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Favourites of 2020: A lockdown loaf
Favourites of 2020: A lockdown loaf
An end-of-year series as the Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year. Look back on the series and…
Where America finds itself
Where America finds itself
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily,” said the 17th-century French aphorist François de La Rochefoucauld. He might have added, had it existed at the time, the…
Favourites of 2020: Minister of Finance Incorporated
Favourites of 2020: Minister of Finance Incorporated
An end-of-year series as the Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year. Watch for more…
Favourites of 2020: The politics of Tiger King
Favourites of 2020: The politics of Tiger King
An end-of-year series as the Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year. Watch for more…
Women, peace and security are not only wartime issues
Women, peace and security are not only wartime issues
Many women fight wars every single day within their homes. This is not the violence of wars that features on the nightly news, but something far more insidious – a hidden conflict…
Artefacts paving France’s return to Africa
Artefacts paving France’s return to Africa
In November, the French Senate unanimously voted to return a small selection of pre-colonial African artefacts to Benin and Senegal that were looted by colonial forces. Benin will…
Favourites of 2020: Memes
Favourites of 2020: Memes
We debated whether “favourites” was really the right word for 2020. But given it’s been a tumultuous year, we figured a little consistency wouldn’t hurt for our end-of-year…
Russia’s red star in the Red Sea
Russia’s red star in the Red Sea
While the world’s attention in recent weeks has been firmly fixed on the United States’ presidential race, Russia under Vladimir Putin has made a number of surprising moves. One…
The G20’s existential crisis
The G20’s existential crisis
2020 could be defined as a year of global crises – health, political, environmental and economic. The G20 is caught among all four, and how the forum responds raises questions…
Jihadist attacks in Nice: The Tunisian connection
Jihadist attacks in Nice: The Tunisian connection
In the last five years, the French city of Nice has been targeted twice by jihadist terrorism. Both times the perpetrators were young men from Tunisia, the smallest country in…