Issues

  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Rarotonga

    Big enough for all of us: geo-strategic competition in the Pacific Islands

    China's growing engagement in the Pacific Islands has fueled talk of great-power competition in the region.  But viewing China's activities in the region in geo-strategic terms is inappropriate...

  • India Poll 2013

    The India Poll 2013 is one of the most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on the attitudes of Indian citizens towards their future in the world.

    Key issues covered in the poll include:...

  • Stricken container ship Rena

    Saving multilateralism: the G20, the WTO, and world trade

    The multilateral trading system, an important contributor to global peace and prosperity, is in trouble.  In a new Lowy Institute Analysis for the G20 Studies Centre, Mark Thirlwell argues that...

Publications

  • Thursday links: G-Zero world, Vietnam's media, AirSea Battle, TPP and more

    New Stateman cover story from Ian Bremmer : 'There are three big unfolding geopolitical stories: China’s rise, Middle East turmoil and the redesign of Europe. The three countries with most to lose from these trends are Britain, Japan and Israel. This is not a G7, G8 or a G20 world. This is the era...
    13 June 2013
    By
    Sam Roggeveen

  • Nelson Mandela and South Africa: An extraordinary journey

    Jonathan Pain is author of The Pain Report and has 29 years of international investment experience. He was born in South Africa and lived in Lesotho, Swaziland, England, Bahrain and now Australia. My first memory of racism was as a young boy in a shop in South Africa. A very elderly African man,...
    13 June 2013
    By
    Guest blogger

  • Reader riposte: NSA spying

    Kirill Reztsov responds to my post arguing that those against government snooping of our online activity have only themselves to blame: Until Edward Snowden leaked the information about NSA's activities the public had no idea about the program because it was secret.They could not have assented to...
    13 June 2013
    By
    Sam Roggeveen
  • Commentary

    New Zealand-U.S. defense relations: A possible return to the alliance?

    In this article on The Diplomat's Flashpoints blog, Lowy Institute Thawley Scholar Jack Georgieff looks at what it might take for a return to ally status between the United States and New Zealand, arguing that it should not be taken off the table in the years ahead.
    13 June 2013
    Commentary
    By
    Jack Georgieff

  • Global economy: Experimental fallout

    The global economy is in the midst of an unprecedented macroeconomic policy experiment based on unconventional monetary policy marked by a combination of high public debt, near-zero interest rates and aggressive quantitative easing . As a recent IMF policy assessment pointed out , the initial...
    12 June 2013
    By
    Mark Thirlwell

  • Wednesday links: China threat, East China Sea, How Asia Works and more

    Former Japanese Defence minister Satoshi Morimoto : 'Japan, and most ASEAN countries, face a very serious Chinese military threat.' A satirical article that reports on the US in the language US journalists use to cover foreign countries. Retired Japanese Lt Gen Noboru Yamaguchi is in Sydney to...
    12 June 2013
    By
    Sam Roggeveen

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