The shifting geopolitics of aviation
On Thursday 11 August 2011, James Hogan, CEO of Etihad Airways, delivered the Lowy Institute for International Policy’s inaugural Australia-Gulf Lecture. He spoke on 'The...
2010 Australia-UAE Dialogue
The opening of the Dialogue was attended by His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Hon Stephen Smith, Australian Minister for For...
'The end of the free market?' - Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Mark Thirlwell presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 29 October, Mark Thirlwell, Director of the Institute's International Economy program, looked at the resumed battle for the Commanding Heights...
Food for Thought - 'Our post-GFC world' - Mark Thirlwell presentation
On 29 July in Canberra, in the latest in our Food for Thought series, Mark Thirlwell, Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Economy program, looked at our post-GFC w...
'The world economy at 20' - Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Mark Thirlwell presentation
Next month will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This also makes it the 20th anniversary of the birth of the new global economy. At the Wednesday Lunch on ...
'The return of geo-economics' - Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Mark Thirlwell presentation
At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 23 June, Mark Thirlwell, Director of the Institute’s International Economy program, discussed the entanglement of international economics, geop...
Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Accelerating the Millennium Development Goals
The Lowy Institute hosted a conference titled Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Accelerating the Millennium Development Goals in Sydney from ...
The Pacific Islands and the World Conference - Brisbane 2009
The Lowy Institute's conference, The Pacific Islands and the World: The Global Economic Crisis, held in Brisbane on 2 and 3 August, created an opportunity for Pacific Island le...
A nuclear weapon-free world? Prospects for Obama's nuclear agenda
In this lecture under the Lowy Institute's Canberra Food for Thought series, leading nuclear expert Professor Scott Sagan of Stanford University weighs up the achievements and ...
Crisis and confidence: major powers and maritime security
Asia's security tensions at sea are back on top of the global strategic agenda with the July 2011 visit to China by US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mulle...