The Lowy Institute

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.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process has focused on commitments of developed countries with an exclusive goal of emission reductions from historical base year emissions. However, these baseline emissions trend vary widely, and achieving similar targets can require very different efforts by different countries at different times. These differences have greatly hampered climate cooperation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 9 July, Professor Margaret MacMillan, Professor of International History at the University of Oxford and the Warden of St Antony’s College, discussed how history casts a shadow over the present in more ways than we realise, in a presentation entitled 'Dangerous games: The uses and abuses of history'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 28 September 2009, as part of the Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute was pleased to host H.E. Prof. László Sólyom, the President of the Republic of Hungary, who discussed how the experiment in Central and Eastern Europe started twenty years ago offers parallels and transferable experiences which may be relevant for the planning, launching and leading of a peaceful global transition to social and environmental sustainability.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 14 November 2007, Mr Peter Beck, Executive Director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, spoke on the plight of a large number of ordinary people who have fled the hardship of life in North Korea to a precarious existence in China. His presentation was entitled 'Perilous journeys: the plight of North Korean refugees in China and beyond.'See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 18 July, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, Allan Gyngell, addressed the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy about his new Policy Brief, entitled Design faults: the Asia Pacific’s regional architecture.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the Wednesday Lunch on 24 September, Non–resident Fellow Lydia Khalil shared her recent experiences traveling and working in Iraq and Afghanistan and discussed how commonalities can be applied to successful stability operations in these and any other potential conflict zone.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For more than half a century the view that radiation represents an extreme hazard has been accepted. At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 20 October, Professor Wade Allison challenged that view by facing the question "How dangerous is ionising radiation?"See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 13-14 November, Japan hosted the 18th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Yokohama. Mark Johnson, who was at Yokohama as one of the three Australian representatives on the APEC Business Advisory Council, provided a report card on the Yokohama meetings.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.