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A hesitant tiger awakens
BY DR DAVID BREWSTER India’s foreign policy elites are grappling with a wide array of strategic challenges as the power of the country rises, writes Dr David Brewster, PhD ’10. As India rises as a...
Getting realistic about the South Pacific
BY JAMES BATLEY Advocates of stronger and more effective Australian engagement in the South Pacific face a couple of entrenched structural challenges. First, the region is hardly critical to...
Taiwan's Engagement with Southeast Asia is Making Progress under the New Southbound Policy
BY HUNTER MARSTON & RICHARD C. BUSH While Taiwan analysts have been eager to offer analyses of President Tsai Ing-wen’s New Southbound Policy (NSP), announced in May 2016, the data has been...
New security reality demands new Australian policy
BY EMERITUS PROFESSOR PAUL DIBB Australia’s international security outlook is starting to look very threatening. The White House is undermining the international order, has started a trade war with...
Time for an Indo-Australis?
BY NATALIE SAMBHI Over the past year, there’s been a flurry of regional leaders offering their vision of the Indo-Pacific, the geostrategic concept spanning two oceans that is slowly replacing the...
Facebook Can't Resolve Conflicts in Myanmar and Sri Lanka On Its Own
BY BRANDON PALADINO & HUNTER MARSTON Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been caught up in a whirlwind in recent months, giving congressional testimony and public statements defending Facebook...
The Trump-Kim Summit and Implications For Australia
BY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BRENDAN TAYLOR Following the historic events of last week, the situation on the Korean Peninsula could go one of three ways, each with significant implications for Australia...
Should Shinzo Abe happen to meet Kim Jong-un
BY DR LAUREN RICHARDSON If Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe does not come to the table with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and attempt to resolve the abduction problem once again, he will likely become...
Slow-burning China crisis the birth of a new order
BY BRENDAN SARGEANT Getting on with China now involves a learning curve for Australia as Beijing probes and coerces to test this new strategic environment. In recent weeks there has been a crisis...
Why China isn't planning to storm Taiwan's beaches
By SAM ROGGEVEEN China’s navy has grown dramatically over the past two decades, but with one surprising exception: its amphibious forces. On Monday, the Australian National University’s Strategic...
