Dire straits: Strategic chokepoints in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait
What can Southeast Asia learn from the conflict in the Persian Gulf and should we be worried about the next maritime flashpoint closer to ho...
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179 years to parity: The Indo-Pacific’s gender equality backslide
Global progress on gender equality is stalling, and in some places going backwards. The World Economic Forum estimates that, at current rate...
Australia's Pacific diplomatic blitz and China's missile test
It's been the busiest fortnight in Australia–Pacific diplomacy in recent memory. In the space of ten days, Australia signed the Nakama...
The India paradox: Trusted more, but not understood
As India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Australia for the third time, new Lowy Institute polling reveals a curious paradox: Australia...
The trust deficit: Why Australians' attitudes towards America and China are shifting
Australians increasingly see China as an economic partner rather than a security threat — while still bracing for it as a long-term mi...
Southeast Asia in the crossfire: Can ASEAN hold the line?
Southeast Asia has always sat at the intersection of great power competition, but the pressures bearing down on the region today are testing...
Whose rules, whose order? Southeast Asia and China’s growing power
Southeast Asia's economic and geostrategic significance is on the rise, but China's expanding dominance and a more transactional United Stat...
Pressure test: Can ASEAN meet the Indo-Pacific's security challenges?
Great power competition, maritime expansionism, and disruptions to global supply chains are heightening geopolitical tensions in the Indo-Pa...
The nuclear arms race nobody is talking about
The New START Treaty has expired, China is quadrupling its nuclear arsenal, and the Trump administration has yet to prioritise arms control....
India and Australia: Shaping economic and regional security
India has never mattered more to Australia — as a strategic partner, a major trading economy, and a fellow Quad member. In this event,...
The West's systemic failure to learn from modern war
"On pretty much every measure, Putin is failing and he doesn't really have a lot of options moving forward." Russia is losing ground, its de...
Australia’s sports diplomacy playbook
Sport can be one of the great unifying forces in international affairs. But is Australia making the most of its opportunities off the field?...
A world with two Americas
The old international order is over, and a competition is underway to determine what comes next. In a discussion on his Lowy Institute Paper...
Myanmar at a crossroads: Five years after the coup
Myanmar has been in a state of violent upheaval since the military seized power in 2021, leading to a nationwide resistance and the collapse...
Thomas Wright: From the White House to world disorder
Thomas Wright, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former senior director at the National Security Council, joins Lowy Institute...
Trump-Xi summit: Has America abandoned strategic competition with China?
On the eve of the upcoming Trump-Xi summit, Donald Trump's approach to China looks less like strategic competition and more like a search fo...
Catching up and pulling ahead: Inside America’s 2025 China report
For years, the conventional wisdom held that the United States retained a decisive lead over China in the technologies and industries that w...
After the unravelling: Confronting the new world order
The post–Cold War international order hasn't collapsed from a single shock. It's been deliberately unwound. Thomas Wright, a former Se...
A multilateral green trade pact?
International trade has faced multiple shocks in recent years, making the need to reform the architecture of global trade more urgent than e...
The decline of the West: Samir Puri on “Westlessness” and the new global order
Samir Puri, former UK diplomat and author of Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing , joins Transnational Challenges Program Director Ly...