The Lowy Institute Indonesia Poll reports the results of the Institute’s second opinion poll in Indonesia. The findings challenge many assumptions about Indonesia on issues like attitudes towards Australia and the United States, openness to foreign investment, democracy, trust in other countries, and China’s rise. The 2012 Poll found that Indonesians have dramatically warmed towards...

A close look at the data tells an ambivalent story about China's growth. With most of the developed world still struggling to deliver sustained growth, much is resting on the continued strength of emerging markets in general and of China in particular. China watchers have been debating whether China’s economy is set for a hard...

This new paper in the Lowy Institute's Afghan Voices series provides two very different perspectives on Australia’s military and development efforts in Uruzgan. The first comes in the form of excerpts from an uncompleted draft on the subject by Omaid Khpalwak, an Afghan journalist tragically killed in July of this year. The second is an...

In this major new report launched on 4 November, scholars from the Lowy Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Observer Research Foundation identify common challenges and opportunities facing Australia, India and the United States in the Indo-Pacific region. The report notes that Australia-India security relations are underdeveloped and calls for the establishment of a new...

Mark Thirlwell takes a look at some of the key economic policy challenges currently facing American policymakers. Not that long ago, economists considering a career in the area of applied international macroeconomics might have found themselves debating whether to focus on developed or emerging markets. Developed markets offered the obvious attraction of being the most...