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Monday 4 November 2024
12:30pm - 1:30pm AEDT LIVE STREAM
The Lowy Institute
31 Bligh Street, Sydney

Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with The Economist’s defence editor, Shashank Joshi, which will cover the Ukraine war, the Middle East, China’s nuclear ambitions, tensions between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea, the implications of the US presidential election for international security, and much more, including questions from the audience.

Shashank Joshi is The Economist’s defence editor. Previously, he served as Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and Research Associate at Oxford University’s Changing Character of War program. He has published books on Iran’s nuclear program and India’s armed forces, written for a wide range of newspapers and journals, and appeared regularly on radio and television.

Sam Roggeveen, Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program, will host the conversation.

Shashank Joshi's visit is supported the Australian Department of Defence through the Strategic Policy Grants program.

Shashank Joshi

Defence Editor, The Economist

Sam Roggeveen

Director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute

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