Publications
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...
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...
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