Asia
Kurt Campbell's 2013 Owen Harries Lecture
Last Thursday's inaugural Owen Harries Lecture by former US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell will live long in the memory of the packed audience at the Lowy Institute,…
China's ideological deficit
This is the third part of my interview with Damien Ma and William Adams, co-authors of In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity will Define China's Ascent in the Next Decade…
China-Taiwan diplomatic rivalry gives way to new maturity
Philippa Brant is a Lowy Institute Research Associate.
Gambia recently announced it had terminated diplomatic ties with Taiwan after eighteen years. This marks the first…
Time for Iran to reach out to Israel
Christopher Johnston is a fellow at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon.
Officials are hailing an…
Israel's opposition to a nuclear deal with Iran doesn't make sense
Dina Esfandiary is an Iran specialist and a Research Associate in the Non-proliferation and Disarmament program at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Israel is the…
*SBY*, the tweeting president
The second round of the Australia-Indonesia spying stoush has now rolled on for a week, and attention is turning to the longer term implications for the relationship. As I've…
India links: Tendulkar, Delhi Police, security cooperation with Australia and more
Danielle Rajendram is a Lowy Institute research associate. Her work focuses on Indian foreign and domestic policy, India-China relations and Asian security.
McKinsey has just…
Why Indonesia is angry, and what to do about it
Greta Nabbs-Keller is a Brisbane-based consultant who has recently submitted a PhD examining the impact of democratisation on Indonesia's foreign policy.
To construe Indonesia's…
The boats and the dreams of those aboard
Remember those two journalists found on-board an asylum-seeker boat off Christmas Island in September?
If you want to know what they were doing there and what they saw and heard,…
Commentary
Abbott's failure to listen escalates spying row
In an opinion piece in The Drum, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Dr Dave McRae says that Tony Abbott's failure to proactively defuse the spying row with Indonesia has…