The Turnbull government has announced it will introduce legislation to combat foreign intervention in Australian politics, after allegations of interference by the Chinese party-state.
“Prosperity” has been a significant theme in several of President Xi Jinping’s major speeches over the past year, both at home and abroad. But what does he mean by prosperity?
Panel discussion at the Lowy Institute conference Australia in the Pacific: Enhancing Security through Regional Resilience, held in Canberra on 5 April 2018.
Senator Marise Payne, Minister of Defence, delivering the keynote address at the Lowy Institute conference Australia in the Pacific: Enhancing Security through Regional Resilience, held in Canberra
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will launch its flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2018, with its focus on “How Technology Impacts Jobs”.
Terrorists are recruited via social media, nuclear weapons programs are disrupted via computer viruses, world leaders communicate via Twitter, and some foreign affairs departments have larger onlin
In recent years, Russia has asserted itself against neighbouring Ukraine, become a key player in the Syria conflict, allegedly interfered in US domestic politics, and been labelled by the US as a g
As Russian president or prime minister, for the last 18 years Vladimir Putin has been one of the most prominent but enigmatic figures on the global stage.
The Korean Peninsula has historically been a battleground for the major powers.
Announced in late 2013, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is both a colossal infrastructure development scheme and a grandly ambitious undertaking of geostrategic proportions.
Asia’s economic transformation is reshaping the global distribution of power, changing the way the region and the world operates politically and strategically.
Following a period spent in Japan developing its national security apparatus and international security cooperation with partners from Europe to the Indo-Pacific, Yukio Okamoto, Adjunct Professor a
Now that Islamic State has been defeated militarily, what does the future hold for Iraq?
Alyssa Ayres, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), joined Aaron Connelly, Research Fellow for the East Asia Program at the Lowy Institute, to
New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rt Hon Winston Peters, addressed his government’s plans to work with its Pacific partners to meet the many strategic and develop
Over the past fifty years, Singapore has become one of the world’s most prosperous countries and a dynamic node in the world economy.
The Lowy Institute has conducted robust, independent polling on Australian attitudes to foreign policy issues annually since 2005.
On 1 February, the Lowy Institute’s Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove chaired a discussion examining the key issues likely to dominate the international agenda in 2018.