Outlines some of the challenges faced by Asia's economic and political rise and shifts.

On 8 July 2011, the Lowy Institute for International Policy hosted its eighth annual New Voices conference. The 2011 conference ‘Dynamic Asia’ adopted an Indo-Pacific regional focus. Never before in modern times have Asia and its future been so globally significant and yet so unpredictable. Home to some of the largest and fastest growing economies, over 60 per cent of the world’s population, and a growing number of security and strategic challenges, understanding the changes afoot in Asia is crucially important for our future leaders and policymakers.
'Dynamic Asia’ required participants to interrogate the way in which we think about Asia as a geopolitical and economic entity – provoking them to offer new ideas about how Australia should contemplate and approach this rapidly transforming region.
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