Publications

On 2 March 2009, as part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted a speech by Mr Pascal Lamy, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, on the values of the multilateral trading system

The global threat from nuclear weapons is growing, yet so too is a new international push for nuclear disarmament. On Wednesday 25 February 2009 at a lecture in the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speakers Series, Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman examined what realistic assessments of the developing

In an opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Stephen Grenville argues that Australia should seek deeper reform of the International Monetary Fund. Australian Financial Review, 23 February 2009, p. 20

On Wednesday 18 February 2009, as part of the Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, the Hon Peter Garrett MP, who outlined the Australian Government's forward agenda on international whale conservation.With the

It's now common to hear the claim that the global financial crisis will fundamentally change the world economy. In a new paper in the Lowy Institute's Perspectives series, Mark Thirlwell asks whether the changing facts about the world economy - plummeting growth, soaring risk aversion, collapsing

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 11 February 2009, Fergus Hanson examined the Australian government’s current 'no policy' approach to the probability that suspected war criminals are living in Australia and looked at options for dealing with the problem

In this Policy Brief, Fergus Hanson looks at the Australian government's current approach to suspected war criminals living here

On 4 February, at the first lunch for 2009 in our Wednesday Lunch at Lowy series, three Lowy Institute scholars, Dr Malcolm Cook, Jenny Hayward-Jones and Rory Medcalf, discussed prospects for the Asia Pacific region this year, under the very challenging circumstances of the global financial crisis

In an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald, Malcolm Cook, Program Director East Asia, argues that hopes that China would remain insulated from the global economic crisis and through this help protect the Australian economy from the effects of the global crisis are not being realised. Rather,

The inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States on 20 January was observed intently by billions of people around the world. One of the unusual aspects of Obama's candidacy for president was that he is such a gifted writer and speaker, a fact which has already led to comparisons

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White argues that 'Yes we can' worked wonders as a campaign slogan, but it's time for realism, not idealism. The Australian, 23 January 2009, p. 12

In an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald, Dr Michael Fullilove, Program Director Global Issues and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, analyses Barack Obama's inaugural address.Sydney Morning Herald, 22 January 2009, p. 7

In this op-ed on www.foreignpolicy.com, Dr Michael Fullilove looks ahead to Barack Obama's inaugural address on 20 January and distills three lessons from history concerning the relationship between presidential language and U.S. foreign policy.http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=

In an opinion piece in the Solomon Star News, Jenny Hayward-Jones, Director of The Myer Foundation Melanesia Program at the Lowy Institute, puts forward suggestions for Solomon Islands' political stability and governance from the conference held in Honiara in late September 2008. Solomon Star

In this opinion piece in The Age, International Security Program Director Rory Medcalf argues that China's anti-piracy naval deployment off Somalia opens a window of opportunity for Australia and others to test the waters of cooperation with a rising power. The Age, 5 January 2009, p. 9

In a paper written for an IPA conference on Australia's Investment Future, the Institute's Andrew Shearer and Mark Thirlwell take a look at the politics and economics of Australia’s foreign investment regime. They examine the extent to which the regime is adequate to safeguard the national

As part of its commitment to increase spending on overseas development assistance, the Australian government has announced a substantial re-engagement with Africa

On 15 December 2008, Dr Michael Fullilove published an op-ed in The New York Times. During the campaign, President-elect Barack Obama promised that in the first 100 days of his administration he would 'travel to a major Islamic forum and deliver an address to redefine our struggle.' In his op-ed, Dr

In a new Lowy Institute Analysis Australian journalist David Hardaker examines the growth and impact of the 'new media' - primarily the internet and satellite television - in the Arab world

In an opinion piece in the Financial Times, Dr Michael Fullilove, Global Issues Program Director and a visiting fellow at The Brookings Institution, argues that there are several lessons about the international system that President-Elect Barack Obama could learn from cricket.Financial Times, 10

In a new Lowy Institute Analysis entitled 'Ambition: the emerging foreign policy of the Rudd Government', Lowy Institute Executive Director Allan Gyngell explores what we have learned about the Rudd Government's emerging foreign policy, about the Prime Minister's own contributions to it and what

In this opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review, International Security Program Director Rory Medcalf assesses some of the repercussions of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. He judges that military confrontation between India and Pakistan is unlikely, and that India might instead focus on its

The last twelve months have witnessed a turning point in post-independence Malaysian politics. In elections last March, the Barisan Nasional coalition and its dominant member, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), suffered serious reversals. The prime ministership of Datuk Seri Abdullah

The annual Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World is the highlight of our events calendar. The 2008 lecture was delivered by Mr Ian Macfarlane AC in Sydney on Wednesday 3 December 2008.In this lecture Mr Macfarlane seeks to answer the question of what is different about this financial crisis from