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Executive Director

Lowy Institute

Areas of ExpertiseAustralian foreign policy; US politics and foreign policy; Asia and the Pacific; Global institutions

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The predicament of proximity: how should Australia respond to China's rise to power?

In this op-ed for The Saturday Paper, Michael Fullilove argues that Australia must pursue an ambitious and coherent foreign policy to respond to the rise of China.

By Michael Fullilove

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Neville Wran: Farewell to a giant

This item was originally published on The Drum. Neville Wran, premier of New South Wales for a decade, brought professionalism, class and wit to Australian politics. Clothed in a good suit and armed with a sharp wit, he dominated his government, the Labor Party and the state. I first encountered

By Michael Fullilove

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Left’s deafening silence

In this op-ed for the Australian, Michael Fullilove laments the lack of left-wing perspectives on the Russian-Ukraine crisis. Dr Fullilove sees this as contributing to a lack of debate in Australia on the issue.

By Michael Fullilove

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Russia-Ukraine: The silence of the left

One of the striking things about the Australian debate on Crimea is that there hasn't been one. Events in Crimea may have serious consequences for the world order, yet with some honourable exceptions, the issue has not been addressed in Australia with either thoughtfulness or urgency. In particular

By Michael Fullilove

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Big is absolutely better as we face an evolving Asia

Big is absolutely better as we face an evolving AsiaDr Michael FulliloveThe Australian12 March 2014http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/big-is-absolutely-better-as-we-face-an-evolving-asia/story-e6frgd0x-1226851803920

By Michael Fullilove

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Address to the National Press Club: 'A Larger Australia' by Michael Fullilove

In his first address to the National Press Club of Australia, Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove called for 'a larger Australia' to meet the international challenges that the country faces

By Michael Fullilove

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Hawks must admit they got Iraq wrong

Dr Michael Fullilove calls for pundits who cheered on Australia's invasion of Iraq to admit their grievous error.

By Michael Fullilove

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US must follow FDR's lead on Asia

Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove argues that United States President Barack Obama must follow Franklin D. Roosevelt's lead regarding foreign policy in Asia

By Michael Fullilove

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With New Defense White Paper, Australia Rebalances

With New Defense White Paper, Australia RebalancesDr Michael FulliloveWorld Politics Review10 May 2013

By Michael Fullilove

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Where do Australia rivals stand on foreign policy?

Viewpoint: Where do Australia rivals stand on foreign policy?Dr Michael FulliloveBBC News Asia28 August 2013Australia's election winner will need to address a broader range of global issues in a changing strategic environment, writes the Lowy Institute's Michael Fullilove, as he looks at

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Diplomacy Isn't Just for the Diplomats

Diplomacy Isn't Just for the DiplomatsDr Michael FulliloveUS News4 March 2014http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/03/03/dont-worry-about-obamas-political-ambassador-nominations

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Tony Abbott's diplomatic wobbles reveal challenges of new world order

In the Sydney Morning Herald, Anthony Bubalo and Michael Fullilove review why the Australian goverment seems to be staggering from crisis to crisis, arguing it has more to do with shifting plates of global power than problems in Canberra.

By Anthony Bubalo, Michael Fullilove

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The 'Pivot' has run out of puff

Despite Joe Biden’s Asia trip, Obama’s foreign policy has seemed Atlantic-focused recently

By Michael Fullilove

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Nothing to fear but fear

In this op-ed, Dr Michael Fullilove, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, discusses America's 'war-weariness', drawing comparisons with Roosevelt's decision to support the Allies in World War II

By Michael Fullilove

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Presenting the new-look Interpreter

Today we're proud to launch a new look for The Interpreter. The Interpreter began in November 2007 when it was unusual for a think tank to engage in daily online commentary and analysis. The field is now more crowded, but The Interpreter remains not just Australia's premier international policy

By Michael Fullilove

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Caught between the U.S. and China

In a New York Times op-ed, Lowy institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove argues that the 2013 election campaign ignored the greater strategic and economic challenges facing Australia.

By Michael Fullilove

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Judicious ambition: international policy priorities for the new Australian Government

In this new Lowy Institute Analysis, a number of Lowy Institute experts outline what they believe should be some key international priorities for the new Australian Government.

By Michael Fullilove, Anthony Bubalo, Rory Medcalf, James Brown, Mike Callaghan, Linda Jakobson, Jenny Hayward-Jones, Philippa Brant, Khalid Koser

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Reports from a Turbulent Decade

Throughout a decade of remarkable change and upheaval, the Lowy Institute has discussed, dissected and analysed the big issues shaping global politics, and provided fresh policy ideas for Australian decision-makers.Ranked as Australia's leading think tank, the Lowy Institute provides high-

By Michael Fullilove, Anthony Bubalo

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In 100 words: The most important issue of this campaign

Over the coming days, we kick off our election coverage with short posts from our experts on what they regard as the most important international policy issue of this campaign. I will be happy if international issues get a proper airing of any kind during the campaign. That is rarely the case.

By Michael Fullilove

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The day FDR became a wartime president

Excerpted from Rendezvous With Destiny. To read the full article online, please click here

By Michael Fullilove

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The Personal President

Why FDR shunned the State Department and instead sent friends and cronies on important diplomatic missions. To read the full article please click here

By Michael Fullilove

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Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World

In the dark days between Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt sent five remarkable men on dramatic and dangerous missions to Europe. The missions were highly unorthodox and they confounded and infuriated

By Michael Fullilove

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What Australians think about America and China

In an opinion piece for the Jakarta Post, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove writes about Australian opinions on America and China.

By Michael Fullilove

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Five lessons on leadership from FDR

In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove outlines five important lessons on leadership from FDR

By Michael Fullilove

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Obama needs an FDR-like foreign policy pivot

In an opinion piece in the LA Times, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove writes that FDR combined meticulous planning and adroit public relations to reorient the U.S. and President Obama must do the same

By Michael Fullilove

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We see China and U.S. as central to our future

In an opinion piece in The Australian newspaper, Michael Fullilove and Alex Oliver describe Australians’ complex attitudes towards important foreign policy issues, and in particular, Australia’s relations with its two most important partners: China as its most important economic partner

By Michael Fullilove, Alex Oliver

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We need Aussie view of world

The rise of Asia means Australia finds it self a lot closer to the centre of geopolitical and economic action than in the past. It is vital to our national interest, therefore, that Australians understand what is happening beyond our shores

By Michael Fullilove

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We stood by the U.S. as it erred grievously in Iraq

In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove examines the costs of the war in Iraq to the United States and the implications for the Australia-US alliance

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Foreign service remains vastly underfunded

In an opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review, Dr Michael Fullilove and Alex Oliver argue that as Australians look ahead to a federal election in September, they should be asking tough questions of both major parties about the funding of their foreign policies.

By Michael Fullilove, Alex Oliver

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Lowy Institute's books of 2012 part V

Part 1 of this series by Lowy Institute research staff here; part 2 here; part 3 here; part 4 here. Burmese Days by George Orwell. Selected by Michael Fullilove. My book of 2012 was first published in 1934. George Orwell's novel Burmese Days is a grim but vivid account of life in Burma in the

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The audacity of reasonableness: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, US foreign policy and Australia

At first glance, the differences between the two candidates for president of the United States in 2012, President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, are striking. Each candidate is doing his best to emphasise these differences. Most commentators have drawn sharp distinctions between the two

By Michael Fullilove

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The US mid-term elections and the Obama Administration

On Friday 5 November, two leading commentators on US politics and foreign policy, Dr Michael Fullilove and Daniel Flitton, provided some immediate analysis of the mid-term results as part of the Lowy Institute’s ‘Food for Thought’ program in Melbourne

By Michael Fullilove, Daniel Flitton

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The stakeholder spectrum: China and the United Nations

In recent decades China has become a far more active and effective player in, and contributor to, the United Nations. However, according to Dr Michael Fullilove, the limits of this enhanced engagement are becoming clear. Dr Fullilove emphasises that while the West might advocate that China become a

By Michael Fullilove

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Hope or glory? The presidential election, US foreign policy and Australia

What is at stake in a US presidential election in terms of American foreign policy? How might the temperament and world-views of the respective candidates be interpreted? In this paper Dr Michael Fullilove compares and contrasts the foreign policies of Barack Obama and John McCain in the 2008

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World wide webs: Diasporas and the international system

In this Lowy Institute Paper, Dr Michael Fullilove argues that national diasporas are like ‘world wide webs’, with dense, interlocking strands spanning the globe and binding different individuals, institutions and countries together.

By Michael Fullilove

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Capital punishment and Australian foreign policy

In this Policy Brief, Dr Michael Fullilove examines how the Australian Government implements its stated opposition to the death penalty. He finds that while Australia is an effective advocate for Australian nationals on death row, we do less than we could in relation to universal abolition.

By Michael Fullilove

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Diaspora: The World Wide Web of Australians

In this Lowy Institute Paper, Dr Michael Fullilove argues that national diasporas are like ‘“world wide webs”’, with dense, interlocking strands spanning the globe and binding different individuals, institutions and countries together. The Paper follows those strands and describes the webs

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Fuelling confrontation: Iran, the US and the oil weapon

In this new Lowy Institute Analysis, Anthony Bubalo, Michael Fullilove and Mark Thirlwell explore the prospect and implications of Iran's using oil as a weapon in its current confrontation with the international community over the nuclear issue

By Michael Fullilove, Mark Thirlwell, Anthony Bubalo

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The testament of Solomons: RAMSI and international state-building

The unrest in Honiara of 18-19 April underlines the fragility of Solomon Islands as well as the sheer difficulty of rebuilding weak states. The background to and key features of the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) were set out in this March 2006 Analysis by Dr

By Michael Fullilove

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Iran, the international community and the nuclear issue: where to next?

In a new Lowy Institute Analysis, Anthony Bubalo and Michael Fullilove examine the likely trajectory of efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear question, an issue that is likely to lead the international foreign policy agenda in 2006.

By Michael Fullilove, Anthony Bubalo

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Angels and dragons: Asia, the UN, reform and the next Secretary-General

This Issues Brief assesses the relationship between the United Nations and Asia – both the UN's activities in Asia and the behaviour of Asian states at the UN.

By Michael Fullilove

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Diaspora: the world wide web of Australians

In this Lowy Institute Paper, Dr Michael Fullilove and Dr Chloë Flutter argue that the community of Australian expatriates is a great asset for this country.

By Michael Fullilove, Chloë Flutter

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Bush is from Mars, Kerry is from Mars too

Although there are significant differences in style and substance between George Bush and John Kerry, the similarities in foreign policy terms are more striking than is sometimes understood. From Australia's perspective, the fundamentals of our relationship with the US are excellent and the alliance

By Michael Fullilove

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