Issues

  • Candles for peace: Indian students protest outside Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station

    India-Australia Poll 2013

    The India-Australia Poll is a groundbreaking survey of Indian public attitudes towards Australia, with some surprising results. It reveals broadly positive views towards Australia, but lingering...

  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Rarotonga

    Big enough for all of us: geo-strategic competition in the Pacific Islands

    China's growing engagement in the Pacific Islands has fueled talk of great-power competition in the region.  But viewing China's activities in the region in geo-strategic terms is inappropriate...

  • India Poll 2013

    The India Poll 2013 is one of the most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on the attitudes of Indian citizens towards their future in the world.

    Key issues covered in the poll include:...

Publications

  • Friday funny: For foreign policy nerds

    The 5 Best Tumblrs for Foreign Policy Nerds , reads the title of a recent FP.com post that might have been written with Interpreter readers in mind. Personally, when I first saw the post I felt a bit derelict in my duty to you, dear readers. How could I have missed International Relations as...
    24 May 2013
    By
    Sam Roggeveen

  • An end to the war on terrorism?

    Watch video On the face of it, President Obama's speech calling for an end to the 'perpetual' war on terrorism could not have been timed much worse. Obama's political opponents could easily accuse him of retreating in the fight against terrorism just as terrorists make another brutal statement of...
    24 May 2013
    By
    Sam Roggeveen

  • Reader riposte: More on pro-US media bias

    Sinclaire Prowse, a Lowy Institute intern and post-graduate student with the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, writes: There is definitely an uneven distortion towards the US in Australian international news coverage, but it is interesting to note that this isn't an issue in Australia...
    24 May 2013
    By
    Guest blogger

  • India links: Gandhi's blood, India poll 2013, Li Keqiang in New Delhi, and more

    Danielle Rajendram is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's International Security Program whose work focuses on India and China-India relations. In case you missed it, the Lowy Institute in partnership with the Australia India Institute released the India Poll 2013 on Indian attitudes to...
    24 May 2013
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    Guest blogger

  • Martin Wolf's climate change column

    Further to the thread I started on Monday about Martin Wolf's pessimistic column , I've had an email from economist John Quiggin which goes directly to the source of Wolf's (and my) pessimism. For Wolf, the problem is that the case for acting against climate change is always based around privation...
    24 May 2013
    By
    Sam Roggeveen

  • Reader riposte: Australia's consular obligations

    Andrew Farran writes: A comment on the item Australia's Consular Conundrum in Dubai , in particular the concluding observation: 'There is no doubt that the Australian Government, and its diplomats, will do their best to assist Mr Joyce and his family. But there is a doubt that their efforts will be...
    23 May 2013
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    Guest blogger

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