Sam Roggeveen

Director, International Security Program
Sam Roggeveen
Biography
Publications

Sam Roggeveen is Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program. He is the author of The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace, published by La Trobe University Press in 2023.

Before joining the Lowy Institute, Sam was a senior strategic analyst in Australia’s peak intelligence agency, the Office of National Assessments, where his work dealt mainly with North Asian strategic affairs, including nuclear strategy and Asian military forces. Sam also worked on arms control policy in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs, and as an analyst in the Defence Intelligence Organisation.

Sam has a long-standing interest in politics and political philosophy, and in 2019 he wrote Our Very Own Brexit: Australia's Hollow Politics and Where it Could Lead Us, about the hollowing out of Western democracy and its implications for Australia. 

Sam writes for newspapers and magazines in Australia and around the world, and is a regular commentator on the Lowy Institute’s digital magazine, The Interpreter, of which he was the founding editor from 2007 to 2014.

Sam also serves as lead editor at the Lowy Institute, and editor of the Lowy Institute Papers.

Review: Hugh White's 'Without America'
Review: Hugh White's 'Without America'
Just when the foreign-policy orthodoxy seemed to be catching up with him, Hugh White has upended it again.
Foreign Policy White Paper: Turnbull addresses the China problem
Foreign Policy White Paper: Turnbull addresses the China problem
Turnbull's remarks were anything but bland and innocuous.
How accurate were Coral Bell's predictions?
How accurate were Coral Bell's predictions?
Bell makes some big calls in 'The End of the Vasco da Gama Era', and one wonders if she would declare them with such confidence today.
Quick comment: The same-sex marriage survey and Australia’s place in the world
Quick comment: The same-sex marriage survey and Australia’s place in the world
Of a turnout of 79.5% of eligible Australians, 61.6% said 'Yes' to the question of whether the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry.
Donald Trump's Asian tour
Commentary
Donald Trump's Asian tour
Asian leaders will be watching Trump for reassurance that the US will be a democratic ally in the Indo-Pacific. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review (Photo:…
Canberra conversations, with Gareth Evans
Canberra conversations, with Gareth Evans
Meeting Nelson Mandela, a conversation with the Queen, and an unsparing assessment of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Book now for the Interpreter Trivia Challenge!
Book now for the Interpreter Trivia Challenge!
Ladies and gentlemen, the Interpreter World Politics Trivia Challenge is on again.
'Choosing Openness' misdiagnoses the problem
'Choosing Openness' misdiagnoses the problem
The crisis Andrew Leigh detects in Australia is not societal, it is almost purely political.
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Next Monday is a public holiday in Australia, so posting will be light.
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