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Chinas hottest export Apr 20, 2012

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On 23 October at a special Monday edition of Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Victor Mallet, Asia Editor for The Financial Times, spoke on the topic of 'China's hottest export: environmental destruction'.

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Whats going on in Latin America Apr 20, 2012

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On 6 September 2006 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Jose Blanco and Roger Frankel asked whether Latin America's move to the left, its resurgent populism, links with the Middle East and rapidly growing Chinese influence will affect Australian interests and investments in the region, and global security. Jose Blanco is the Chairman of the Australia-Latin America Business Council (ALABC). Roger Frankel is the Director of consulting company Frank Advice (international), and a former Australian Ambassador to Venezuela.

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Bligh Street to Baghdad Apr 20, 2012

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On 2 July 2008 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Lieutenant Colonel Mark O’Neill offered a contemporary personal perspective on the experience of moving from theoretical considerations of counterinsurgency to involvement with actual counterinsurgency practice. Mark’s presentation drew on his recent seven month experience as the Senior Adviser at the Multinational Force Iraq’s Counterinsurgency Center for Excellence, during which he worked in various parts of the country.

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The challenges of nation-building Apr 20, 2012

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On 18 June 2008 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Dr Atul Khare, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General for Timor-Leste discussed the challenges of nation-building in the post-conflict environment of East Timor and the role of neighbouring countries in meeting those challenges.

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Human rights a moral compass Apr 20, 2012

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The Lowy Institute was pleased to host, as part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Commonwealth Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, who in his presentation, 'Human rights: a moral compass', outlined the Government's approach to human rights and upcoming reforms aimed at strengthening Australia's leadership in this area.

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Reforming the UN Apr 20, 2012

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At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 8 August, Jim Ingram, head of the World Food Programme for ten years, argued in a presentation entitled 'Reforming the UN: an iconoclastic view from the inside' that the focus of UN reform should shift to the economic and social activity of the wider UN system where valuable work is done.

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China perverse rising superpower Apr 20, 2012

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Westerners have presumed that China's rise will take a familiar trajectory incorporating first economic, then political and social development in a broadly liberal democratic, market-driven direction. The recent tensions with Australia underline the failure of that perspective to explain modern China and its rise. What is China today and where is it heading? At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 12 August, Asia-Pacific Editor of The Australian newspaper, Rowan Callick, explored the dimensions of the party-state.

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Global regulation and the digital economy Apr 20, 2012

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On 2 April at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Dr Jeffrey Eisenach, a leading regulatory economist and a global expert on content filtering technology, discussed the prospects for global regulation of the digital economy.
Jeffrey A. Eisenach is Chairman of the Criterion Economics consulting firm in Washington DC and an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University Law School.

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International law after Guantanamo Bay Apr 20, 2012

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In the wake of the Iraq war, both US Presidential candidates have said they will close Guantanamo Bay and take a different view from the current Administration on water boarding.
Under the next US President, can we expect a revival of US and wider interest in international law when it comes to the prohibition on torture, the use of force, non-proliferation and climate change?
Professor James Crawford discusses these issues as part of the Lowy Institute Distinguished Speaker Series.

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Zealous democrats Apr 20, 2012

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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.

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