Publications
Clever Country in a Changed World: Re-Thinking Australian Science Policy
Author(s): Paul HarrisDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: Policy
The global science and technology system has undergone massive change since 2000 and is now a key site of geoeconomic competition between states. For the first time in Australia’s history, its most significant partner for science collaboration will be a country other than its principal ally, the...
Agalega: A glimpse of India’s remote island military base
Author(s): Samuel BashfieldDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: OP Eds
Satellite imagery reveals the transformation of an Indian Ocean island into a strategic outpost. Many questions remain. The small, remote Mauritian island of North Agalega, located in the south-western Indian Ocean, 1,122 kilometres north of Mauritius, is currently a hive of construction activity...
The Mozambique Channel is the next security hotspot
Author(s): Dr David BrewsterDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: OP Eds
An Islamist insurgency is spilling danger into a major shipping lane, and countries must decide who they want to fix it. The waters off Mozambique are becoming a major new security hotspot in the Indian Ocean. An Islamist insurrection in northern Mozambique that the government seems powerless to...
Russia wants to be a power to be reckoned with in the Indian Ocean
Author(s): Dr Alexey MuravievDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: OP Eds
No public strategy is defined, but a list of Moscow’s military and paramilitary activity in the region is revealing. February this year was marked by a heightened Russian naval activity in the Indian Ocean. Russian naval task groups drawn from the Baltic and Black Sea fleets took part in two...
India should prioritise a denial strategy in the Indian Ocean
Author(s): Arzan TaraporeDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: OP Eds
The stand-off with China in the Himalayas has raised a broader debate about India’s strategic outlook. To break the border stand-off between India and China in the Himalayas, some Indian analysts have advocated going on the offensive against China in the Indian Ocean. But that would be vague,...
Chagos: A boundary dispute tips over a sovereignty ruling
Author(s): Natalie KleinDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: OP Eds
A case between Mauritius and Maldives stands on the ICJ opinion on the former’s claim to the Chagos Archipelago. The decision last month of a Special Chamber of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea on a maritime boundary dispute between Mauritius and the Maldives reflects two...
Embracing Difference: Governance of Critical Technologies in the Indo-Pacific
Author(s): Jolyon Ford, Damian CliffordDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: Policy
This paper considers what an approach to human rights and the ethical governance of critical technologies could entail for Quad members. Its focus is data-driven technologies, like artificial intelligence. The key insight of the paper is that policymaking and diplomacy on critical technologies...
The Digital Indo-Pacific: Regional Connectivity and Resilience
Author(s): Trisha Ray, Sangeet Jain, Arjun Jayakumar, Anurag ReddyDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: Policy
The aim of this paper is to lay a foundation for inclusive collaboration toward a Digital Indo-Pacific, which accounts for the region’s differing but complementary strengths. A relatively new entrant in geopolitical nomenclature, the ‘Indo-Pacific’ has expanded to capture several ideas: the rule of...
Building Cooperation: Cyber, Critical Technology and National Security
Author(s): Kohei Takahashi, Tatsuo Ide, Ikuo Takahashi, Kazuo Tokito, Takahiro SasakiDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: Policy
The novel coronavirus pandemic has illustrated the significant role of states in enacting effective multilateral responses toward the pandemic, which has transformed the relationship between individuals and states. However, the pandemic has also revealed the vulnerability of international...
Networked: Techno-Democratic Statecraft for Australia and the Quad
Author(s): Martijn RasserDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: Policy
World leaders recognize that a strategic competition is underway and that the geopolitical context in which it will play out is morphing. Many of these leaders also understand that technology is at the core of this competition. Technology-leading countries will drive the digital economy, gaining...
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