Asia
Indo-Pacific security links: Kashmir violence, Obama in Asia, Indonesian foreign policy, drones and more
By David Schaefer, an intern in the Lowy Institute's International Security program. The Indo-Pacific is a strategic system encompassing the Indian and Pacific oceans, reflecting…
After ICJ ruling, what's the future for Japanese whaling?
In the US movie Groundhog Day, protagonist Bill Murray finds himself condemned to relive the same day over and over again, until finally managing to break the time loop.
For…
Mearsheimer's big question: Can China rise peacefully?
The University of Chicago's famed international relations theorist John Mearsheimer has generously updated, and posted free of charge, the epilogue to his legendary realist book…
India links: Election special
Voting for India's Lok Sabha (lower house) elections kicked off on Monday. In place of my regular India Links, here is the best election-related reading of the week:
The…
Australia-China relations: Abbott benefits from Australia's MH370 search role
In case you hadn't heard, Prime Minister Tony Abbott is in China this week, telling everyone within earshot that Australia is open for business. To prove the point, he's traveling…
Commentary
Abbott is playing a well-balanced hand in Asia
Abbott is playing a well-balanced hand in AsiaRory MedcalfAustralian Financial Review10 April 2014Rory Medcalf
Peaceful election day in Jakarta
In Indonesia, about 180 million eligible voters were welcomed to the polls today to elect representatives in the district, provincial and national legislatures. Polling booths…
Malaysia's next 50 years (part 1): Domestic ethnocratic concerns
The MH370 tragedy has left us with many enigmas, but it has also revealed to the world a fact Malaysians have always known: an administration produced by an ethnocratic system…
Leaked 1962 report reveals India's still-unresolved military weaknesses
The recent public controversy in India over the release of a secret report on India's 1962 military defeat by China reveals a lot about some of the big strategic problems India…
Commentary
Defining Asia the Indo-Pacific way
Defining Asia the Indo-Pacific wayRory MedcalfThe Jakarta Globe31 March 2014Please click here for the online text.Rory Medcalf