Summary The article discusses how India’s slow emergence as a regional security actor is a reflection of its strategic policy preferences. Topics covered include India’s…
Topic: South Asian Security
Abstract The current trajectory of India–US relations is encouraging, but needs to be sustained by optimising their maritime-strategic convergence. In the maritime-configured Indo-Pacific region, the…
Abstract This article analyses two security challenges facing the Royal Cambodian Government (RGC) and the Cambodian Defence Organization at the strategic level for the next…
Abstract The central argument of this article is that constructivists in particular underestimate or even ignore the importance of the ‘real’ structural inheritance that shapes…
Abstract Control over access to the Indian Ocean is often seen through a highly securitised lens. Strategic actors have long sought to use geographical constraints…
Abstract The US rebalance to the Asia Pacific is consistently interpreted as a response to China’s material rise. While not entirely incorrect, this assumption –…
China’s ascent has led to its securitization by its neighbouring states, particularly given its precarious maritime claims in the highly strategic Indo-Pacific basin. Such a…
Abstract Perspectives from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam show that South Korea’s middle power role in Southeast Asia is confined to economics and…
Abstract Developing expeditionary capabilities for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is a priority for Chinese leaders, and the Chinese public’s expectation for protection while abroad…
Abstract As the new Indian government has settled in, what will happen to its relations with Pakistan? While some take comfort in the idea that…
Introduction New Delhi’s gamble is that calibrated punishment places the onus for escalation – and so the risk of further isolation – onto Pakistan. There…
Abstract The international order in East Asia has been anchored on four pillars. The first pillar is the 1952 San Francisco peace treaty between the…
Abstract While the analysis of normative power has dominated the debates in European international relations studies for the past 20 years, this topic has hardly…
Abstract The aim of this article is to analyze the rationale and likely impacts of Chinese military modernization, which seems focused to work as China’s…
Abstract Although the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) has made significant progress providing confidence-building mechanisms, it remains inconsistent in moving towards a shared goal of collective…
