On Sunday Egyptians marked President Mohammed Morsi's first anniversary in office by protesting — mostly against him.

Infrastructure is a sturdy perennial on the G8 and G20 agendas.

Dani Rodrik on the future of economic growth.

Melissa Conley Tyler is National Executive Director of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.

Two of Australia's best journalistic exports, Mick Ware and John Garnaut, were at the Lowy Institute recently, and I took the opportunity to talk to them both about their remarkable careers and the countries from which they have reported.

Richard Broinowski writes in response to the interview we did with The Age's Dan Flitton:

One area of policy difference between Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard immediately raised after last night's leadership change is asylum seekers.

Every think-tanker wants to be mentioned in The Economist, so it was a thrill to find myself quoted several times in the Banyan column back in March on the

With the death of actor James Gandolfini, Clive James has written a short new introduction to a brilliant essay he wrote ten years ago celebrating The Sopranos, which sta

I really enjoy reading Hugh White's work on regional security, but as a Middle East analyst, he makes a good China pundit.

Gorana Grgic is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney.

Alasdair Stuart responds to last Friday's piece about the cholera outbreak in Haiti:

In 1968 a US Army major said of the attack on Ben Tre that 'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it'.

This year's Lowy Institute poll reveals Australians' lack knowledge of Indonesia and a pronounced mistrust of our northern neighbour.

More signs of economic integration between Beijing and Taipei. (Thanks Malcolm.)

Danielle Rajendram is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's International Security Program.

The Syrian civil war is a land battle. Comparisons with Libya and talk of no-fly zones (NFZ) as some kind of low-risk game changer ignore this fact.

Katherine Ellena is a Research Associate with the US Naval Postgraduate School and a former New Zealand diplomat. The views expressed here are hers alone.

  Luke McGreevy is the winner of the Lowy Institute's undergraduate op-ed competition. Luke is an honours student at Monash University.

Reader Peter Frank recommends this Spiegel analysis of the proposed US-EU

This week saw the US and EU agree to launch talks on what has been described as potentially the 'biggest bilateral trade deal in history.'