Power Rangers
Data reveals a major power balance shift in the Asia-Pacific, writes Lowy Institute research fellow Bonnie Bley
By Bonnie Bley
Wednesday 12 Dec 2018 | 02:15 | SYDNEY
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National Interests and the Role of Major and Middle Powers in the South China Sea: Australia’s Cautiously Calibrated Approach
In this National Asian Security Studies Program Issue Brief (published by UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy), Euan Graham examines Australia's approach to the South China Sea dispute
By Euan Graham
Travelling responsibly but further to go: Australia's new consular diplomacy
Three years after the policy brief Consular Conundrum was published, Australia's consular policy has evolved in a number of ways in an attempt to meet the challenges for modern consular assistance
By Alex Oliver
Australia’s 2016 Defence White Paper – Forward funded defence
In a commentary for PacNet, Euan Graham discusses Australia's latest Defence White Paper. For more from PacNet, click here
By Euan Graham
Joko Widodo's Indonesia: Control and reform
In this paper for The Economist Intelligence Unit's Hopes and doubts: Perspectives on the long road to Indonesia' economic development, Aaron L Connelly examines Indonesian President Joko Widodo's struggles to assert control over his administration and to embrace reformist economic
Who Will Rule Myanmar?
Originally published in Foreign Affairs. Photo: Getty Images/Anadolu Agency
Maritime security and threats to energy transportation in Southeast Asia
Maritime security and threats to energy transportation in Southeast Asia
Euan Graham
The RUSI Journal
Volume 160, Issue 2, 2015, pp 20-31
By Euan Graham
Divining the fluid element: from cooperation to conflict in Japan-China maritime relations
"Divining the fluid element: from cooperation to conflict in Japan-China maritime relations" first appeared in Security Challenges, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2015), pp 51-73.
Posted here with the kind permission of the publisher, The Kokoda Foundation. http://www.kokodafoundation.org/
By Euan Graham
Sovereignty and the Sea: President Joko Widodo's Foreign Policy Challenges
In this paper for Contemporary Southeast Asia, Aaron L. Connelly argues that under President Joko Widodo, Indonesia's foreign policy is likely to become less clear, less conciliatory and less cooperative, with negative consequences for Indonesian leadership in the region
Malcolm Fraser's Asia Delusion
Malcolm Fraser's Asia Delusion
Rory Medcalf
Australian Journal of International Affairs
20 October 2014
By Rory Medcalf
In defence of the Indo-Pacific: Australia's new strategic map
In this article for the Australian Journal of International Affairs, the Lowy Institutes International Security program director Rory Medcalf argues that Indo-Pacific Asia is a suitable regional concept for Australia's strategic needs. Indo-Pacific Asia can best be understood as an expansive
By Rory Medcalf
Indonesian politics in 2013: the emergence of new leadership?
In a new article in the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies journal, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Dr Dave McRae surveys Indonesian politics in 2013, focusing on the impact of the rise of Joko Widodo (Jokowi) from small-town mayor to presidential frontrunner. The article examine's whether
By Dave McRae
The Indian Ocean region: Security, stability and sustainability in the 21st century. Report of the Australia India Institute Task Force on Indian Ocean Security
International Security Program Director Rory Medcalf reviews the report of the Australia India Institute Taskforce on Indian Ocean Security, The Indian Ocean region: Security, stability and sustainability in the 21st century
By Rory Medcalf
Fifty Shades of Grey: Officer Culture in the Australian Army
James Brown, Fifty Shades of Grey: Officer Culture in the Australian Army. Australian Army Journal, Culture edition 2013 10 (3) 2013, pp 244-254.
ABSTRACT
As the Australian Army begins a transition from a decade abroad it is timely to ask what we know about its officer culture, how
By James Brown
Lebanon: the Chimera of a Shi’a ‘third way’
Lowy Institute Nonresident Fellow Rodger Shanahann recently published an article in the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, Spring 2013, which looks at the implications of the Arab uprisings and the civil war in Syria for the Shi'a of Lebanon
Chinese aid in the South Pacific: linked to resources?
Lowy Institute Research Associate Dr Philippa Brant has published an article in the journal Asian Studies Review, Volume 37 (2) 2013, on the implications of China's emergence as a global development actor
An Asian security standoff
Lowy Institute Non-resident Senior Fellow Alan Dupont has published an article in the May-June 2012 issue of The National Interest on how the dissolution of the Old Order in East Asia has created a delicate power balance there.
The full text of the article is available here
By Alan Dupont
Australia's national security priorities: addressing strategic risk in a globalised world
Alan Dupont, Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute, has co-authored an article with William J. Rechmeyer in the Australian Journal of International Affairs, Volume 66 No. 1 (2012), pp 34-51, on the seminal influences on Australian national security planning. The authors outline a
By Alan Dupont
Staying the executioners' guns?
In a new piece for Inside Indonesia, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Dr Dave McRae outlines signs that Indonesia may move towards abolition of the death penalty, and examines how Indonesia is reconciling its foreign and domestic policy on capital punishment.
Read the full text of Staying the
By Dave McRae