Asia
Scene set for torrid Shangri La Dialogue
Tonight Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers the keynote address to the annual Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore. It's ostensibly a think-tank conference organised by the…
West Point speech neglects East Asian security
Amid tensions in the South China Sea and new alarm about a China-Russia alignment, President Obama's speech at West Point sends some confusing signals to the countries of Indo…
Obama at West Point: The limits of American power
Barack Obama has declared a new foreign policy doctrine: the limits of American power. The US, he argues, 'must always lead on the world stage,' but 'US military action cannot be…
US foreign policy: Atlas seeks normalcy
President Obama's surprise weekend visit to Afghanistan was the curtain raiser to a two to four-week foreign policy sales pitch that will culminate in the release of the 2014…
Inequality and security: Some strategic implications
Thomas Piketty speaking in Cambridge, Massachusetts in April 2014 (Wikimedia Commons)
Thomas Piketty's widely discussed (and contested) treatise has put the spotlight on the…
Indonesia's next president: There's an app for that
It's become something of a cliche to talk about Indonesia's love affair with social media. Internet users still only make up about 15% of the population (according to World Bank…
Chinese foreign policy: Belligerence is internally motivated
Last week, Brad Glosserman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies made the smart observation that China has recently chosen a surprisingly hard course in its…
Military & strategy links: Ballistic missiles, crisis management, paper tigers, counterinsurgency and more
Are ballistic missile defence capabilities of relevance to Australia? Andrew Davies and Rob Lyon preview their new paper on the subject.
In the latest issue of Survival, Lawrence…
China to America: Not in our backyard
Last week was a heckuva week for China's rising power: tussling with Vietnam in the South China Sea (all about America, supposedly), signing a US$400 billion gas deal with Russia …
Commentary
Narendra Modi: A transformative leader in India's relation with world
Narendra Modi: A transfomative leader in India's relation with worldRory MedcalfThe Economic Times27 May 2014Please click here for full online text.Rory Medcalf