Defence & Security

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 an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald, Lowy Institute Military Associate James Brown argues that it's time we started caring more about soldiers who are alive, than those long dead.Sydney Morning Herald, 11 November 2011, p. 13.Also published in The Age, 11 November 2011, as The Diggers

Rory Medcalf, the Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program, recently gave public lectures in Washington DC and in Melbourne on China-India relations and the risks of strategic competition between Asia’s rising giants. His Washington talk, at the Carnegie Endowment for

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

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 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

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

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

China’s position vis-à-vis Russia has changed from one of junior partner during the Soviet era to one of economic dominance today. At the same time, arms sales and energy cooperation, the two fundamental pillars of the China-Russia relationship, show signs of crumbling. The SIPRI policy paper,

In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White argues that Australia's $8 billion commitment to the construction of three Air Warfare Destroyers is a waste of money — too expensive and out of line with our strategic interests.The Age, 27 September 2011, p. 11

In an article in YaleGlobal Online Magazine, Lowy Institute Research Associate Ashley Townshend argues that there are few reasons to fear China’s strategic weight in the Indian Ocean.YaleGlobal Online Magazine, 16 September 2011; Versions of this opinion piece were also published by South China

Canberra is seeking an Indo-Pacific strategy for an era of Chinese, Indian and sustained American power. The contours of such a strategy were assessed by Rory Medcalf, in his contribution to the 2011-12 edition of the authoritative Strategic Asia series of books. His chapter provides the first

In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that in the context of cyber war,Australia should let enemies know it is ready for a virtual battle.The Age, 13 September 2011, p. 13

In an opinion piece in The New Zealand Herald, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley writes that the Pacific Islands Forum is at a crossroads as tiger economies muscle up.This is a summary of Dr Wesley's keynote address to the Institute's conference, "'The Pacific Islands and the world:

In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that the United States will have to rethink its western Pacific naval policy.The Age, 30 August 2011, p. 13

In his regular column in the August 2011 edition of the journal American Review, the Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf examines the value of twitter for foreign policy think tanks and journalists.The article can be accessed here:http://americanreviewmag.com/opinions/Advance-column-August-2011

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Non-resident Fellow Dr Rodger Shanahan writes that a small regional military base in the United Arab Emirates makes sense.The Australian, 18 August 2011, p. 8

This report, commissioned by Qantas, examines the major strategic, economic and social trends that will shape Asia over the next decades. It describes three major trends: a profound realignment in the relationship between societies’ size and wealth; a deepening integration between Asia’s sub-

In the Food for Thought event in Canberra on 8 August 2011, National Security Fellow Ellie Fogarty launched a report that analyses what Australia’s national interests in Antarctica are, and considers how they might best be protected and advanced in the future. She was joined in a panel discussion

Largely as a consequence of military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Australia has developed strong defence ties with key GCC countries. But with these deployments coming to an end, the future is in question

In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that Australia can play a role smoothing the waters between the United States and China in the South China Sea.The Age, 2 August 2011, p. 11

In an Economic Briefing in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Stephen Grenville writes that it is time the risk assessors, the credit ratings agencies, were assessed themselves.Australian Financial Review, 1 August 2011, p. 23

In this article for China-US Focus, the Lowy Institute's Rory Medcalf assesses the outcomes from the July 2011 visit to China by US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen. He concludes that the confidence-building measures from that visit fall short of what is needed to prevent