Review
From Brentford to the world: The Interpreter’s 2021 favourites
Our end-of-year series as the Lowy Institute staff offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs for 2021. Watch for more recommendations and reflections…
The Interpreter’s 2021 favourites: reconnecting with music and art
Our end-of-year series as the Lowy Institute staff offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs for 2021. Watch for more recommendations and reflections…
Regulate against the machine
Book review: We, the Robots? Regulating Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of the Law, by Simon Chesterman (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
From Tesla’s self-driving cars…
9/11: A President reacts on a day of fear and anger
Twenty years on, there are many different ways to remember 9/11.
Many rightly focus on the families of the victims, as Jennifer Senior does in her remarkable article in The…
Debating the alliance
Book review: Emma Shortis, Our Exceptional Friend: Australia’s Fatal Alliance with the United States (Hardie Grant, 2021)
Depending on your perspective, Australia’s China debate…
Why politics and pandemics don’t mix
Book review: Michael Lewis The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (W. W. Norton & Company, 2021)
Way back in October 2019, before most anyone had heard of Covid-19, a group…
China debate not just a matter of hawks and doves
Book Reviews
Peter Hartcher Red Zone: China’s Challenge and Australia’s Future (Black Inc., 2021)David Brophy China Panic: Australia’s Alternative to…
Defending the liberal international order
Book review: G. John Ikenberry A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order (Yale University Press, 2020)
Big ideas about how the world…
An unwelcome wake up call
Australia’s chief spy-catcher revealed in March that a “nest” of foreign agents had infiltrated the community – chasing secrets, cultivating local politicians, and monitoring …
Putting the pandemic in perspective
Book Review: Fareed Zakaria, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (Penguin, 2021)
Perhaps the most original contribution of Fareed Zakaria’s new book Ten Lessons for a …