Publications

Forty years after independence, Papua New Guinea is the largest single recipient of aid from Australia. Yet Australians seem to be largely ambivalent about the country. Few Australians know the history of our colonial rule in PNG and our ties to the country are being forgotten.    

Beijing must beware the Thucydides trap Alan Dupont The Australian 2 February 2016

Saudi royals send a message Rodger Shanahan The Australian 8 January 2016

In this Report, the Lowy Institute’s Melanesia team summarises the outcomes of the third annual Australia-Papua New Guinea Emerging Leaders Dialogue. The Dialogue assembled a group of dynamic young leaders from diverse fields in both countries. Discussion focused on redefining employment,

Australia's policy on America and China needs no big changes Michael Fullilove The Australian 3 October 2015 Click here for online text. 

Think big and act big globally for a larger Australia Michael Fullilove The Australian 17 October 2015 Click here for online text

The great game is not a spectator sport Michael Fullilove Sydney Morning Herald 5 December 2015 Click here for the online text

In this Lowy Institute Analysis, Dr Matthew Sussex surveys the security, energy, and regional engagement implications of Russia’s pivot to Asia and argues that despite numerous challenges confronting Putin, Moscow’s rebalance should be taken seriously

For most of Australia's history, the world was run by nations like our own. But now the international order that has prevailed since the end of the Second World War is fraying. Global institutions are showing their age. Our great and powerful friends are becoming less great and powerful. Rising

Four key narratives help explain the way that China acts in and interprets the world, providing a more nuanced guide to China’s aims and ambitions and helping to shape more effective responses to China

As the world begins negotiations at the Paris international climate negotiations next week, the majority of adult Australians (62%) say the Government should be prepared to make stronger commitments on emissions reductions in the interests of reaching a global agreement, according to Lowy Institute

G20 needs to find new momentum to progress global issues Tristram Sainsbury and Hannah Wurf Australian Financial Review 13 November 2015

On 11 November, former Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran delivered the 2015 Owen Harries Lecture on India's role in the new global order

In this Lowy Institute Analysis, Research Fellow Associate Professor Rodger Shanahan examines how Arab Gulf States, led by Saudi Arabia, are responding to the Obama administration’s less interventionist approach to the Middle East by adopting a more assertive regional policy aimed at containing

In the wake of a report from CSIS and ANU calling for a stronger US alliance refocused on the Asia Pacific, Alex Oliver examines the eleven years of Lowy Institute polling on attitudes to the US alliance, and cautions that, despite Australians' strong support for the alliance, any

Radicalisation woes still here Rodger Shanahan The Canberra Times 27 October 2015

South China Sea dispute: US challenge may fall into China trap Euan Graham The Australian Financial Review 19 October 2015

Putin’s gambit changes game Alan Dupont The Australian 9 October 2015

TPP stifling rather than sustaining Leon Berkelmans Sydney Morning Herald 7 October 2015

In this Analysis, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Aaron L. Connelly examines the role of the US Congress in policy toward the Asia-Pacific region

Alex Oliver looks at the foreign policy issues which may test Australia's new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull. Click here for the online text

It’s time to consider negative interest rates to bolster growth Leon Berkelmans   The Australian 12 September 2015  

East Timor’s Foreign Minister and Nobel laureate Dr Jose Ramos Horta spoke about the foreign policy and security challenges confronting his fledgling country two and a half years after independence. Dr Ramos Horta is well known in Australia, and internationally, as an activist and

In this Report, Lowy Institute Research Associate Brendan Thomas-Noone and Nonresident Fellow Professor Rory Medcalf examine the implications of sea-based nuclear weapons for strategic stability in the Indo-Pacific. This paper is part of a wider research and outreach project on nuclear