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International trade has faced multiple shocks in recent years, making the need to reform the architecture of global trade more urgent than e...

Samir Puri, former UK diplomat and author of Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing , joins Transnational Challenges Program Director Ly...

Australia's appetite for methamphetamine and cocaine is reshaping Pacific communities, turning island nations into key transit points on a g...

When Iran deterred shipping from the Strait of Hormuz following Operation Epic Fury, it sent shockwaves through global energy markets and ex...

Geopolitical strategist Parag Khanna joins the Lowy Institute's Sam Roggeveen to make sense of a world in flux. In a wide-ranging conversati...

British Cabinet Minister the Rt Hon Darren Jones MP joins the Lowy Institute's Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove AM for a wide-ranging...

Stephen Biegun, former US Deputy Secretary of State and Trump administration chief North Korea negotiator, joins the Lowy Institute's Intern...

Drone technology is now more accessible than ever. What was once the exclusive domain of state actors now falls within reach of nearly anyon...

In this Lowy Institute event held in Melbourne, former US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun offers his candid assessment of how the T...

What is the strategy driving Donald Trump's assertive use of American power? In the 2026 Owen Harries Lecture, former US Deputy Secretary of...

Australia's cultural and strategic ties lie in the Western world and its economic links are overwhelmingly in North Asia. So what is Southea...

Lowy Institute Lead Economist Roland Rajah and Nonresident Fellow Jenny Gordon discuss the economic implications of the expanding conflict i...

To mark International Women's Day, Lowy Institute fellows Susannah Patton and Serena Sasingian speak with Lydia Khalil in a wide-ranging dis...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited the Lowy Institute in Sydney for a special event on Wednesday 4 March 2026. Speaking at a moment...

What went wrong with America's China strategy — and can it be fixed? In this Lowy Institute event, former US Assistant Secretary of De...

After barely a month, the year 2026 is already setting a bewildering geo-political pace. A presidential snatch-and-grab raid in Venezuela, a...

It has been just over a year since the Trump administration's dramatic cuts to America's foreign aid budget and the shuttering of USAID. Wit...

On 3 December, the Institute welcomed Senator Tim Ayres, Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Science, to Bligh Street to l...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank and impassioned speech at this year's World Economic Forum at Davos. He argued that in...

Troy Bramston is a senior writer at The Australian and author of the new biography Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the New — the first com...

Professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a globally recognised expert on violent extremism and prevention, based at American University in Washing...

As part of the Lowy Institute Recast series, we are republishing the best podcasts of 2025. In case you missed them the first time around or...

As part of the Lowy Institute Recast series, we are republishing the best podcasts of 2025. In case you missed them the first time around or...

As part of the Lowy Institute Recast series, we are republishing the best podcasts of 2025. In case you missed them the first time around or...

As part of the Lowy Institute Recast series, we are republishing the best podcasts of 2025. In case you missed them the first time around or...

As part of the Lowy Institute Recast series, we are republishing the best podcasts of 2025. In case you missed them the first time around or...

As part of the Lowy Institute Recast series, we are republishing the best podcasts of 2025. In case you missed them the first time around or...

As part of the Lowy Institute Recast series, we are republishing the best podcasts of 2025. In case you missed them the first time around or...

The Lowy Institute launched the 2025 edition of the Asia Power Index on 9 December in Melbourne. Lydia Khalil convened this conversation wit...

Foreign policy is dominated by nation states and international organisations. Yet municipalities are rarely thought of as having a seat at t...

Since Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the world has come to better recognise the geopolitical importance of the Baltic states....

Is there an Australian way of diplomacy? How can Australia navigate an increasingly complicated and dangerous world? The Lowy Institute's Re...

This month, the world gathered in the Amazonian city of Belém for COP30, the UN's annual climate summit. It was the first time in 30...

Dr Michael Fullilove AM, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, gave a speech to the Institute titled "Present at the Destruction" on Tue...

The United Nations is facing two simultaneous disruptions: the planned UN80 reforms, timed to refine the organisation's structure and mandat...

The Pacific Islands face converging transnational and geopolitical threats, yet existing intelligence exchanges are fragmented and inadequat...

What exactly is the nature of the deal struck between the US and Australian governments on critical minerals? How is it different to the agr...

The Director-General of Security Mike Burgess delivered the 2025 Lowy Lecture before a packed Sydney Town Hall on Tuesday 4 November 2025. I...

During his visit to the UN in September, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese re-declared Australia's bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Secu...

Understanding Xi Jinping and what drives him has become a global cottage industry. According to US China scholar Joseph Torigian, one of the...

The long-awaited meeting between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally happened. Lowy Institute Executiv...

In this interview, the Lowy Institute's Sam Roggeveen speaks with one of Asia's most respected and trenchant observers of modern geopolitics...

Until his retirement from government this year, Nick Rasmussen has worked in counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism under succes...

Join Sam Roggeveen and Interpreter Managing Editor Daniel Flitton for a conversation about what we covered this month in Australia's best fo...

Two of Washington, DC's most respected journalists, Susan Glasser and Peter Baker , join the Lowy Institute's Executive Director, Dr Michael...

Washington's foreign policy establishment is still reluctant to internalise the fact that the United States has entered a multipolar era, sa...

Southeast Asia is one of the most geopolitically diverse and contested regions of the world. But does China or the United States have more i...

We're in a global democratic recession. Not only is the number of democratic nations in decline, but so are democratic institutions and norm...

Under new leadership, Indonesia continues to face a persistent and complex challenge: governance. As the country strives to maintain politic...

Bougainville has set 2027 as the deadline to declare independence from Papua New Guinea. But the economic and institutional foundations of s...