2010 Australia-UAE Dialogue
From 4 to 5 February 2010 the Lowy Institute for International Policy convened the second Australia-UAE Dialogue.
Photo: His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Hon Stephen Smith, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, speaking at an informal breakfast at the 2010 Australia-UAE Dialogue.
The bilateral relationship between Australia and the United Arab Emirates has grown dramatically in recent years. Today there are over 90 flights a weeks between the two countries, defence cooperation has expanded significantly and the UAE has become Australia’s 13th largest export market worldwide.
Against this background the Australia-UAE Dialogue brought together eminent figures from business and government in both countries to discuss options for enhancing bilateral ties and cooperation.
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Will America defend its Asian allies? In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, Andrew Shearer, Director of Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute, analyses the Pentagon's recently-released 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review and comments on some of the implications for...
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| The year ahead |
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Research staff presentations On 3 February, at the first Wednesday Lunch at Lowy for 2010, three Lowy Institute scholars discussed where the world and our region are headed after a tumultuous year in 2009. Will things be calmer or more uncertain?
Mark Thirlwell, Program Director...
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Capital flows, the carry trade and 'sand in the wheels' The 'carry trade', in which capital shifts from countries with low interest rates to countries with significantly higher rates, has become an important element of international capital flows over the past decade. In a new Lowy Institute Policy Brief, Dr...
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| New Lowy Institute Paper |
The Mekong: river under threat In this new Lowy Institute Paper, our Visiting Fellow, Dr Milton Osborne, evaluates the potentially huge social and environmental risks for the Mekong River and the millions who depend on it for their livelihood of planned dam projects in Laos and Cambodia....
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Welcome to 2010
 At at reception at the Westin Hotel on Thursday 28 January 2010, Dr Michael Wesley, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, spoke of what we should expect in the decade ahead.
His speech can be heard here:
Welcome to 2010 - MP3 (8MB)
A video of the presentation can be watched by clicking on the photo.
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China and the global environment: learning from the past, anticipating the future
China's environmental problems are now at the forefront of domestic and international concern. In this new Lowy Institute Paper, 'China and the global environment: learning from the past, anticipating the future', Dr Katherine Morton examines the potential for China's system of environmental governance to respond effectively to the crises, both within and beyond territorial boundaries.
To order a hard copy of this publication click here.
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Al-Qa'ida, tribes and instability in Yemen
In a new Lowy Institute Analysis, Sarah Phillips and
Rodger Shanahan discuss the re-emergence of a significant al-Qa’ida presence in Yemen. The authors focus on al-Qa’ida’s efforts to build relations with local Yemeni tribes, something that will be central to the movement’s prospects of cementing a long-term presence in the country. The authors point to the importance of undermining any potential nexus between al-Qaida and the tribes as critical to Western counter-terrorism efforts in the region.
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2020 vision: that sinking feeling
In an article in The Australian, ten Lowy Institute research staff describe ten aspects of our world that may vanish by 2020.
The Australian, 16 January 2010, p. 2
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Terror in capital brings fight to elite
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Non-resident Fellow Whit Mason writes that the latest Taliban attacks have blown up the illusion that Kabul is a safe haven.
The Australian, 20 January 2010, p. 8
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Don't sacrifice relations with Japan over whaling
Andrew Shearer warns that Tokyo is not innocent, but that our response is provocative, pointless and downright dangerous.
The Spectator, 23 January 2010, p. ix
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Mistakes, but signs of improvement: Obama gets a B-plus for first year
In an essay in The Sydney Morning Herald, Dr Michael Fullilove, Program Director Global Issues, evaluates President Barack Obama's first year in office.
Sydney Morning Herald, 16 January 2010, p. 11
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Threat to cricketers may heal relations
In an opinion piece in The Age, Rory Medcalf, Program Director International Security, coordinator of the Australia-India Roundtable, suggests that the threats by India’s Shiv Sena extremists to ban Australian cricketers will alienate mainstream Indians. He argues that the crisis over the welfare of Indian students in Australia has reached a turning-point: the Shiv Sena threats, plus a reconciliation concert by Bollywood composer A R Rahman, have the potential to be a circuit-breaker, opening the way for both countries to look for a constructive solution.
The Age, 16 January 2010, p. 7
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Mekong under threat
Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Milton Osborne writes that the Mekong, Southeast Asia's longest river, has been transformed in the past three decades and now the food security of the Lower Mekong Basin hangs in the balance. The article is available here in English and Chinese.
Chinadialogue, 15 January 2010: http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/3461
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An 'EU-style' Asian Community? A few naïve perceptions
In a lecture co-sponsored by the Lowy Institute and the University of Sydney, delivered at the University of Sydney on 2 December 2009, David Camroux, Senior Researcher at Sciences Po, the Centre for International Studies and Research, Paris, examines the possibility of an EU model for an Asian Community.
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Media raising a scare will do more harm than good
In this opinion piece in India’s Mail Today newspaper, Lowy Institute coordinator of the Australia-India Roundtable Rory Medcalf argues that sensationalist media reporting putting a racial angle on the crimes against Indian students in Australia is not in the interests of bilateral relations or of India itself.
Mail Today, 9 January 2010, p. 15
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Obama's surge
In a new Lowy Institute Policy Brief, West Asia Program Director Anthony Bubalo considers the implications of President Obama’s decision to send additional US troops to Afghanistan. 'Obama’s surge: The United States, Australia and the second war for Afghanistan' discusses how shifts in US troops numbers and strategy, combined with the planned withdrawal of Dutch forces from Oruzgan, where the bulk of the Australian military force operates, raise a number of issues for Australian policy. It recommends an independent review of the factors that have contributed to improvements in Oruzgan’s security to date, greater flexibility in the way Australia deploys its military trainers and more effort to improve the effectivess of its civilian and diplomatic contributions to the war.
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Comprehending Copenhagen: a guide to the international climate change negotiations
From 7-18 December, the world’s attention will be focused on Copenhagen, where representatives of 192 nations will gather in an attempt to strike a new international agreement to respond to the urgent challenge of global climate change. In this Lowy Institute Analysis, Dr Greg Picker and Fergus Green aim to demystify the negotiations and deepen public understanding of this important process. From the expansion of international carbon markets to proposals for curbing tropical deforestation, the paper elucidates the key issues to be negotiated in Copenhagen and outlines the positions of the various countries and groups to each issue. The paper also explains the Conference’s processes, weighs the likely outcomes and considers its potential implications for Australia and beyond.
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The vital place of nuclear weapons in 21st century US national security strategy
Kevin Rudd launched the report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament in Tokyo on 15 December. In this publication Franklin C. Miller, a former senior US government official with extensive involvement in nuclear policy making over five Administrations, makes the case for the United States maintaining a strong, safe and credible nuclear deterrent in the 21st century.
The Lowy Institute is pleased to issue this Perspective as one of a series of views on nuclear policy.
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Eliminating nuclear threats
 Following the launch by Prime Ministers Rudd and Hatoyama of the report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) 'Eliminating Nuclear Threats: A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers', the Lowy Institute convened an expert panel to assess the report and its impact on global disarmament and non-proliferation.
The moderator was Dr Michael Wesley and the panellists were Martine Letts, Rory Medcalf, and Dr Rod Lyon.
The members of the expert panel can be heard here:
Eliminating nuclear threats - MP3 (22MB)
A video of the presentation can be watched by clicking the photo above.
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Victim of success: China’s growth and environmental consequences
In the third publication from the Griffith-Lowy Institute Project on the Future of China, Roger Irvine analyses the critical relationship between China’s rapid economic development and climate change and the policy steps Beijing has taken to address these critical issues. As the world focuses on climate change talks in Copenhagen, it is crucial that we have a better understanding of China’s position on global responses to climate change and their roots in China’s own development.
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The Mekong: Milton Osborne presentation
The Mekong River basins are one of the most important and dynamic areas in the world for the battle between economic development’s demands for energy and environmental and social sustainability. As world attention shifts to the pending global climate change negotiations in far-off Copenhagen, the ongoing damming of the Mekong River and plans by the riparian states to build new dams threaten the livelihoods of millions or people in Southeast Asia who rely on the river. Milton Osborne’s latest publication for the Lowy Institute on the Mekong River focuses on these plans by the Lao PDR and Cambodia to build dams on the Mekong and evaluates their potential social and environmental ramifications especially for Cambodia’s Great Lake and for the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
His presentation at the launch can be heard here:
The Mekong: river under threat - MP3 (19MB)
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Research staff presentations
On 2 December, Deputy Director Martine Letts and members of our Lowy Institute research team wound up this year’s Wednesday Lunch at Lowy Club series with a review of 2009, and what it means for Australia. Director of Studies Andrew Shearer, Program Director for East Asia, Dr Malcolm Cook and blog editor Sam Roggeveen gave their perspectives on the year, what surprised them and what did not.
Their presentations can be heard here:
2009 in review - MP3 (22MB)
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Problems to partnership: a plan for Australia-India strategic ties
In this Lowy Institute Policy Brief, Rory Medcalf, Program Director International Security, argues that Australia and India must not squander the chance to build a strategic partnership. Recent bilateral difficulties, such as over student welfare, have at least focused high-level attention on the relationship. A security declaration would be a positive step, but would need to be more than rhetoric, and include practical ideas for defence, intelligence and diplomatic cooperation to meet common challenges. Meanwhile the uranium export question has not gone away.
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