This article is the ninth in a series on ‘Women, Peace and Security’ that The Strategist will publish over coming weeks in recognition of International Women’s Day 2018. Eds. In 2015, the UN Security Council published its …
Peter Jennings has set out a disturbing but compelling vision that Leninist autocracies with nuclear weapons pose new risks to global peace. He’s right that common threads among the Chinese, Russian, North Korean and Iranian …
Although there’s been a discernible reduction in the magnitude of Chinese cyber intrusions in the past few years, the threat has been transformed, not diminished. While US diplomacy has helped reshape Chinese cyber activities during …
The beat Police officers gone rogue This BBC exposé offers a fascinating insight into a phenomenon extensively explored by Hollywood but rarely witnessed in real life: the inner workings of a police unit gone rogue, …
After difficult discussions, agreement has been reached on the question to be put in the 4 November 2018 referendum on New Caledonia’s independence. But tricky negotiations continue. France, the colonial power, is claiming to be neutral, …
The Philippines is now the site of the greatest terrorism threat in Southeast Asia. That much is clear from the dramatic developments in the southern island of Mindanao during 2017. For some five months, a …
By all accounts, the ASEAN–Australia summit was a success. The Sydney Declaration complemented the existing 2015–2019 Plan of Action to Implement the ASEAN–Australia Strategic Partnership. These documents give a long list of policy issues both …
On 20 December 2017 shortly after 10 am, the coral encrusted bow and forward hydroplanes of AE1 appeared on the display, relaying images from a video camera suspended from the search vessel Fugro Equator, hovering more than …
Last year’s Marawi crisis represents the most significant terrorism development in Southeast Asia since the 2002 Bali bombings. Despite expectations that the rollback of Islamic State (IS) forces in the Middle East would see a …
The security treaty between Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America—the ANZUS Treaty—was signed in September 1951 and came into force in April 1952. The treaty was one of a network of security …
Events on the Gaza–Israel border during the past few days clearly demonstrate the irrelevance of the two-state solution to the Israel–Palestine conflict. On 30 March, as many as 30,000 Palestinians gathered at several points on the …
Sea state The Royal Australian Navy has completed verification trials of a new drone. The Camcopter S-100 is made of titanium and carbon fibre and is designed to navigate via preprogrammed GPS waypoints, improving the …
US President Donald Trump’s recent cabinet shakeup—with former CIA Director Mike Pompeo replacing Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State and foreign-policy hardliner John Bolton replacing H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser—represents a significant shift in …
Mahathir Mohamad thinks Australia might earn the right to join ASEAN. Indeed, Dr M. thinks Australia could be ‘entitled’ to ASEAN membership. Pause for a moment of amazement. This is Dr Mahathir, the Malaysian leader …
Until the terrorist attack at a market in southern France on 23 March, French President Emmanuel Macron had been planning to launch a new European-level political campaign. Though the official rollout has now been postponed, Macron’s …
This article is the eighth in a series on ‘Women, Peace and Security’ that The Strategist will publish over coming weeks in recognition of International Women’s Day 2018. Eds. The Da’esh terror group’s genocide of the Yazidi …
Four days before the United Kingdom’s 1924 election, the Daily Mail published a letter purportedly written by Comintern Chairman Grigori Zinoviev calling on British Communists to mobilise ‘sympathetic forces’ in the Labour Party to support an …
It’s the beginning of the Easter long weekend and Team Strategist isn’t publishing today. But we’ll have two excellent articles for you tomorrow and another on Monday. And then on Tuesday we’ll return to our …
Welcome to The Strategist Six, a feature providing a glimpse into the thinking of prominent academics, government officials, military officers, reporters and interesting individuals from around the world. 1. As a top US cyber specialist, you’ve …
The beat No charges for officers in Alton Sterling slaying The Louisiana Attorney General has announced that two white police officers who shot and killed a black man in 2016 will not face criminal charges. …