Publications

The coup in Myanmar will weaken ASEAN just when outsiders want it to look solid in an era of big-power competition. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Ben Bland

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China’s threat to the US makes us a power player

There’s a seminal shift underway in Australia’s relationship with the US based on mutual need and Morrison’s determination to act more forcefully. Originally published in The Australian

By Alan Dupont

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Australia must take immediate action to stave off catastrophe in our nearest neighbour

Originally published in The Australian

By Jonathan Pryke

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Credit Biden’s bid for united states of democracy

Originally published in The Australian

By Alan Dupont

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Blame austerity, not the RBA for post-GFC slow growth

Ross Garnaut is wrong to fault the Reserve Bank for not cutting rates during the ‘Dog Days’ of 2013-2019. The real culprit was elsewhere. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review.

By Stephen Grenville

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What Europe needs to know about Xi Jinping

The Chinese president has no rivals or likely successors and fervently believes in China’s unstoppable rise. Originally published in Politico

By Richard McGregor

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Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman headed for a long spell in the US diplomatic freezer

Originally published in The Australian

By Rodger Shanahan

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Being Chinese in Australia: Public Opinion in Chinese Communities

Amid debates on foreign interference, Australia-China relations and the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lowy Institute’s Multiculturalism, Identity and Influence Project conducted a nationally representative poll of Chinese-Australians in November 2020 to better understand their outlook on life in

By Natasha Kassam, Jennifer Hsu

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Harness collective clout of allies to counter China’s power

Unless like-minded nations bind together to push back in unison, Beijing will keep singling out countries for punishment at little cost to its interest. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Richard McGregor

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If money is practically free, why is nobody investing it?

Negative interest rates won’t help when it is clear that there are other reasons entrepreneurs have lost their mojo. Originally published in The Australian Financial Review

By Stephen Grenville

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How China is remaking the world in its vision

This is an edited extract of an essay in the latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs, The March of Autocracy, published today. Originally published in The Conversation.

By Natasha Kassam

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What’s gone wrong with our interest rate policy?

The RBA has been forced into lockstep with a misguided US Federal Reserve held hostage by volatile financial markets. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review.

By Stephen Grenville

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Chaotic America means troubled world

The West pins its hopes on a rules-based liberal order. But that doesn’t work if the US standard-bearer is dysfunctional. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review.

By Madeleine Nyst

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Eyes on the Prize: Australia, China, and the Antarctic Treaty System

Despite China’s increasing assertiveness in Antarctica, the Antarctic Treaty System is not failing and Australia should refrain from geostrategic panic

By Claire Young

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Navigating a Three-Pronged Crisis

This is an edited version of the speech delivered by Hervé Lemahieu to The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies on 22 December 2020

By Hervé Lemahieu

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Why Biden wants to be more Trump than Obama on China

Beijing should expect more policy continuity from Washington. Originally published in Nikkei Asia

By Richard McGregor

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Australia’s politicians must get to know the neighbours

When other democracies are watching see how we manage China, it is odd that Australia is looking so far away for inspiration. Originally published in The Australian Financial Review

By Richard McGregor

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Domestic reform key to India’s rise

The geoeconomic benefits of working towards more robust growth, both now and in the future, are multiple. Originally published by the Observer Research Foundation

By Alyssa Leng

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The new Biden administration: a Lowy Institute collection

By Michael Fullilove, Daniel Flitton, Iona Main, Thomas Wright, Ely Ratner

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America’s best chance for unity

Published on 23 January 2021 in the Australian Financial Review

By Michael Fullilove

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We can’t combat China’s ‘grey zone’ war while polarised

Originally published in The Australian

By Ben Scott

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In the defining year of his presidency, Joko Widodo faces an incredibly difficult challenge

Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

By Ben Bland

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Australia's relationship with China can survive – but it won't be the same again

There can be no return to the relations of the past. The question for 2021 is how to find a new settling point. Originally published in The Guardian

By Natasha Kassam

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Only a resilient democracy could have survived the mob violence

Originally published in The Australian

By Alan Dupont

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There are reasons to feel OK about 2020, but a long-forgotten worry got worse

Originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald

By Sam Roggeveen

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Fighting the dragon: we’re doing it wrong

As China slowly strangles our exports to break our will, Australians have responded with a range of emotions — none of them effective. Originally published in The Australian

By Alan Dupont

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Australia needs America to follow global rules too

Australia's troubles with China won't end until its US ally starts more actively supporting a rules-based world order itself. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Ben Scott

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Why Australia Should Respond to China’s Provocations With Self-Reliance

Originally published in World Politics Review

By Sam Roggeveen

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Indonesia's Jokowi turns politics into a family business

One-time furniture maker who fought his way to the top was meant to be different. Originally published in Nikkei Asia

By Ben Bland

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Avoiding a Pacific Lost Decade: Financing the Pacific's COVID-19 Recovery

The Pacific's post-pandemic economic revival will rely on an internationalmulti-year recovery package of grants and loans led by Australia

By Roland Rajah, Alexandre Dayant

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On China, Australia is left counting the cost

The Australian government’s approach to its biggest foreign policy challenge is not working. There needs to be less conflict and more statecraft. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review.

By Richard McGregor

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China cannot have it both ways on trade

Beijing's tactic of using trade as a political stick against Australia will not impress the rest of the world. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Natasha Kassam

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China sends a message with Australian crackdown

Pressure by Beijing offers a glimpse of the road map for a more illiberal order. Originally published in the Financial Times

By Richard McGregor

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War crimes report: Lest we forget 39 Afghan civilians murdered by soldiers in Aussie uniforms

Originally published in The Australian

By Rodger Shanahan

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2016 Event | An address from Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States

In 2016, the Lowy Institute and the United States Studies Centre hosted then-Vice President, Joe Biden, on the Australia-US relationship

By Michael Fullilove

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The New Biden Administration: A Lowy Institute Collection

On this page, we have curated the best publications, conversations and event recordings to help you understand the foreign policy implications of Joe Biden's presidency

By Michael Fullilove, Daniel Flitton, Thomas Wright

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Xi Jinping’s Strength is China’s Weakness

Unlike any other Chinese leader since 1949, he has no identifiable rivals and no likely successors. Originally published in The New York Times

By Richard McGregor

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The US, not China, is Australia's most difficult relationship

All the talk of “mateship” and ever “deepening ties” in relation to our alliance with the US tends to obscure the competitive nature of foreign policy. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Daniel Flitton

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A dysfunctional America helps China – but hurts Australia and our region

It doesn’t matter to Beijing who wins the presidential election. But a divided America may translate into an isolated Australia. Originally published in The Guardian

By Natasha Kassam

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From Australia, it's hard to comprehend the depredations on display at the US election

The Republican party has been playing dirty electoral politics for decades. The Democrats are just not on the same playing field. Originally published in The Guardian

By Sam Hendricks

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Australia will benefit if American craziness subsides

Originally published in Sydney Morning Herald

By Michael Fullilove

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Digital Authoritarianism, China and COVID

The coronavirus has showcased China's cyber-powered socialcontrol capabilities, with implications for human rights worldwide

By Lydia Khalil

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Xi Jinping speeds China's ascent

China's leader is driving his country to match a declining America by 2035. That is only four or five Australian elections away. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Richard McGregor

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US election: Trump's China policy is here to stay, no matter who wins

Allies see America as tougher, but weaker. Originally published in Nikkei Asia

By Richard McGregor

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The Case for Australia to Step Up in Southeast Asia

A policy brief by Hervé Lemahieu, Director of the Power and Diplomacy Program at the Lowy Institute, published by The Brookings Institution

By Hervé Lemahieu

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2020 Asia Power Index Key Findings Report

The annual Asia Power Index — launched by the Lowy Institute in 2018 — measures resources and influence to rank the relative power of states in Asia. The project maps out the existing distribution of power as it stands today, and tracks shifts in the balance of power over time. The Index ranks

By Hervé Lemahieu , Alyssa Leng

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