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Public holiday reading: the Queen’s Birthday
Publishing will be light on Monday for the Queen’s Birthday public holiday in Australia (the present occupant on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II, was actually born on 21 April). By…
How the Abe era reshaped Japan’s foreign and security policy
Book review: Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzo, by Michael J Green (Columbia University Press)
Michael Green’s examination of Japan’s foreign and…
Understanding the rise of Trump – and how it might happen again
Book Review: Democracy Under Fire: Donald Trump and the Breaking of American History, by Lawrence R. Jacobs (Oxford University Press 2022)
Joe Biden demonstrated in the 2020…
Saving democracy from Russian rage
Much is being written about Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, and much more will surely be said in the months and years ahead of this potentially epoch-defining event. But…
US monetary policy: the ripple effect
Book Review: The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, by Christopher Leonard (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
A book focused on the…
Cold front: Antarctica and its military future
Book Review: The Future of Antarctica: Scenarios from Classical Geopolitics, by J McGee, D Edmiston and M Haward (Springer, 2022)
For a place that is agreed by treaty to be used…
History lessons from “The Great Crash”?
In J.K. Galbraith’s entertaining 1954 account of the stock-market collapse of 1929 The Great Crash (re-released by Penguin in paperback last year), the celebrated economist took…
Covid-19 and -20 and -21 … Best of The Interpreter 2021
The year began with a simple question that everyone wanted answered: can vaccines offer an exit plan from Covid-19? Rania MacIntrye:
There are more than 60 vaccines in clinical…
Top 10 of 2021: The most-read articles on The Interpreter
Here’s a countdown of the top 10 articles you read the most in 2021 – a terrific mix of high-quality analysis of big events and cross-cutting themes.
We’re taking a break…
That 70s show for an Interpreter 2021 favourite
Our end-of-year series as the Lowy Institute staff offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs for 2021. More recommendations and reflections. –Eds
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