What is the strategic significance of the Indian Ocean to Australia? What challenges and opportunities does the region present for Australia and its partners? And how much can Australia realistically achieve in such a vast region?
The third annual Summit of Indian and Pacific Ocean island nations, with a focus on the issues that affect them most.
Amid rising concern about the United States’ ability to deter Chinese aggression and uphold a stable balance of power in the Indo-Pacific, Washington and Canberra are working to accelerate a strategy of collective deterrence.
This report lays out a case and provides a menu of policy options for how the Quad can pursue a collective approach to Indo-Pacific maritime security, with a particular focus on regional deterrence and defence.
In March, US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australia's Anthony Albanese unveiled the first part of the AUKUS pact with a $368 billion dollar handshake.
Although the geopolitical rationale for the arrangement is understandable, the parties have failed to come to terms with its core problems.
The Indian Ocean region’s importance to global trade, geopolitical competition, and maritime security is growing. Understanding its key players, regional organizations, and challenges is critical to crafting policy toward the region.
