ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. ASPI’s first big policy impact was arguing that Australia must intervene to save Solomon Islands. The …
The dramatic creation of AUKUS has focused attention on the military response to China’s increasing capacity to project force across the Indo-Pacific. The furore it sparked, highlighted by the predictably strong Chinese claims of retaliation, …
A new ASPI report, The Pacific Fusion Centre: the challenge of sharing information and intelligence in the Pacific, finds that much remains to be done in this area. The report examines the Australian-sponsored Pacific Fusion …
Good foreign policy and diplomacy and sound national security in the Pacific islands doesn’t just require solid ideas and good plans. It needs robust evidence of what works and a level of informed public debate …
ASPI’s Lisa Sharland is joined by Joanne Wallis, professor of international security at the University of Adelaide, to discuss her chapter on ‘Strategic competition and the Pacific islands’ in the Institute for International and Strategic …