Knowing a true number of residents is crucial to set development goals – for local government and foreign partners. Regardless of the questions raised about the UN study, the controversy showed the ...

With fewer Chinese finances available and less demand from Pacific countries, geopolitical competition is opening up. On the aid front, it might be less than most assume. The Lowy Institute Pacific ...

Indonesia is becoming a wealthy nation, but still has an enormous number of very poor people, who are not doing well. This is why Indonesia now likes to see itself as an emerging aid donor rather than ...

Of all the countries on the sidelines of the Hanoi summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un, few were watching more intently than China. Chinese financial and trade support effectively facilitated ...

The Tuesday firing (or resignation) of president Donald Trump’s third national security advisor, John Bolton, was hardly a surprise. The rift between the two men had been the subject of news pieces ...

Switching for a while from fiction to fact, Amitav Ghosh has written an account of “perhaps the oldest and most powerful medicine known to man”, an “opportunistic pathogen” named opium. Opium, its ...

Australian universities are vulnerable as open and collaborative institutions. With more sensitive research underway, they are also part of the solution. Did you know the Counter Foreign Interference ...

Mick Ryan is a Senior Fellow for Military Studies in the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program. Mick spent 35 years in the Australian Army and had the honour of commanding soldiers at ...

Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob was a Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. His research interests include Southeast Asia’s defence and security issues and the region’s relations ...

Shyam Saran is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Chairman of India’s National Security Advisory Board. In 2015 he was the Telstra Distinguished International Fellow at the Lowy ...

Major General McNarn was the Director of the Australian Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO) from 2005 to 2008 and was concurrently Head of Strategic Operations Intelligence. He was the Australian ...