For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic subsided, North Korea has sent a delegation led by Kim Song-nam, director of the international department of the Workers’ Party of Korea, to Southeast ...

As the prospect of a US-China military conflict hangs over the Asia-Pacific region, some analysts call for the American military to pull back. These include Jennifer Kavanagh, who advocated this ...

Sir Frank Lowy AC founded the Lowy Institute in 2003 and has served as its Chairman since then. He co-founded global shopping centre company Westfield in 1960 and served as its Executive Chairman for ...

In the sunlit uplands of Australia’s strategic imagination, Canberra and Jakarta work together in pursuit of shared security goals, giving Canberra greater knowledge of and ability to influence ...

Warren Mundine is an Australian Aboriginal leader and the former National President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He quit the Labor Party in 2012 and was appointed to the position of chairman ...

Mihai Sora is Program Director of the Pacific Islands Program at the Lowy Institute. The Program has a policy research focus on contemporary challenges facing the Pacific Islands region, including ...

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. The Lowy Institute was born of Sir Frank Lowy’s desire to commemorate the 50 th anniversary of his arrival in Australia by giving something back to the country that had ...

Sam Roggeveen is Program Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program. He is the author of The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace, published by La Trobe ...

Time is running out for the Australian government’s bid to host the global climate change negotiations COP31 in partnership with the Pacific in November 2026. The government has pushed to host the ...

The official inauguration of Timor-Leste’s membership in ASEAN has been the main topic in Dili this week and a highlight of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This is a moment of great joy ...

The study of how Ukrainian forces have adapted, learned, and transformed their training regimes is a vital but under-examined element of this war, and war more generally. Ukraine’s military training ...

Australia’s own domestic politics, once a geopolitical punchline, is a growing soft power tool in its diplomatic kitbag and a complementary door opener for new relationships. Building off a series of ...