Asia
Chinese aid to Africa: A detective story
Philippa Brant is a Lowy Institute Research Associate.
Earlier this week a massive database of Chinese development finance activities in Africa (warning: big PDF) was…
Australia's water wisdom in the Asian century
Michael Harris is Chief Economist for the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Science (ABARES).
The Asian Century White Paper outlines a vision of…
Speeches
Senator the Hon. David Johnston: speech to the Lowy Institute
On 29 April 2013, Shadow Defence Minister Senator David Johnston gave a lecture to the Lowy Institute on the Coalition's defence policy in the lead-up to the release of the…
Reader riposte: America and the Syrian conflict
Ghassan Salem writes:
I've read and found very interesting Rodger Shanahan's comments in response to Anthony Bubalo's post about Obama's position regarding Syria's situation and…
Syria and the Obama Doctrine
My colleague Anthony Bubalo has taken President Obama to task for failing to put his political-diplomatic shoulder to the wheel in seeking a resolution to the Syria crisis. It is…
Syria: What happens when America can only afford to be ordinary
A lot has been written about President Obama's equivocal response to the almost equally equivocal evidence (so far) that Syria has used chemical weapons against its own people…
Thinking and rethinking China's rise
In the interests of keeping alive the near constant discussion on this site about the significance of China's rise, three disparate but related sources worth flagging:
If you…
India links: 2014 general election, urban-rural grey area, India's 'feeble' foreign policy and more
Danielle Rajendram is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's International Security Program whose work focuses on India and China-India relations.
The brutal rape of a…
Israel: New electoral law is a hope for peace
Jack Georgieff is the 2013 Thawley Research Scholar in International Security at the Lowy Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC.
This…
PNG in the international spotlight
Donald Gumbis is a Lecturer in political science at the University of Goroka and a Lowy Institute intern.
Papua New Guinea has found its way onto the international travel…