Maritime Security

North Korea missile test: Seoul must now focus on sub hunting
North Korea's apparently successful test of a workable submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) was big news over the weekend. Signs that North Korea had been working on…
Maritime security and threats to energy transportation in Southeast Asia
Journal Articles
Maritime security and threats to energy transportation in Southeast Asia
Maritime security and threats to energy transportation in Southeast Asia Euan Graham The RUSI Journal Volume 160, Issue 2, 2015, pp 20-31  Euan Graham
Divining the fluid element: from cooperation to conflict in Japan-China maritime relations
Journal Articles
Divining the fluid element: from cooperation to conflict in Japan-China maritime relations
“Divining the fluid element: from cooperation to conflict in Japan-China maritime relations” first appeared in Security Challenges, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2015), pp 51-73. …
New Defence Guidelines re-brand US-Japan alliance
The US-Japan Defence Cooperation Guidelines are best thought of as an occasional re-branding exercise for the US-Japan alliance in response to changing strategic conditions…
Ashton Carter's Northeast Asia visit looks south
Ashton Carter's inaugural trip to Asia as US Secretary of Defense went about as smoothly as he could have hoped. The logic of visiting Tokyo and Seoul ahead of other capitals in…
Quick comment: Rory Medcalf on Australia's security challenges
This week’s Quick Comment podcast is with the new head of ANU’s National Security College and Lowy Institute Nonresident Fellow, Professor Rory Medcalf, who last night delivered a…
Full spectrum defence: Re-thinking the fundamentals of Australian defence strategy
Analyses
Full spectrum defence: Re-thinking the fundamentals of Australian defence strategy
In this Analysis, Alan Dupont argues that successive Australian governments have failed to define an effective national defence strategy. Australia needs a defence strategy that…
The US-India convergence
One of the most important aspects of the recent dramatic shift in US-India relations has been the convergence in the two states' narratives about Asia. It's easy to forget that…
The year India began acting east
Commentary
The year India began acting east
The year India began acting eastDanielle RajendramIndian Express26 December 2014Please click here for the full online text.Danielle Rajendram
Beijing's South China Sea objective is clear: To extend control
Within China's bureaucratic system, sometimes it is in an agency's interest to compete with others, rather than coordinate, in order to advance its own bureaucratic power and…