The Lowy Institute

On 5 November, as part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute for International Policy was proud to host Mr Ali Allawi, a former minister in interim and transitional Iraqi administrations and today a leading international commentator on Iraqi affairs. He is the author of the recently released and much-lauded book, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (Yale University Press, 2007).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 3 June 2009, Anthony Bubalo, Director of the West Asia Program at the Lowy Institute, previewed Iran's presidential election on 12 June. He discussed what it will mean for Iran's foreign relations and in particular for the Obama Administration's efforts to engage Tehran.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 16 September, Australia’s Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism, William Paterson PSM, provided an overview of the terrorist threat in Southeast Asia against the background of terrorism trends worldwide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 13 August at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, the authors of a new Lowy Institute Paper on the importance to Australia of the resources boom in Sub-Saharan Africa, Roger Donnelly and Benjamin Ford, launched their Paper, entitled 'Into Africa'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 11 February 2009, Fergus Hanson examined the Australian government’s current 'no policy' approach to the probability that suspected war criminals are living in Australia and looked at options for dealing with the problem.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alan Mitchell reports on the state of the New Zealand economy, and quotes the presentation to the Lowy Institute by Dr David Skilling of the New Zealand Institute.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute for International Policy was pleased to host an address by Mr Nick Warner, Secretary of Defence. The title of Mr Warner's address was '256,800 Paper Towels: Mending Defence's Broken Backbone'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 11 June at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Fergus Hanson launched his Policy Brief, 'The Dragon in the Pacific: More Opportunity than Threat' which takes a fresh look at China’s aid activities across the region.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute for International Policy was pleased to host an address by Mr Kenneth Roth, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. The title of Mr Roth's address was 'Despots masquerading as democrats: and why we let them'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 29 August 2007, as part of the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, President of the Movement for Democratic Change and Leader of the Opposition of Zimbabwe, addressed the critical economic and political situation in Zimbabwe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 20 March 2007, as part of the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, H.E. José María Aznar, the former Prime Minister of Spain, spoke to the topic 'Reinventing the West' at the Institute in 31 Bligh Street.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 19 March, Chief of Army Visiting Fellow Colonel Rodger Shanahan discussed the current status of Lebanese Hizbullah and how political forces may shape its future in a presentation entitled 'Hizbullah's post-war dilemma: walking the Lebanese political tightrope?'See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 12 December, Sam Roggeveen, editor of the Lowy Institute's blog The Interpreter, in a presentation entitled 'Blogging World Politics', discussed the impact that all types of bloggers - pyjama-clad loners in their basements, political dissidents, journalists and think tankers - are having on politics around the globe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As part of the Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, His Excellency Mr Hoshyar Zebari, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq, addressed the Lowy Institute on 22 May 2007. His presentation was entitled 'Iraq: transition to democracy'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 19 November, Ralph Ashton, Fellow in the Climate and Energy Program at ANU and Warwick McKibbin, Lowy Institute Professorial Fellow, discuss how to include terrestrial carbon in developing nations, in the climate change solution.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 9 September, Ms Lyn Lusi spoke about her experiences in the Democratic Republic of Congo, what we must learn from its tragic predicament and how the international community needs take responsibility for tackling the problem of gender-based violence as a tool of war.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 4 June at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, leading Indian strategic analyst Rahul Roy-Chaudhury looked at India's changing strategic outlook, including in its dealings with Australia and the Asia-Pacific in a presentation entitled 'Security challenges for a rising India: Responsibilities and liabilities'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 4 April, at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Mark Thirlwell, Director of the Institute's International Economy Program, discussed his forthcoming Lowy Institute Paper, 'Second thoughts on globalisation: can the developed world cope with the rise of China and India?'See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 18 June 2008 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, senior staff member at the International Monetary Fund, Hamid Faruqee discussed the recent market turmoil which has demonstrated just how interconnected global financial markets really are.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 16 June, as part of the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in Europe, Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, spoke on the relevance of this body to the Asia-Pacific and what it offers to partners in this region.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.