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Thu November 06 2008
On 7 November 2008, as part of our Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted The Grand Chief, Rt. Hon Sir Michael Somare GCMG CH, Prime ...
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On 7 November 2008, as part of our Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted The Grand Chief, Rt. Hon Sir Michael Somare GCMG CH, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. The title of Sir
Michael Somare's lecture was 'Pacific Regional Challenges'. He discussed the urgency with which the Pacific and the world must tackle the challenge of climate change, calling for a global paradigm
shift ...
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On 7 November 2008, as part of our Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted The Grand Chief, Rt. Hon Sir Michael Somare GCMG CH, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. The title of Sir
Michael Somare's lecture was 'Pacific Regional Challenges'. He discussed the urgency with which the Pacific and the world must tackle the challenge of climate change, calling for a global paradigm
shift to transform the way the world values a healthy and functioning natural environment.
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Tue October 28 2008
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 29 October, Mark Thirlwell, Director of the Institute's International Economy program, looked at the resumed battle ...
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At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 29 October, Mark Thirlwell, Director of the Institute's International Economy program, looked at the resumed battle for the Commanding Heights of the world economy,
and asked whether the apparent victory for the free market secured in the 1980s and 1990s is now about to be overturned in favour of the state.
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 29 October, Mark Thirlwell, Director of the Institute's International Economy program, looked at the resumed battle for the Commanding Heights of the world economy,
and asked whether the apparent victory for the free market secured in the 1980s and 1990s is now about to be overturned in favour of the state.
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Tue October 21 2008
At this week's Wednesday Lunch, the Lowy Institute for International Policy launched 'Zealous democrats: Islamism and democracy in Egypt, Indonesia an...
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At this week's Wednesday Lunch, the Lowy Institute for International Policy launched 'Zealous democrats: Islamism and democracy in Egypt, Indonesia and Turkey'. The authors of this new Lowy Institute
Paper, Anthony Bubalo, Greg Fealy and Whit Mason, all spoke about their ideas expressed in the Paper.
At this week's Wednesday Lunch, the Lowy Institute for International Policy launched 'Zealous democrats: Islamism and democracy in Egypt, Indonesia and Turkey'. The authors of this new Lowy Institute
Paper, Anthony Bubalo, Greg Fealy and Whit Mason, all spoke about their ideas expressed in the Paper.
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Mon October 20 2008
As part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted an address by the Chief of the Australian Army, Lieutenant General K. J. Gilles...
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As part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted an address by the Chief of the Australian Army, Lieutenant General K. J. Gillespie AO DSC CSM. In the last decade the Australian
Defence Force has put a great weight of effort into activities such as stabilisation and reconstruction. In his speech, the Chief of Army provided his insights into how reconstruction activities
could...
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As part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted an address by the Chief of the Australian Army, Lieutenant General K. J. Gillespie AO DSC CSM. In the last decade the Australian
Defence Force has put a great weight of effort into activities such as stabilisation and reconstruction. In his speech, the Chief of Army provided his insights into how reconstruction activities
could be better implemented, and how a whole of nation approach is likely to offer a more comprehensive way of achieving desired national objectives in the rebuilding of disrupted societies.
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Tue October 14 2008
Satellite television and the internet have broken Arab governments' stranglehold on information, forcing regimes to react in order to control a growin...
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Satellite television and the internet have broken Arab governments' stranglehold on information, forcing regimes to react in order to control a growing channel for organised dissent. At this
week’s Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, acclaimed former ABC journalist David Hardaker explored how the 'new media' in the Middle East is changing Arab politics and what local regimes are trying to do
to stop it...
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Satellite television and the internet have broken Arab governments' stranglehold on information, forcing regimes to react in order to control a growing channel for organised dissent. At this
week’s Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, acclaimed former ABC journalist David Hardaker explored how the 'new media' in the Middle East is changing Arab politics and what local regimes are trying to do
to stop it, in a presentation entitled 'Genie out of the bottle: How satellite TV and the internet are changing Arab politics'.
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