Abstract How does a small power respond and adjust to a fluid and potentially dangerous strategic balancing by major powers generated by a territorial dispute?…
Topic: Maritime Security
Abstract Why has the Senkaku/Diaoyu territorial dispute escalated recurrently? This study examines the sources of the 2010 and 2012 escalations in territorial disputes over the…
Abstract International operations against piracy in the Western Indian Ocean are due to wind down. Some major external navies will probably remain, but the region’s…
Summary China has emerged as a member of the elite club of nations who are powerful at both global poles. Polar states are global giants,…
Abstract Indonesia’s geo-strategic position, its huge archipelagic disposition and its large population, which accounts for close to two-fifths of Southeast Asia’s total population, can be…
Abstract Southeast Asia’s international shipping lanes (ISL) are essential to the economic security of the Asia-Pacific region. Maintaining good order at sea serves to protect…
Abstract The history of the conflicting maritime claims in the South China Sea, focussing particularly on the recent disputes between China and Vietnam/the Philippines. The…
Abstract America’s next president must embrace risk to cope with rising Chinese sea power. The incoming administration should pivot to the Asia-Pacific more boldly than…
Abstract While the term “blue economy” has found increasing traction with a variety of stakeholders (both state and non-state) in the recent past, a working…
Summary This volume investigates the nature of threats facing, or perceived as facing, some of the key players involved in Asian maritime politics. The articles…
Summary Studies of the escalating tensions and competing claims in the South China Sea overwhelmingly focus on China and its increasingly assertive approach, while the…
Summary Indonesia is the largest archipelago state in the world comprising 17,480 islands, with a maritime territory measuring close to 6 million square kilometres. It…
Abstract On 12 July 2016, the Arbitral Tribunal in the case between the Philippines and China delivered its award. The Tribunal’s ruling represents a sweeping…
Abstract The origins and role of the concepts of peaceful coexistence and active defense in Chinese foreign policy are investigated and applied to China’s policy…
Abstract Alfred Thayer Mahan, the founder of sea power theory, noted that control of ocean was a great influence on the rise and fall of…
