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Sam Roggeveen
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Sam Roggeveen is Program Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program. He is the author of The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace (Opens in new window), 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 Trade, and as an analyst in the Defence Intelligence Organisation.
Sam has a longstanding 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 (Opens in new window), 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 international 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.
Australian foreign and defence policy, China's military forces, US defence and foreign policy, drones
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