Their interests lay in supplying cheap cotton to British mills in return for being a market for factory-made goods from Manchester and Lancashire. As a contemporary economist Henry C. Carey wrote in ...

Since taking over Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban regime has faced escalating tensions with neighbouring countries, particularly over water issues and regional security. The regime’s deadly ...

While Australia is a major producer of raw materials, it remains heavily dependent on China for midstream processing and downstream manufacturing.

Indeed, the election result in November was a victory both for Donald Trump and for the more than 100,000 users of online prediction markets, such as Polymarket, Kalshi and PredictIt, willing to make ...

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Bitter experience shows a “global” crisis can result from failures of domestic governance and regulatory oversight in the United States. Given the Trump family’s personal investments in crypto and the ...

Dr Melanie Pill is a Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute. She oversees and progresses the climate change portfolio of the Institute’s Indo-Pacific Development Centre. Melanie has extensive knowledge ...

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On The Director’s Chair, Michael Fullilove - Executive Director of the Lowy Institute speaks with political leaders and policy makers about their lives, their careers, and their views on the world. In ...

We are featuring a series of highlights from across the year, with normal publishing to resume 6 January 2025. This article first appeared on 21 May 2024. It is commonly agreed that the Biden ...