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2021 Lowy Institute Poll
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Personality in foreign policy

Daniel Flitton

2

Building stronger Australia-Indonesia ties

Ben Bland

3

Putin has his generation of fans – even in Australia

Elizabeth Buchanan

4

The dangers in Australia’s blissful ignorance about India

Lavina Lee

5

By the numbers: Charting the Australia-China relationship in decline

Natasha Kassam

6

US-Australia alliance a friendship, not a love affair

Erin Hurley

7

How Australians look in the mirror, and out a window to the world

Caitlin Byrne
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Afghanistan: After America
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1

The world must evacuate women police in Afghanistan

Melissa Jardine

2

Afghanistan: the right time to leave

Rodger Shanahan

3

Afghanistan: Russia faces its own risks and uncertainty

Ian Hill

4

Is Pakistan fuelling a Taliban takeover?

Hussain Nadim

5

Man on a mission: Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan

Erin Hurley

6

China’s Afghan conundrum

Henry Storey

7

Another proxy war in Afghanistan?

Aarti Betigeri

8

Afghanistan, Australia and the visa conundrum

Rodger Shanahan

9

Abandoning Afghanistan won’t bring peace

Nishank Motwani

10

Standing with Afghanistan: Inclusion and women’s rights in peace talks

Azadah Raz Mohammad , Jenna Sapiano , Felicity Gerry , Jacqui True
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An appeal to values or interests? Responding to US policy in Asia
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1

China threatens the West’s primacy, not its democratic systems

Hugh White

2

US-China rivalries: What matters for ASEAN

Nurliana Kamaruddin

3

Personality in foreign policy

Daniel Flitton

4

Australia right to back Biden on democracy

Ben Scott

5

An alliance of democracies is essential

Michael J Green

6

Australia should steer the US off a values-based Indo-Pacific strategy

Susannah Patton , Ashley Townshend