Owen Harries Lecture US–Russia–China: The nuclear triumvirate of the 21st century

Lowy Institute’s 2025 Distinguished Fellow for International Security Rose Gottemoeller

Rose Gottemoeller is the Lowy Institute’s 2025 Distinguished Fellow for International Security. She is currently the William J Perry Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Prior to this, she served as Deputy Secretary General of NATO from 2016 to 2019 and was Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the US State Department. In 2009 and 2010, she was chief US negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation, due to expire in 2026.

Sydney event 

Owen Harries Lecture

US–Russia–China: The nuclear triumvirate of the 21st century

Join us for this lecture marking the life and career of one of Australia’s leading foreign policy thinkers. This year, former senior NATO figure and arms control negotiator Rose Gottemoeller reflects on a new era of nuclear weapons competition. China is rapidly growing and modernising its nuclear arsenal while Russia has used nuclear sabre-rattling in its war in Ukraine. Rose Gottemoeller explores the advent of an unprecedented situation — three nuclear peers — and the implications for the United States and its allies. She will also discuss the possibilities for nuclear restraint and arms control.

Since 2013, the Owen Harries Lecture has honoured the enormous contribution made to the international debate in Australia and the United States by Owen Harries, who was a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute.