The Hong Kong protests are an expression of years of pent-up anger
Originally published in The Telegraph
By Ben Bland
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Hong Kong’s Moment of Reckoning
China’s encroachment on the former colony’s autonomy threatens to undermine the foundations of its economic success.
Originally published in Bloomberg Opinion
By Ben Bland
James Marape gets clear air to establish new PNG administration
Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald
By Shane McLeod
New PNG prime minister, same problems
Touting a new narrative of the Pacific family, Scott Morrison is profoundly changing where the Pacific fits into Australian foreign policy.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
How Power Adapts to a Changed World
At the 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos, the Lowy Institute’s Hervé Lemahieu used the Asia Power Index to chart what might happen to the distribution of power as we move from an open and consensual world order to one that is defined more by competition and zero-sum politics
Conservatives overseas will look at the ScoMo lesson
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
Is Australia Next?
Amid the sound and fury of US President Donald Trump, European populists, and Brexiteers, it is tempting to think that Australia has been spared from the political turmoil sweeping Western democracies. But if one focuses not on the rise of populism but on the decline of the mainstream, Australia no
Jacinda Ardern's Paris pitch a sign of tech giants' power
Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald
By Kelsey Munro
Hong Kong is Set for a U.S.-China Showdown
A controversial extradition bill has exposed the region’s autonomy as a fiction.
Originally published in Foreign Policy
By Ben Bland
Jokowi - business as usual will not be enough
Originally published in Nikkei Asian Review
We must find a new Asia focus as world order changes
Originally published in The Australian
Countering Hanson's legacy in Asia
For a country which has squandered its soft power over the last decade, Australia needs to grab foreign policy advantages where it finds them.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
Why US-China talks should focus on technology as the greater threat, instead of trade
Originally published in South China Morning Post
By Roland Rajah
New Caledonia’s independence referendum: Local and regional implications
As 30 years of peace agreements come to an end, stability in New Caledonia is now at risk
Media Release: 2019 Lowy Institute Poll – Australian Attitudes To Climate Change
In 2019, Australians rank climate change at the top of a list of ten possible threats to Australia's vital interests in the next ten years. A majority of Australian adults (64%) see climate change as ‘a critical threat’, an increase of six points from 2018 and 18 points since 2014
Time for Australia's campaigning leaders to debate China?
Politicians avoid arousing voter concern despite Huawei and South China Sea disputes.
Originally published in Nikkei Asian Review
Press Release - 2019 Lowy Institute Polling: Australian attitudes towards foreign policy issues ahead of the 2019 federal election
In an early release of select results from the Lowy Institute Poll 2019, the Liberal-National Coalition holds a clear lead over the Labor Party on five out of nine key foreign policy issues
We may not be interested in the world, but the world is interested in us
Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald
Indonesian strongman lost, but identity politics won
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
By Ben Bland
Australian Values, Australia’s Interests — Foreign Policy Under A Shorten Labor Government
On Wednesday 1 May, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Senator Penny Wong gave a speech titled ‘Australian values, Australia’s interests - Foreign policy under a Shorten Labor Government’. After the address, the Lowy Institute’s Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove chaired an audience Q&
By Penny Wong
Great disrupter’s Mid-East missteps
Originally published in The Australian
Why do jihadis do what they do?
Mainstream Muslim clerics can best challenge the violent fringe of their religion and defeat toxic ideas.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
Islamic State's three tactics that will bring terror closer to home
Originally published in ABC Opinion
By Lydia Khalil
Sri Lanka’s perfect storm of failure
Originally published in Foreign Policy
By Lydia Khalil
The World’s Most Complicated Single-Day Election Is a Feat of Democracy
Indonesia’s ability to hold free and fair polls illustrates many of the oft-hidden processes that, beyond the simple act of casting ballots, underpin democratic societies.
Originally published in The Atlantic
By Ben Bland
Four men, three Indonesian contradictions
The choice of running mate by both candidates illustrates their efforts to overcome Indonesia's size, diversity and difficulty to govern.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
By Ben Bland
Politics in Indonesia: Resilient elections, defective democracy
The pressures on Indonesian democracy are not likely to abate under a second-term Jokowi or a Prabowo presidency
By Ben Bland
China’s Doghouse Is Smaller Than It Looks
Originally published in Bloomberg Opinion
Indonesia must seize trade war opportunity
Jakarta needs export-boosting policies to draw global manufacturers diversifying away from China.
Originally published in Nikkei Asian Review
By Ben Bland
Captured Islamic State fighters pose dilemma for Western countries
Originally published in The Australian
‘New’ Malaysia: Four key challenges in the near term
In the aftermath of Malaysia’s momentous regime change, the new government faces a number of challenges to implementing wholesale political reform
By James Chin
Can outside pressure shift Beijing?
Originally published in Nikkei Asian Review
Marise Payne on Australia’s international cyber strategy
The Lowy Institute hosted the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon Marise Payne, for an address on Australia’s international cyber strategy
Deal will help tame Indonesia's risks
Originally published in Australian Financial Review
By Ben Bland
Hanoi summit: Trump walks but time is on Kim Jong Un's side
Originally published in Australian Financial Review
Jokowi must prove his doubters wrong, not appease them
Originally published in Australian Financial Review
By Ben Bland
The supreme challenge facing Iran
Originally published in The Australian
Beijing won't allow Hong Kong to sing from a different song sheet
Originally published in Nikkei Asian Review
By Ben Bland
East Asia’s decoupling
East Asia is no longer reliant on US or Western markets to fuel its growth, giving it more room to manage amid global trade tensions
By Roland Rajah
2018 Australia–Papua New Guinea Emerging Leaders Dialogue Outcomes Report
The Lowy Institute hosted the sixth annual Australia–Papua New Guinea Emerging Leaders Dialogue from 4 to 6 December 2018 in Cairns, Australia
Brexit warning for Australia: Voter immigration concerns an easy fringe target
Originally published in Australian Financial Review
We need the Five Eyes spy network, but with oversight
Originally published in Sydney Morning Herald
The Ineffable Hulk, Trump is always one temper tantrum from disaster
Originally published in Sydney Morning Herald
Economic conflict between America and China: A truce declared, the talks begin
The real issue in the US–China trade negotiation is the dramatic change in China’s economy evident over the past decade
By John Edwards
After the Midterms: Australia, the United States and the international order
Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove reflects on the Trump administration, the effect of the midterms on US foreign policy and what this means for Australia and the world order. This speech was delivered at the Lowy Institute on 13 November 2018
Curious: Canberra mirrors Moscow on Jerusalem
Originally published in Sydney Morning Herald
Europe's crisis of unrealistic expectations
Originally published in Australian Financial Review
Power Rangers
Data reveals a major power balance shift in the Asia-Pacific, writes Lowy Institute research fellow Bonnie Bley
By Bonnie Bley
Once we were the laughing stock of the world, but now it's worse
At first the world laughed at Australia's political instability, but more serious consequences are emerging as international summit season comes to an end.
This article was originally published in Sydney Morning Herald on 3 December 2018.
America vs the West
Can the liberal world order be preserved
By Kori Schake
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