The Productivity Commission is calling for ideas on how to improve Australia’s productivity growth, so it is worth paring away the DOGE rhetoric and asking whether taking an axe to government can ...

This year brings up four separate 50-year anniversaries, each a reminder of the dilemmas involved in Australia’s search for security in Asia. 1975 was a big year. In April, North Vietnamese troops ...

Martina Zapf is the General Manager at the Development Intelligence Lab and is an international expert in peacebuilding and governance. She has previously worked on peace and development programs in ...

The peacebuilding commission, or PBC, was created as part of the UN’s broader Peacebuilding Architecture in 2005. Its creation responded to a gap in the UN’s ability to respond to the “conflict trap”, ...

From 2004 to 2023, Southeast Asian countries spent more than US$42 billion on weapons. Russia was the largest arms supplier in terms of value – cornering 25% of the Southeast Asian arms market – ...

The US has a Women, Peace and Security Act, which is supposed to require that nations’ government departments implement and enforce the tenets of the WPS agenda. But time and time again, both great ...

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

Max Broad is Research Associate to the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, Dr Michael Fullilove. He works closely with the Executive Director to provide research support for papers, books and ...