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INDIA – Can Modi calm the farm? A “crash or crash through” approach has served India’s PM well, but India’s farmers are proving a...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always been coated in Teflon: the kinds of policies and actions that would have brought down other leaders...

USA/ASIA – Washington’s warped Asia policy debate (Dhruva Jaishankar, The Interpreter)

Whoever Joe Biden puts into key positions, best they make quick studies on regional dynamics. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/washington-s-warped-asia-policy-debate

ICELAND – Learning from an island in a pandemic (Grant Wyeth, The Interpreter)

For all the focus on New Zealand’s and Taiwan’s successes,another fascinating island nation has kept the virus at bay. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/learning-island-pandemic

Favourites of 2020: Evil Geniuses (Sam Hendricks, The Interpreter)

Creating an American dystopia took planners, architects and salesmen. How did they get away with it? https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/favourites-2020-evil-geniuses

ASIA – In this episode of COVIDcast, Sam Roggeveen, Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program, sits down with the two leading researchers...

In this episode of COVIDcast, Sam Roggeveen, Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program, sits down with the two leading researchers behind the...

USA – In this episode of The Director’s Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with Evan Osnos, the award-winning journalist, author and staff writer for The...

In this episode of The Director’s Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with Evan Osnos, the award-winning journalist, author and staff writer for The New Yorker....

AUSTRALIA – What Australia’s intelligence community wants for Christmas: a secure private cloud (Michael Shoebridge, The Strategist)

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/what-australias-intelligence-community-wants-for-christmas-a-secure-private-cloud/

AUSTRALIA/DATA – Devolved data centre decisions: Opportunities for reform? (Gill Savage and Anne Lyons, ASPI)

Data has been referred to as the ‘new oil’ or ‘new gold’, but it’s more than that. Most organisations can’t function without it. That...

2020 in 30 minutes (ASPI)

In the final episode for 2020, The Strategist’s Brendan Nicholson, Anastasia Kapetas and Jack Norton share their thoughts on some of the key events and geopolitical developments of 2020 and...

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