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Saving multilateralism: the G20, the WTO, and world trade
The multilateral trading system, an important contributor to global peace and prosperity, is in trouble. In a new Lowy Institute Analysis for the G20 Studies Centre, Mark Thirlwell argues that its...
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G20 needs to pay attention to WTO
In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Mark Thirlwell writes that the WTO needs to be prepared for the ways in which looming mega-regional deals will change the way global trade is...
View ArticleCan G20 leaders save the multilateral trading system? Will they bother?
Wednesday, 19 June 2013This week saw the US and EU agree to launch talks on what has been described as potentially the 'biggest bilateral trade deal in history.' The proposed Transatlantic Trade...
View ArticleAustralia still needs Europe
Tuesday, 2 July 2013Guest bloggerDr Daniel Woker is the former Swiss Ambassador to Australia and now a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Gallen.Two recent short pieces on The Interpreter come to...
View ArticleThe 'win-win' New Zealand-Taiwan FTA
Monday, 15 July 2013On the measure of FTAs signed, New Zealand's 'Asian Century' project is doing better than that of its larger, louder neighbour. Last week, New Zealand became the...
View ArticleRudd rides the PNG tiger economy
Tuesday, 16 July 2013As a long-time advocate of paying attention to Australia's relations with Papua New Guinea, I have to cheer Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's decision to visit Port Moresby so...
View ArticleG20 Brisbane: Can Australia do the 'vision thing'?
Wednesday, 31 July 2013Mike Callaghan is Director of the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre. Tax and trade will be two high profile issues on the G20 agenda when Australia chairs the forum in...
View ArticleTPP: The fight over investment rights
Thursday, 1 August 2013Guest bloggerAmy Schwebel is a research officer for the Australian Council of Trade Unions.After three-and-a-half years of negotiation, the investment chapter of the Trans...
View ArticleWhy the Coalition is the best choice on foreign, aid and trade policy at this...
Monday, 19 August 2013Guest bloggerJulie Bishop is the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Interpreter has also asked Foreign Minister Bob Carr to submit an article making Labor's case.The...
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Trade priorities in the 2013 election
Monday, 26 August 2013Shadow Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's...
View ArticleWhy Labor is the best choice on foreign, aid and trade policy at this election
Wednesday, 4 September 2013Guest bloggerSenator Bob Carr is the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Earlier in the campaign, The Interpreter carried a piece from Shadow Foreign Minister...
View ArticleIn Conversation: Andrew Michelmore with Linda Jakobson
Wednesday, 18 September 2013Linda Jakobson discusses Chinese investment with Andrew Michelmore, CEO of MMG Limited, at the Lowy Institute's first Changing China Lecture in Beijing. Mr Michelmore...
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Dr Daniela Strube
Research FellowLowy Institute for International PolicyRelated Issues: The Global Financial CrisisGlobal EconomyAid and developmentWorld IssuesRelated Programs/Projects: G20 Studies...
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Bilateral, regional, multilateral: Trade negotiations are warming up
Wednesday, 9 October 2013Australian trade officials are having a busy time at the moment.Firstly, the...
View ArticleWith 365 days until the Brisbane summit, Bishop outlines Australia's G20 agenda
Friday, 15 November 2013Hugh Jorgensen is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre.Last night in her address to Commonwealth foreign ministers, who are meeting in Sri Lanka for a...
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Bali trade deal a small win for WTO, but will it rescue the Doha Round?
Monday, 9 December 2013How significant is the WTO trade deal agreed in Bali on 7 December? The headline in the...
View ArticleInterview: Adam Minter on the Junkyard Planet
Tuesday, 11 February 2014Journalist Adam Minter has written a fascinating account of the global rubbish and recycling industry. I recommended his book, Junkyard Planet, as one of my top '...
View ArticleThe Australian economy: How does it compare?
Wednesday, 19 February 2014The meeting of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Sydney next weekend provides an excuse to turn the spotlight inwards, towards the domestic economy. The...
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Where economics and geopolitics meet
Tuesday, 4 March 2014The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), repeatedly described as the 21st century platinum-...
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Australia-China trade: Beijing means business
Thursday, 13 March 2014Gary HoganHistory shows that social unrest and political upheaval have one of two elemental causes: either empty stomachs or full stomachs....
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