PROGRAMS & PROJECTS
Programs
![The North Asia Program](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/north-asia-program-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=dK_HFkw-)
The politics and foreign policies of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and the Korean peninsula
The China and East Asia Program
![The Indo-Pacific Development Centre logo](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2023-07/IPDC-logo-dark.png?h=c673cd1c&itok=OozSR3e6)
Cutting-edge Australian, regional, and global thinking on the future of Indo-Pacific development
The Indo-Pacific Development Centre
![The International Economics Program](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/international-economics-program-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=s7MopJvs)
Explaining the international economy
The International Economics Program
![The International Security Program](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/international-security-program-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=rtZJuZxG)
Global strategy and security, with an emphasis on Australia and Asia
The International Security Program
![The Pacific Islands Program](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/pacific-islands-program-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=_cAOaQE7)
Contemporary challenges facing the Pacific islands region
The Pacific Islands Program
![The Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/public-opinion-foreign-policy-program-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=fBnQulqp)
Australian public opinion on foreign policy since 2005
The Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program
![The Southeast Asia Program](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/southeast-asia-program-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=FriJCka7)
Explaining developments from a vital region
The Southeast Asia Program
![Digital Threats to Democracy](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-08/digital-threats-democracy-3-1920x1080_0.png?h=d1cb525d&itok=gfeyFNmL)
Issues that cut across both international relations and national security domains.
Transnational Challenges Program
Projects
![The Power and Diplomacy Program](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/power-and-diplomacy-program-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=MS2Vl6xx)
Ranking 25 countries across eight measures of state power
Asia Power Index
![The Aus-PNG Network](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/aus-png-network-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=hM6s49Q-)
Building stronger people-to-people and business ties between Australia and Papua New Guinea
The Aus-PNG Network
![Digital Threats to Democracy](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-08/digital-threats-democracy-3-1920x1080_0.png?h=d1cb525d&itok=gfeyFNmL)
Online disinformation, online hate and extremism, tech-enabled foreign interference and regulation of the digital sphere.
Digital Threats to Democracy
![Distinguished International Fellowship](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/distinguished-international-fellowship-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=xdVL-1F2)
Bringing intellectual and policy leaders to Australia to deepen debate
Distinguished International Fellowship
![Lowy Institute Global Diplomacy Index](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/global-diplomacy-index-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=ze0vxFN_)
A comprehensive comparison of the world’s most significant diplomatic networks
Lowy Institute Global Diplomacy Index
![Lowy Institute Poll Interactive](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/lowy-institute-poll-interactive-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=TBMVBSbO)
Explore Australian attitudes to the world since 2005
Lowy Institute Poll Interactive
![Mapping Foreign Assistance in the Pacific](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/mapping-foreign-assistance-pacific-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=1IRrFn7g)
Displays data on foreign assistance to the Pacific Islands region
The Pacific Aid Map
![Michael and Deborah Thawley Scholarship in International Security](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/michael-deborah-thawley-scholarship-international-security-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=R8e-rxtr)
An opportunity for an Australian to play a part in the work of two leading think tanks
Michael and Deborah Thawley Scholarship in International Security
![Pacific Research Program](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/programs_and_projects/public/2022-06/pacific-research-program-1920x1080_1.gif?h=d1cb525d&itok=dXAiT-dE)
A Lowy-ANU centre of excellence for research on the Pacific
Pacific Research Program