Issues

  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Rarotonga

    Big enough for all of us: geo-strategic competition in the Pacific Islands

    China's growing engagement in the Pacific Islands has fueled talk of great-power competition in the region.  But viewing China's activities in the region in geo-strategic terms is inappropriate...

  • India Poll 2013

    The India Poll 2013 is one of the most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on the attitudes of Indian citizens towards their future in the world.

    Key issues covered in the poll include:...

  • Stricken container ship Rena

    Saving multilateralism: the G20, the WTO, and world trade

    The multilateral trading system, an important contributor to global peace and prosperity, is in trouble.  In a new Lowy Institute Analysis for the G20 Studies Centre, Mark Thirlwell argues that...

Publications

  • Small weapons of mass destruction: Why Australia should lead the global charge against small arms

    Luke McGreevy is the winner of the Lowy Institute's undergraduate op-ed competition. Luke is an honours student at Monash University. It should come as no surprise that, in the wrong hands, guns can devastate whole communities. The Colorado movie-theatre massacre and the Newtown elementary school...
    19 June 2013
    By
    Guest blogger

  • Development links: Population, TB, Samantha Power, poverty and more

    For the first time this week, a new weekly post compiling for you the latest aid and development links from around the world. For comments and link suggestions, email sdunstan@lowyinstitute.org . The world's population is projected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050 . The developed regions will remain...
    19 June 2013
    By
    Stephanie Dunstan

  • Reader riposte: Costs of EU-US free trade deal

    Reader Peter Frank recommends this Spiegel analysis of the proposed US-EU free trade agreement, which contains estimates that such a deal would cost Australia 52,000 jobs and result in 7.4% decline in Australia's per capita income. Peter writes: Interesting analysis of impacts of EU/US free trade...
    19 June 2013
    By
    Guest blogger

  • Defence in depth: Better or worse?

    Dougal Robinson is a Lowy Institute defence intern. Watch video As the Australian Defence Force approaches the end of a period of high operational tempo, this third Defence in Depth video (you can watch the whole series and read commentary about it on this debate thread ) asks experts whether the...
    19 June 2013
    By
    Guest blogger

  • Can G20 leaders save the multilateral trading system? Will they bother?

    This week saw the US and EU agree to launch talks on what has been described as potentially the 'biggest bilateral trade deal in history .' The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the latest in a series of so-called 'mega-regional' trade arrangements. Australia is a...
    19 June 2013
    By
    Mark Thirlwell

  • Interview: Kishore Mahbubani's great convergence, part II

    Below, part 2 of my interview with Kishore Mahbubani, one of Asia's most prominent world-politics commentators and author of The Great Convergence . Part 1 here . SR: You're very critical in The Great Convergence of international institutions such as the UN, WTO and World Bank, which you point out...
    19 June 2013
    By
    Sam Roggeveen

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