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On August 8, the Lowy Institute held the Sydney launch of the latest Lowy Institute Paper published by Penguin Random House Australia, Xi Jinping: The Backlash by Richard McGregor.

On 30 May 2019, James Marape was sworn in as the eighth Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea.

The Lowy Institute hosted one of Australia’s most provocative public commentators, Professor Hugh White.

The Indian general election is the world’s biggest exercise in democracy, with 900 million eligible voters.

Since September 11, Australia has enacted over 80 counterterrorism and national security laws. The laws are often controversial although usually passed quickly through Parliament.

The foreign policy of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister, has often been judged as beholden to Britain and the United States.

Through the course of Xi Jinping’s presidency, China has been working to shape an alternative version of the internet – one in which the party state asserts its cyber sovereignty through an extensi

More than a decade since the global financial crisis, economic thinking has continued to evolve, shaped by the harsh realities of recent experience.

The attacks on Al Noor and Linwood Mosques in Christchurch, in which 50 people lost their lives, represent the deadliest mass killing in New Zealand’s modern history and the worst terrorist attacks