Global survey ranks Lowy Institute as Australia’s top think tank
The leading index of world think tanks today ranked the Lowy Institute as Australia’s top think tank and fifth in Asia.
The 2011 Global Go To Think Tanks Ratings, produced by the University of Pennsylvania’s International Relations program, also ranked the Lowy Institute thirtieth among non-US think tanks globally.
The full report can be found here.
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Bipolar policy on Indonesia harms our ties In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Wesley writes that Canberra's stable relationship with Jakarta is more luck than design.
The Australian, 25 January 2012, p. 9
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| Linda Jakobson opinion piece |
Cross-currents In an opinion piece in The South China Morning Post, Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia, argues that tensions may have eased across the Taiwan Strait in the first term of the island’s president Ma Ying-jeou, but that doesn’t mean the issues in the way...
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Power and choice: Asian security futures The situation in North Korea emphasises the fragility of Asia’s security order and the strains the region’s changing power distribution are placing on it. A major 2010 Lowy Institute Asia Security Project report, 'Power and Choice: Asian Security Futures',...
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Lowy Lecture Series - Dr Khalid Koser presentation
At the Lowy Lecture on 14 December 2011, Dr Khalid Koser reviewed and assessed the Australian government's efforts to reduce unauthorised boat arrivals over the last year. He provided a roadmap to more effective policy over the next year, drawing on lessons learned from European experiences of reducing flows of asylum seekers and irregular migrants.
His presentation can be heard here:
How to stop the boats - MP3 (20MB)
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Australia's nuclear choices
As the recent debate over uranium exports to India indicates, uranium exports remain a highly contentious domestic and foreign policy issue for Australians. In a recent publication 'Australia’s Uranium Trade: The Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges of a Contentious Export', Lowy Institute nuclear experts Rory Medcalf, Martine Letts and Fiona Cunningham have contributed chapters analysing the drivers of Australian policy and some of the key future challenges for Australian policymakers.
Rory Medcalf examines the drivers of Australian uranium export policy with regard to Russia, China and India in his chapter 'Powering major powers'. Martine Letts and Fiona Cunningham argue the case for more active nuclear industry engagement with the non-proliferation regime in a chapter drawing on original survey data collected under the auspices of the International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament.
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The Pacific Islands in the Asian Century
US President Obama’s speech to the Australian Parliament on 17 November set a new tone in US-Australia relations. The US has signalled it intends to place a greater emphasis on relations with both Asia and the Pacific - '…the United States is turning our attention to the vast potential of the Asia Pacific region'.
The Pacific Islands region now finds itself in the middle of a re-engaged United States and rising Asia. As it attracts greater attention from both Asia and the US the region is well placed to take advantage of this increasing interest and associated economic and development opportunities.
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Obama in Australia: balancing not containment
In this article for the website China-US Focus, the Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf takes a sceptical look at claims that President Obama’s visit to Australia was part of a strategy to 'contain' China’s rise. Click here to access the full article.
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Heritage Foundation panel discuss Lowy Institute report
On 1 December 2011, panelists at the Heritage Foundation discussed the recently released report by scholars from the Heritage Foundation, the Lowy Institute, and Indian think tank Observer Research Foundation titled, 'Shared Goals, Converging Interests: A Plan for U.S.-Australia-India Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific'.
The report recommends instituting a trilateral dialogue and closer cooperation among the three democratic powers to promote maritime security, nonproliferation, counterterrorism and other important regional goals with any an eye to encouraging a more stable and predictable order in the Asia-Pacific region. The panelists discussed what this major development means for Australia-India relations and the broader concept of a trilateral dialogue with the U.S. View the panel here.
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NSW and India: People and partnerships
 In an address to the Lowy Institute on 9 December 2011, the Premier of New South Wales, Mr Barry O'Farrell, set out his vision for building strong economic and societal links between Australia's largest state and the government, people and business community of a rising India.
His address can be heard here:
NSW and India: People and partnerships - MP3 (18MB)
This is a transcript of the Premier's speech.
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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 the challenges ahead for the Obama nuclear agenda. This event, moderated by the Lowy Institute's Rory Medcalf, was supported by the Lowy Institute's partnership with the Nuclear Security Project of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
A podcast of the lecture can be heard here:
A nuclear weapon-free world? Prospects for Obama's nuclear agenda - MP3 (21MB)
The PowerPoint presentation can be downloaded here:
A nuclear weapon-free world? Prospects for Obama's nuclear agenda - PPTX (14MB)
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Western approaches: responses to China from the Middle East and Central Asia
 As part of a major new project exploring how three key states in the Middle East and Central Asia - Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan and Iran - approach their relations with China, the West Asia program is releasing a short video previewing some of the project's research issues and themes.
The nine-minute video, which can also be viewed by chapter, recounts a recent research trip to Kazakhstan and China by project authors Anthony Bubalo and Konrad Muller. The first two papers in the project on Saudi relations with China and Kazakh relations with China will be published in 2012.
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Two Afghan views of Australia from Uruzgan
In a new paper in the Lowy Institute’s Afghan Voices series, we provide two very different perspectives on Australia’s military and development efforts in Uruzgan.
The first comes in the form of excerpts from an uncompleted draft on the subject by Omaid Khpalwak, an Afghan journalist tragically killed in July of this year. The second is an interview with Mohammed Shirzad, Governor of Uruzgan province.
Despite their differing viewpoints, both inject important Afghan perspectives into the discussion of Australia’s military and civilian commitment in Afghanistan.
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Foreign policy opinion polling: a case study from Fiji
On 7 December 2011, Caz Tebbutt, Managing Director of Tebbutt Research, which conducted the Lowy Institute's poll in Fiji, delivered the Lowy Lecture on opinion polling in Fiji.
Her presentation can be heard here:
Foreign policy opinion polling: a case study from Fiji - MP3 (23MB)
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Asia's rise, the West's fall?
 The 2011 Lowy Lecture was delivered by Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, who visited Australia as a guest of the Institute. In his lecture, 'Asia's Rise, the West's Fall?' delivered on 17 November, Barber examined the implications of Asia's rise for the world and offered some prescriptions for accommodating the rising Asian powers in a new economic order for the 21st century. In very lively Q+A which followed Barber responded to audience questions.
The lecture and Q&A can be heard here:
The 2011 Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World: Asia's Rise, the West's Fall? - MP3 (27MB)
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