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Favourites of 2019: The Trauma Cleaner
Favourites of 2019: The Trauma Cleaner
As 2019 winds up, Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year. Sarah Krasnostein’s deeply affecting…
Favourites of 2019: The Twitterverse
Favourites of 2019: The Twitterverse
As 2019 winds up, Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year. Or in this instance... The best thing I…
Australia’s stance on Diego Garcia dispute is increasingly untenable
Australia’s stance on Diego Garcia dispute is increasingly untenable
The US base on the island of Diego Garcia, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, is among the most important US military facilities in the world, and is the foundation stone of the…
Favourites of 2019: Slow Horses on Spook Street
Favourites of 2019: Slow Horses on Spook Street
As 2019 winds up, Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films, or TV programs this year. And because I'm the editor, I'll …
How many Cold Wars does it take to make a “new” one?
How many Cold Wars does it take to make a “new” one?
The Cold War is not an easy term to define, which makes its increasing use as a term of reference for any great power conflict today problematic. When any “new” Cold War is…
Chart of the week: Data, data, everywhere
Chart of the week: Data, data, everywhere
Think about your habits on any given day. Check the weather on your phone in the morning? Data. Touch on a ticket to catch the bus or train? Data. Or drive a car through a toll…
Diego Garcia: The costs of defending an Indian Ocean outpost
Diego Garcia: The costs of defending an Indian Ocean outpost
On 22 November, the United Kingdom failed to comply with UN Resolution 73/295 passed in May, which demanded the UK “withdraw its colonial administration from the Chagos…
Renting influence: China in the Pacific
Renting influence: China in the Pacific
Reports of a planned Chinese naval base on a Pacific island nation’s territory in 2018 helped supercharge policy makers’ attention on China’s strategic intentions and rapidly…
Chart of the week: Where countries lie abroad
Chart of the week: Where countries lie abroad
How many – and where – diplomatic missions are established can be an important signal of priorities and challenges for a country’s foreign policy. For example, of the 61 countries…
China-US trade war: For all the bark, not much bite
China-US trade war: For all the bark, not much bite
It is now nearly 17 months since the Trump administration began collecting 25% tariffs on the first tranche of Chinese imports to the US – time enough to evaluate the economic…