In conversation: Hugh White on how to defend Australia
The Lowy Institute hosted one of Australia’s most provocative public commentators, Professor Hugh White.
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.
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
Since the start of the Syrian civil war, up to 200 Australians have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight with jihadist groups, and dozens more have been charged with terrorism offences in Australia
The Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Penny Wong, addressed the Lowy Institute on what a Labor Government would mean for Australia’s international engagement.
The economy, tax, debt and health are the issues that are most likely to dominate the federal election campaign. But there are other matters of importance to Australians that should be debated.
Following a succession of severe conflicts that have caused massive loss of life, dislocation and grave human rights violations, the task of the human rights movement today is a daunting one.
The relationship between Washington and Beijing is increasingly competitive. The economic interdependence that once underwrote the relationship now undermines it.
On Wednesday 27 March, the Lowy Institute hosted Mike Burgess, Director-General on the Australian Signals Directorate, for an address on offensive cyber.
Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove had a conversation about global issues with Stephen J. Hadley, former National Security Adviser to President George W. Bush.