Regional relationships

Australia’s choices in the Indo-Pacific Asian century will not simply involve China and the United States. India, too, needs to be in the picture. In this lecture delivered at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi in mid-2012, the Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf outlines the impact of a

Lowy Insitute West Asia Program Director Anthony Bubalo gave an address to the Australia-Arab Chamber of Commerce and Industry, during the 2012 Business Forum and Expo, in Sydney on 5th June 2012. In his address Anthony examines the history of the Australia - Middle East relationship, the challenges

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

On 19 October 2011, in the Lowy Lecture Series, Professor Nicholas Tarling reviewed some of the legacies, actual and perceived, of the pre-colonial and colonial periods to the post-colonial period in Southeast Asia, and their relationship to the 'ASEAN Way'.Nicholas Tarling is a Fellow of the New

Is a dangerous nuclear competition emerging between the two most populous nations? In this Lowy Institute Analysis, Fiona Cunningham and Rory Medcalf warn of nuclear dangers as China and India rise. The authors call for a strategic stability dialogue embedded in mutual respect, to ensure possible

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

In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that as China rapidly ascends in influence, its superpower rival seems unable to face up to its failings.The Age, 16 August 2011, p. 15

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

On 9 March 2011, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley gave a speech at the East-West Center in Washington DC on the geostrategic importance of Southeast Asia, or the 'Indo-Pacific Peninsula'.The speech, 'SEA-blindness: why Southeast Asia matters', can be read here

In this panel discussion on China Radio International's Beyond Beijing program, Research Associate and Asia Security Project Coordinator Raoul Heinrichs explores the future prospects for the Six Party Talks, and for security on the Korean Peninsula

India needs to stay cool in the face of diplomatic and security provocations by China, argues International Security Program Director Rory Medcalf in this opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal. Through development, deterrence and diplomacy New Delhi can be prepared for looming rivalry.The Wall

On 15 August, Hankook llbo, a leading newspaper in South Korea, published an opinion piece by Malcolm Cook analysing the recent territorial dispute between South Korea and Japan over the islets the Koreans call Dokdo. The Korean version of the opinion piece can be downloaded here together with the

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 13th February, Dr Malcolm Cook discussed the results of recent elections in South Korea and Taiwan. Malcolm analysed whether South Korean and Taiwan voters are trying to return to the past and what this might mean for Northeast Asia's two most dangerous flashpoints

In this opinion piece in The Age, Rory Medcalf, Program Director for International Security, writes on the wider regional significance of the new Japan-Australia Joint Declaration on Security Co-operation. He argues that there are ways in which closer Australia-Japan security dialogue might end up

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 17 May 2006, the Institute launched the new Lowy Institute Paper, The Paramount Power: China and the Countries of Southeast Asia, by Dr Milton Osborne

In this opinion piece, Malcolm Cook, the Institute’s program director for Asia and the Pacific, looks at how regional Australia is the greatest beneficiary of closer commercial ties with China. China plays larger in Perth, Brisbane and Darwin than in the Sydney-Canberra Melbourne triangle.The

In this opinion piece, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that Australia is being urged to help resist China's growing global influence.The Age, 18 March 2006, p. 11

Professor Ross Garnaut presented a paper at the International Conference on World Economy, Colima, Mexico, 25 November 2004

Michael Fullilove reviews The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image, by James Curran Australian Book Review, June/July 2004, pp.16-17