Asia
More on 'Frank Gehry diplomacy'
Alan Davies, who writes Crikey's invaluable The Urbanist blog, has responded to my musings on Hillary Clinton's call for 'a new architecture for the world, more Frank Gehry than…
China at sea: Wake up, Australia!
For Australia, the principal threat posed by the growth of China's military power is not yet to its direct strategic interests but rather to the US-led order from which much of…
Documentary trailer: The Gatekeepers
Thanks to Markus for alerting me to this one. Looks good:
Sam Roggeveen
The Syrian deadlock (part 2)
Part 1 of this series, which focuses on the political aspect of the conflict, is here. Part 2 looks at the military dimension.
Civil wars are never clean wars (if there is such a…
China's navy: Urgent need for new mindset
Rear Admiral (Ret'd) James Goldrick AO CSC is a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute.
Despite the harsh language about China's maritime strategy and ambitions identified in Sam…
Blunt words on China from US Navy
In the context of yesterday's article in The Australian that China was being invited to America's biggest annual Pacific naval exercise, RIMPAC (which wasn't really…
Journal Articles
Staying the executioners' guns?
In a new piece for Inside Indonesia, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Dr Dave McRae outlines signs that Indonesia may move towards abolition of the death penalty, and examines how…
China's domestic focus creates dangers
In this short video I talk with East Asia Program Director Linda Jakobson about the conclusions of her new Analysis paper, launched today, China's Foreign Policy Dilemma.
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More photos from Lahore
Yesterday we posted some beautiful images and trenchant commentary from our regular Pakistan-based contributor, Alicia Mollaun, which I encourage you to check out if you haven't…
Movie trailer: From Up on Poppy Hill
Japan's highest grossing film of 2011, a coming of age story dealing with the aftermath of World War II and the rise of a new Japan, is being released with English dubbing.
Sam…