Terrorism

In response to more widespread Somali piracy attacks and soaring crew ransoms, shipping companies are turning to private military security companies to provide both armed guards and armed patrol boats to fight pirates in the Indian Ocean. Military Fellow James Brown discussed research findings from

In a Sydney Morning Herald opinion piece, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes on the real challenges to the United States' global role.Sydney Morning Herald, 10 September 2011

Australia has experienced a turbulent ten years of enacting new anti-terror laws as a response to the UN Security Council and attacks overseas. These laws are of unprecedented reach, and provide powers and sanctions that were unthinkable prior to September 11. A decade on, George Williams AO, one of

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

Executive Director Michael Wesley presented a speech at the Port and Maritime Terrorism Conference in Melbourne on 14 September 2009 on the enduring threat of globalist terrorism. The speech is available here

The Lowy Institute for International Policy was pleased to host as a part of its Distinguished Speakers Series the renowned French scholar of the Islamic and Arab worlds, Professor Gilles Kepel. Professor Kepel spoke on the future of political Islam, examining the trajectory of both al-Qaeda’s

In an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sam Roggeveen, editor of the Lowy Institute blog, The Interpreter, argues that the government hasn't really embraced 'resilience' in its new counter-terrorism strategy. Sydney Morning Herald, 24 February 2010, p. 11

At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 16 September, Australia’s Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism, William Paterson PSM, provided an overview of the terrorist threat in Southeast Asia against the background of terrorism trends worldwide

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 27 August 2008, rising terrorism specialist Dr Adam Dolnik looked at the successes and failures of the field of terrorism studies, and offered some explanations about why people become terrorists

In a new Lowy Institute Perspectives, Waleed Aly explores the connection between international policy and domestic radicalisation.A presentation to the Lowy Institute by Waleed Aly on this topic is also available

A substantial number of anti-terrorism laws have been adopted in Australia and overseas since 9/11. While such laws have been seldom used in Australia, their passage and occasional use have provoked extraordinary political and legal controversy, as illustrated by the recent case of Dr Mohammed

In this Lowy Institute Policy Brief, William Maley and Daoud Yaqub explore the implications of the looming Taliban Spring offensive on the international reconstruction and security effort in Afghanistan

A Lowy Institute Paper by Dr Malcolm Cook and Dr Kit Collier analyses the prospects for peace in Mindanao and the threats facing the peace process

On 23 October, as part of our Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute for International Policy hosted a panel discussion with three of America's leading experts on terrorism, Marc Sageman, Steve Coll and Daniel Benjamin. They discussed future trends in global terrorism, providing unique

In an address to the Lowy Institute on 7 June in the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy series, Dr Simon Haines showed how great works of literature can throw light on contemporary problems.He used the example of Milton’s portrayal of Satan in Paradise Lost to examine an extremist, terrorist pathology of an

The multiple arrests this week are not a cause for widespread panic, writes Hugh White. Sydney Morning Herald, 10 November 2005, p. 11  

Leaders talk about terrorism in a heroic way because that's what the public wants, writes Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White. The Age, 1 September 2005, p. 15

September 11 2001 and the Bali Bombing in November 2002 evoked images of a militant Islamist wave sweeping the globe from the Middle East, radicalising once peaceful Muslim communities around the world