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Dr Malcolm Cook
Program Director - East Asia


Malcolm Cook, Program Director, East Asia at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, completed a PhD in International Relations from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. He also holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the International University of Japan and an honours degree from McGill University in Canada, his country of birth.

Before moving to Australia in 2000, Malcolm lived and worked in the Philippines, South Korea and Japan and spent much time in Singapore and Malaysia. Before joining the Institute in November 2003, Malcolm ran his own consulting practice on East Asian political and economic policy reform and risk analysis.

Research interests:

Political economy of North East and South East Asia; East Asian regionalism; Japanese foreign policy and great power relations in East Asia.

Key recent publications:

Mindanao: A Gamble Worth Taking (with Dr Kit Collier). Lowy Institute Paper 17.

Koizumi’s Legacy: Japan’s News Politics. Lowy Institute Analysis, August 2006

Balancing Act: Taiwan's Cross-Strait Challenge (with Craig Meer). Lowy Institute Paper 06.



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Research interests
Political economy of North East and South East Asia; East Asian regionalism; Japanese foreign policy and great power relations in East Asia.
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Research staff presentations -- 3 Feb 2010

2020 vision: that sinking feeling -- 16 Jan 2010

Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Research staff presentations -- 2 Dec 2009

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