Sam Roggeveen

Director, International Security Program
Sam Roggeveen
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Sam Roggeveen is Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program. He is the author of The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace, published by La Trobe University Press in 2023.

Before joining the Lowy Institute, Sam was a senior strategic analyst in Australia’s peak intelligence agency, the Office of National Assessments, where his work dealt mainly with North Asian strategic affairs, including nuclear strategy and Asian military forces. Sam also worked on arms control policy in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs, and as an analyst in the Defence Intelligence Organisation.

Sam has a long-standing interest in politics and political philosophy, and in 2019 he wrote Our Very Own Brexit: Australia's Hollow Politics and Where it Could Lead Us, about the hollowing out of Western democracy and its implications for Australia. 

Sam writes for newspapers and magazines in Australia and around the world, and is a regular commentator on the Lowy Institute’s digital magazine, The Interpreter, of which he was the founding editor from 2007 to 2014.

Sam also serves as lead editor at the Lowy Institute, and editor of the Lowy Institute Papers.

The new Asian order
Commentary
The new Asian order
Originally published in the Inside Story
Trump 2.0
Data Snapshot
Trump 2.0
What Donald Trump’s return would mean for Australia and the world
The time has come for an Australia‑Indonesia military pact
The time has come for an Australia‑Indonesia military pact
An effective alliance is founded on a common vital interest which can only be met together. Australia and Indonesia have one.
The case for AUKUS you should read – even if not yet the explanation we need
The case for AUKUS you should read – even if not yet the explanation we need
A Labor backbencher sets out the challenges Australia faces from China and a rationale for nuclear-powered submarines.
The economics of strategy
The economics of strategy
How one discipline can learn much from another.
Helicopter flare up should highlight China’s base instincts
Helicopter flare up should highlight China’s base instincts
An Australian military response to Beijing’s provocation is unthinkable – but there are other ways to tame its ambition.
Donald Trump and the Relative Decline of US Power in Asia
Commentary
Donald Trump and the Relative Decline of US Power in Asia
Originally published on Internationale Politik Quarterly
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