On 27 July, the Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, delivered the annual Lowy Lecture at the Sydney Town Hall.

On 27 July the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, delivered the 2017 Lowy Lecture at Sydney Town Hall.

On May 9, the Project on International Order and Strategy at Brookings hosted Bobo Lo for a discussion on “A Wary Embrace,” a new paper from the Lowy Institute for International Policy, where Bobo Lo sets out the critical question of whether Russia and China will “define the rules of global politics” in the 21st century.

Allan Gyngell's new book 'Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World since 1942' is a gripping and authoritative account of the way Australians and their governments have helped create the world we now inhabit.

On 26 April the Lowy Institute hosted Allan Gyngell, former Executive Director of the Lowy Institute and former Prime Minister Paul Keating for a discussion of the history of Australian foreign affairs and its impact on our place in the world now, moderated by Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove.

Lowy Institute East Asia Research Fellow Aaron L Connelly speaks to the BBC's Sharanjit Leyl about the purpose and implications of a new China-Myanmar oil pipeline.

On 14 December Admiral Harry Harris, Commander of US Pacific Command, addressed the Lowy Institute on America's enduring interests in the Indo-Asia-Pacific.

In his role as Commander US Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris is responsible for military operations in an area which encompasses more than 100 million square miles—more than half the earth’s surface. Admiral Harris graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1978 and undertook graduate studies in East Asia security at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, and Oxford University. He has served in every geographic combatant command region, and participated in a range of major operations, including Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom, and Odyssey Dawn (Libya, 2011). Harris’ staff assignments include aide to commander, US Naval Forces Japan; chief speechwriter for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and three tours on the Navy Staff. Harris was promoted to Admiral and assumed command of the US Pacific Fleet in October 2013. In May 2015, he assumed command of the US Pacific Command.

On 13 October, Jean-David Levitte spoke on the threat of Islamic State in the Middle East and Europe, the state of the European project after Brexit, and the rise of new powers in Asia.

On 16 August, the Lowy Institute hosted Washington Post columnist and 2016 Telstra Distinguished international Fellow David Ignatius for an address on the state of world order.