Asia Pacific Security
Beijing's new map: South China Sea rivals respond
Far from calming the troubled waters of the western Pacific, President Obama's latest visit to Asia seems to have instead encouraged China to more aggressively pursue its…
Bishop invokes World War I
As Julian Snelder wrote yesterday, World War I analogies are all the rage among Asian security scholars this year (we posted a two-part examination of the similarities and…
China and the World War I analogy: How does this end?
Painting depicting the signing of the armistice in 1918. (Wikipedia.)
One hundred years ago last weekend, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire was assassinated in Sarajevo,…
The US and the international power structure: Reviewing 'Still Ours to Lead'
The rapidly escalating situation in Iraq is a major test for US foreign policy. President Obama, who outlined in his West Point address a policy of selective US engagement and…
Indo-Pacific security links: Pentagon China report, India's nukes, Vietnam's subs and more
The Indo-Pacific is a strategic system encompassing the Indian and Pacific oceans, reflecting the expanding interests and reach of China and India as well as the enduring role of…
Mapping the world's EEZs
What does a political map of the world look like if you include those sometimes contentious 200nm Exclusive Economic Zones?
Here's a handy tool from Open Democracy, who stress …
Journal Articles
In defence of the Indo-Pacific: Australia's new strategic map
In this article for the Australian Journal of International Affairs, the Lowy Institutes International Security program director Rory Medcalf argues that Indo-Pacific Asia is a…
Would Americans give their lives for Asia? No
Picture it: it's 1 March 2015. Tokyo and Beijing are headed towards what was once the unthinkable.
Over the last several months China has instituted daily non-naval maritime…
What Shinzo Abe actually said in Singapore
The Chinese rhetorical fireworks over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's speech to the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore last weekend have been so widely reported that we are at…
Are resource constraints driving China's Asia policy?
By Geoff Miller, Australian Ambassador to Japan (1986-89) and Director-General of the Office of National Assessments (1989-95).
Recent reports from the Shangri-La Dialogue…