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  • 28 Jul 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Regional relationships
    • US-China

    Japanese defence normalisation: Progress on three fronts

    Malcolm Cook
  • 24 Jul 2015
    • Maritime Security

    Here be pirates: Why Southeast Asia needs to boost maritime cooperation

    Elliot Brennan
  • 7 Jul 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Emerging Threats
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • US-China

    South China Sea: Why Korea is silent, and why that's a good thing

    Robert E Kelly
  • 12 May 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Emerging Threats
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Australia and Asia
    • Intelligence and security

    North Korea missile test: Seoul must now focus on sub hunting

    Brendan Thomas-Noone
  • 1 May 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Australia and Asia
    • Intelligence and security

    New Defence Guidelines re-brand US-Japan alliance

    Euan Graham
  • 13 Apr 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Ashton Carter's Northeast Asia visit looks south

    Euan Graham
  • 17 Mar 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Cyber Security
    • Emerging Threats
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Quick comment: Rory Medcalf on Australia's security challenges

    John Gooding
  • 13 Feb 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Institutions
    • Regional relationships
    • China-India Relations
    • US-China

    The US-India convergence

    Shashank Joshi
  • 17 Dec 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Beijing's South China Sea objective is clear: To extend control

    Jingchao Peng
  • 12 Dec 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Emerging Threats
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Lessons on strategic stability and SSBNs from the Cold War

    Sir Mark Stanhope
  • 11 Dec 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    The propaganda war over maritime rights

    Linda Jakobson
  • 27 Nov 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Regional tensions on display at Fifth Xiangshan Forum

    Merriden Varrall
  • 7 Nov 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    US and allies outgunned in South China Sea

    Julian Snelder
  • 6 Nov 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    China's overseas basing strategy

    Brendan Thomas-Noone
  • 16 Oct 2014
    • Maritime Security

    Piracy and maritime robbery on the rise again in Southeast Asia

    Elliot Brennan
  • 2 Oct 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Strategic stability and SSBNs: Arms control may be the answer

    Peter Dombrowski
  • 29 Sep 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Cyber Security
    • Emerging Threats
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Cyberwar and war in space: Making SSBNs more dangerous

    Brendan Thomas-Noone
  • 26 Sep 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Chinese submarine's Sri Lanka visit prompts rescue questions

    James Brown
  • 21 Aug 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    INS Arihant revealed

    Sam Roggeveen
  • 12 Aug 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    SSBNs destablising? Not if command and control is maintained

    Ravi Ganesh
  • 11 Aug 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Emerging Threats

    The dangers of SSBN proliferation in Indo-Pacific Asia

    Peter Dombrowski
  • 7 Aug 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    Why sea-based nuclear weapons won't stabilise the Indo-Pacific

    Bruno Tertrais
  • 19 Mar 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Is India 'losing' the Bay of Bengal?

    David Brewster
  • 26 Feb 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    US defence budget: Hagel cuts won't be the last

    Sam Roggeveen
  • 19 Feb 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    China's navy showing its inexperience on the open oceans

    James Goldrick
  • 18 Feb 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    China's naval exercise: Jakarta Post story raises new questions

    Rory Medcalf
  • 8 Jan 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Indo-Pacific security links: Yasukuni, Malaysia's strategy, Asian order and more

    Danielle Rajendram
  • 7 Jan 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    What won't happen: Three 'anti-predictions' for Northeast Asia in 2014

    Robert E Kelly
  • 19 Dec 2013
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Mike Green on Abe's security strategy and the Abbott Government in Asia

    Rory Medcalf
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