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OSCE and the Asia-Pacific Apr 18, 2012

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On 16 June, as part of the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in Europe, Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, spoke on the relevance of this body to the Asia-Pacific and what it offers to partners in this region.

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A Copenhagen price collar Apr 18, 2012

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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process has focused on commitments of developed countries with an exclusive goal of emission reductions from historical base year emissions. However, these baseline emissions trend vary widely, and achieving similar targets can require very different efforts by different countries at different times. These differences have greatly hampered climate cooperation.

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Dangerous games Apr 18, 2012

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At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 9 July, Professor Margaret MacMillan, Professor of International History at the University of Oxford and the Warden of St Antony’s College, discussed how history casts a shadow over the present in more ways than we realise, in a presentation entitled 'Dangerous games: The uses and abuses of history'.

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Possible parallels Apr 18, 2012

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On 28 September 2009, as part of the Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute was pleased to host H.E. Prof. László Sólyom, the President of the Republic of Hungary, who discussed how the experiment in Central and Eastern Europe started twenty years ago offers parallels and transferable experiences which may be relevant for the planning, launching and leading of a peaceful global transition to social and environmental sustainability.

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Perilous journeys Apr 18, 2012

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At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 14 November 2007, Mr Peter Beck, Executive Director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, spoke on the plight of a large number of ordinary people who have fled the hardship of life in North Korea to a precarious existence in China. His presentation was entitled 'Perilous journeys: the plight of North Korean refugees in China and beyond.'

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Design faults Apr 18, 2012

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On 18 July, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, Allan Gyngell, addressed the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy about his new Policy Brief, entitled Design faults: the Asia Pacific’s regional architecture.

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Iraq and Afghanistan Apr 18, 2012

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In the Wednesday Lunch on 24 September, Non–resident Fellow Lydia Khalil shared her recent experiences traveling and working in Iraq and Afghanistan and discussed how commonalities can be applied to successful stability operations in these and any other potential conflict zone.

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Radiation and reason Apr 18, 2012

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For more than half a century the view that radiation represents an extreme hazard has been accepted. At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 20 October, Professor Wade Allison challenged that view by facing the question "How dangerous is ionising radiation?"

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Report from Yokohama Apr 18, 2012

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On 13-14 November, Japan hosted the 18th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Yokohama. Mark Johnson, who was at Yokohama as one of the three Australian representatives on the APEC Business Advisory Council, provided a report card on the Yokohama meetings.

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The return of geo-economics Apr 18, 2012

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At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 23 June, Mark Thirlwell, Director of the Institute’s International Economy program, discussed the entanglement of international economics, geopolitics and security, and assessed whether we are headed for a new age of geo-economics.

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