Programs & Projects
Australia's Security and the Rules-Based Order
The 2016 Defence White Paper describes a rules-based global order as a “fundamental strategic interest”.
This project, supported by the Department of Defence’s Strategic Policy Grants Program, aims to lead a national debate on the rules-based order and its implications for Australian security and defence. It will connect the legal, political, and historical debates about the nature of the global order with the practical realities of Australia’s strategic environment. It will address how the order can evolve to meet new technological challenges and modes of warfare, including grey zone operations.
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Experts
Latest publications
News and media
Australia lays down the law in the South China Sea dispute
Australia has entered the renewed diplomatic fray about China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea, clarifying, if not entirely resolving, Canberra’s previously vague legal…
Commentary
Get behind Southeast Asia with clear policy against China bullies
Originally published in The Australian.
Commentary
Regional security depends on making order from chaos
Originally published in The Australian.
Stoking the fire of Asia-Pacific missile proliferation
In the name of keeping the nation safe, Australia is joining the Asia-Pacific’s accelerating missile race. However, not only will it not keep the nation safe, it will stoke an…
Commentary
Australia must enter the grey zone to counter threats of the future
Originally published in The Canberra Times.
Policy Briefs
Emerging from COVID: Policy Responses to the Pandemic
Lowy Institute experts provide policy recommendations for Australia to address issues that are critical to our nation's — and the world's — successful emergence from the pandemic.
Commentary
How to fight China's cyber-warriors
We must persuade Beijing that it should do it as it would be done by in cyber space. Rules are much better than retaliation. Originally published in the Australian Financial…
Podcasts
COVIDcast: Hugh White on Coronavirus and Asia’s power balance
In this episode of COVIDcast, Sam Roggeveen, Lowy Institute’s Director of the International Security Program, sat down with Professor Hugh White to discuss the connection between…
Morrison’s messages to the “sophisticated state-based cyber actor”
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement today that Australia was being targeted by a “sophisticated state-based cyber actor” was curiously measured. On the one hand, the …
Canberra vs Beijing: A reply to Alan Dupont
Australia’s national debate about China has been dramatically transformed over the last few years. China’s rise is arguably the most important thing to happen to…