Review
![Boris Johnson: Does distance really lend enchantment to the view?](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-09/Boris%20Johnson%20comp.jpg?itok=5N56nNfA)
Boris Johnson: Does distance really lend enchantment to the view?
Book review: Johnson at 10: The Inside Story, by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell (Atlantic, 2023)
Are we better off waiting for tardy but considered analyses of our political…
![A compelling voice for rethinking Australia’s national security](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-08/20230322adf8659002_0067.jpg?itok=oratp61V)
A compelling voice for rethinking Australia’s national security
Sam Roggeveen’s basic storyline in The Echidna Strategy – that the China threat is grossly exaggerated, and that Australia should not, and need not, rely on America for our…
![Learning Cold War lessons of espionage anew](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-08/GettyImages-936335858.jpg?itok=baFJqE_6)
Learning Cold War lessons of espionage anew
Book review: Calder Walton, Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West (Hachette, 2023)
It’s still not known how close the world came to nuclear war in November…
![Fake news, propaganda, and the withering of commitment to truth](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-08/Stalin%20bust%20Comp.jpg?itok=K1hWIb2H)
Fake news, propaganda, and the withering of commitment to truth
Book review: Alan Philps, The Red Hotel (Headline, 2023)
In war, truth is supposed always to be the first casualty. We owe that insight to an isolationist American Senator,…
![Far from the limelight, forgotten Afghans continue the fight](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-07/Afghan%20women%20collect%20aid%20comp.jpg?itok=2nH1jn24)
Far from the limelight, forgotten Afghans continue the fight
Book review: August in Kabul: America’s last days in Afghanistan, by Andrew Quilty (Melbourne University Press, 2022)
Six months after the Taliban toppled the Ghani-led Afghan…
![Nobody ever teaches anyone how to be a Minister](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-07/Penny%20Wong%20at%20ASEAN%20comp.jpg?itok=GTTOCio4)
Nobody ever teaches anyone how to be a Minister
Book review: Penny Wong: Passion and Principle, by Margaret Simons (Black Inc. Updated edition 2023)
Contemporary political biography is the art of working out how our leaders…
![For Indonesia’s haunting past, Jokowi’s resolution is non-judicial](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-07/GettyImages-515497982.jpg?itok=0dvZz5c2)
For Indonesia’s haunting past, Jokowi’s resolution is non-judicial
The civilian witness held a pressurised kerosene lamp. He stood just a step back from the edge of the mass grave, two meters deep. Thirty-one men, purported members and companions…
![China’s answer to Top Gun is a flat spin](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-06/Born%20to%20Fly%20movie%20poster%20comp.jpg?itok=KDw8BBea)
China’s answer to Top Gun is a flat spin
In the battle for cultural supremacy, the Chinese film industry has released their counterpoint to the American blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick. The May 2023 release of Born to Fly,…
![Low Earth orbit: The next frontier](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-06/Space%20junk%20comp.jpg?itok=fnNw3C2K)
Low Earth orbit: The next frontier
Book review: The Future of Geography by Tim Marshall (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.
~ Konstantin…
![India’s underperforming ties to Vietnam](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-05/GettyImages-1199943495.jpg?itok=OH8BSfZi)
India’s underperforming ties to Vietnam
Book Review: India-Vietnam Relations: Development Dynamics and Strategic Alignment, by Reena Marwah and Le Thi Hang Nga (Springer Nature, 2021)
In Vietnamese culture dissent…