It is two decades since a bloody secessionist conflict on Bougainville was settled – first in a truce, and then in a peace agreement that deferred the question of the region’s future political stat
The withdrawal by the Trump administration from the Obama-era nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) and the subsequent campaign of ‘maximum pressure’ against Iran by the United States in an effort to g
Hong Kong is facing the deepest political crisis since it was handed back to China by the United Kingdom in 1997.
Australia, along with many other Western countries, has a strong interest in the ongoing stability of Afghanistan.
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 August 5, the Lowy Institute held the Melbourne 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.
Global wealth and power are shifting eastwards, changing the way the region – and indeed the world – works politically and strategically.
The Lowy Institute hosted one of Australia’s most provocative public commentators, Professor Hugh White.
One year after the corruption-tainted government of Najib Razak was ousted in a stunning electoral upset, sentiment in Malaysia has turned from elation to frustration.
The Indian general election is the world’s biggest exercise in democracy, with 900 million eligible voters.
The Lowy Institute was pleased to host the Hon Kevin Rudd for a discussion on Xi Jinping’s China and the new era of strategic competition with the United States across trade, technology, and geopol
Since September 11, Australia has enacted over 80 counterterrorism and national security laws. The laws are often controversial although usually passed quickly through Parliament.
When Vladimir Putin was re-elected as Russian president in 2018, his position as the dominant personality of the post-Soviet era was enshrined.
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.
In Remaking the Middle East, Lowy Institute Nonresident Fellow Anthony Bubalo argued that despite continuing turmoil in the region the future of the Middle East was not inevitably bleak.
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
China’s economic future is more uncertain than ever.
More than a decade since the global financial crisis, economic thinking has continued to evolve, shaped by the harsh realities of recent experience.
After a coup, a new constitution and a controversial election, Thailand’s political future remains as uncertain as ever.