West Asia
Reader riposte: The forgotten white paper
The Defence White Paper is due to be released within the hour. Luke Maynard, a graduate of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, writes:
Hugh White was right – this white…
Martin Indyk on US Middle East policy: Obama's Michael Corleone moment
A superb speech this morning at the Lowy Institute from Ambassador Martin Indyk, Director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution and a former US Ambassador…
Chinese aid to Africa: A detective story
Philippa Brant is a Lowy Institute Research Associate.
Earlier this week a massive database of Chinese development finance activities in Africa (warning: big PDF) was…
Reader riposte: America and the Syrian conflict
Ghassan Salem writes:
I've read and found very interesting Rodger Shanahan's comments in response to Anthony Bubalo's post about Obama's position regarding Syria's situation and…
Syria and the Obama Doctrine
My colleague Anthony Bubalo has taken President Obama to task for failing to put his political-diplomatic shoulder to the wheel in seeking a resolution to the Syria crisis. It is…
Syria: What happens when America can only afford to be ordinary
A lot has been written about President Obama's equivocal response to the almost equally equivocal evidence (so far) that Syria has used chemical weapons against its own people…
India links: 2014 general election, urban-rural grey area, India's 'feeble' foreign policy and more
Danielle Rajendram is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's International Security Program whose work focuses on India and China-India relations.
The brutal rape of a…
Israel: New electoral law is a hope for peace
Jack Georgieff is the 2013 Thawley Research Scholar in International Security at the Lowy Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC.
This…
Qatar: The mouse that thinks it's a lion
Five years ago I wrote a post outlining how Qatar was using its wealth to act as a regional mediator, raising its profile and as a consequence ruffling the feathers of some of its…
Lebanon: Unmistakable signs of decline
Vanessa Newby is a PhD candidate at Griffith University. Photo by the author.
A television show called al-Azaim ('The President') is causing great excitement in Lebanon. The…