, p. 20
In an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White argues that the biggest mistake in alliance management is to confuse the gush with the substance.Sydney Morning Herald, 11 March 2011, p. 13
In this opinion piece in The Canberra Times, Raoul Heinrichs argues that, with Australia's alliance objectives achieved, with no hope of broader success and with other countries looking for a face-saving way out, it's time for Julia Gillard to begin negotiating the withdrawal of Australian forces
At a lecture at the Lowy Institute on 10 March, World Bank Senior Economist Apurva Sanghi discussed a thought-provoking report by the World Bank and the United Nations. 'Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention' will change the way we look at disaster prevention