Publications

2020 vision: that sinking feeling

Dr Malcolm Cook , Alex Duchen , Dr Michael Fullilove , Fergus Hanson , Jenny Hayward-Jones , Rory Medcalf , Alex Oliver (prev. Duchen), Andrew Shearer , Mark Thirlwell , Don Watson

Summary
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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Food security: This land was our land
My previous post described the early signs that the world might be on the brink of another food crisis like the one it suffered in 2007-08....Read more

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The 2010 Lowy Institute Poll

The sixth annual Lowy Institute Poll surveys Australian public opinion on a range of foreign policy issues. New questions this year cover the Rudd Government’s handling of foreign policy issues during its first term in office, whether Australia should develop nuclear weapons, attitudes towards Indonesia and US power, sanctions against Fiji and the morality of Australia’s foreign policy.

The Poll also repeated questions asked in previous years, revealing trends in public opinion on topics such as climate change, Australia’s military involvement in Afghanistan, and attitudes towards the United States and China.

A panel discussion about the poll can be heard here:
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Power and choice: Asian security futures

Recent events in the seas off South Korea and Japan emphasise the fragility of Asia’s security order and the strains the region’s changing power distribution are placing on it. A new major Lowy Institute Asia Security Project report, 'Power and Choice: Asian Security Futures', analyses the likely security futures for Asia and Australia and recommends steps countries should take to ensure growing regional competition does not lead to conflict. This report was made possible by the generous support for the Project by the MacArthur Foundation.

A copy of the report, launched by Dennis Richardson, AO, the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on 1 June, can be downloaded here.Download item (6.5MB)