Publications
Strategic Futures for the Indian Ocean: A Roundtable
Author(s): Tarapore, A, Brewster, D, Bo, H, Cooper, Z, Mukherjee, R, Dean, P, Sullivan de Estrada, K, Byrne, CDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: Policy
India is the most consequential strategic actor in the Indian Ocean but its capabilities and intentions — and therefore the ocean’s strategic trajectory — will continue to evolve. This Asia Policy roundtable — drawn from a strategic futures exercise hosted by the ANU National Security College (NSC...
Kick-starting a new strategic and defence partnership with Bangladesh
Author(s): Dr David BrewsterDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: OP Eds
Australia’s 2020 defence strategic update identifies the northeast Indian Ocean as a priority area as part of our immediate region, but it’s also where our security relationships are the least developed. A new report published by the National Security College examines Australia’s interests in that...
A rising Bangladesh starts to exert its regional power
Author(s): Dr David BrewsterDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: OP Eds
Dhaka is increasingly confident in an emerging role. The rest of the world would benefit to pay close attention. The recent announcement that Bangladesh would provide US$200 million in aid to Sri Lanka is an important turning point as that country moves from being an impoverished supplicant...
New Indo-Pacific Partnership: Building Australia-Bangladesh Security Ties
Author(s): David BrewsterDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: Policy
As part of its Indo-Pacific strategy, Australia needs to broaden its engagement in South Asia. For at least a decade, Australia has rightly concentrated on its partnership with India, but it is now time to broaden that strategy to include other countries in that region. Bangladesh should be an...
Protecting Education Exports: Minimising the damage of China’s future economic coercion
Author(s): Dirk van der Kley, Benjamin HerscovitchDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: Policy
Coercion against Australia’s education sector would significantly impact the nation’s prosperity. Education is Australia’s only remaining export to China valued over $10 billion annually which is both reliant on China and which Beijing can target without significant self-harm. And unlike many...
Australia as a Space Power: Combining Civil, Defence and Diplomatic Efforts
Author(s): Cassandra SteerDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: Policy
Space is a critical strategic domain for Australia’s civilian and military interests but is increasingly congested, contested and competitive. Major powers are engaged in a destabilising space arms race – China, Russia and the United States have rejected the strategic restraint that kept space a...
Senate inquiry into foreign policy research funding: submission from Head of NSC
Author(s): Professor Rory MedcalfDate of publication: 2021
Publication type: Policy
In this submission to an Australian Senate inquiry, the Head of the National Security College, Professor Rory Medcalf, argues for foreign and security policy research to be a national priority, linked to clear requirements for national-interest relevance and collaboration between institutions. He...
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...
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