By Kazuya Sakamoto — Since coming back to office in December 2012, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been making serious efforts to strengthen the Japan-U.S. alliance. His efforts include setting up a Japanese National Security Council to discuss security matters…
By Richard Rossow & Sarah Watson — Interest in reviving the defunct U.S.-India-Japan-Australia quadrilateral strategic dialogue is mounting. Concerns about provoking China were a principal reason behind the “Quad’s” initial failure. But recent events in the South China Sea have…
By Helen Clark — Australia’s newly released 2016 Defence White Paper indicates that Canberra has chosen to rely on the continued primacy of U.S. power and a vision for international order in line with Washington. How Australia sees itself as…
By Ellen Chambers — The increasing militarization of the South China Sea in recent months has the Australian government, and many of its partners in the region, on heightened alert. Rhetoric alone is no longer a viable tactic against China’s…
By Elke Larsen — The Australian 2016 Defence White Paper released February 25 is proof that Australia is uncertain about the future of the Indo-Pacific region, and has moved to mitigate risk by expanding hard power capabilities. Due to geographic…
By Michael Green & Zack Cooper – The Australian Defence White Paper was a long time coming, but it was worth the wait. From an American perspective, the White Paper is a carefully crafted document that will leave many in…
By Michael Sheldrick If nothing else, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s visit to the United States in mid-January — his first as Prime Minister — served to highlight a simple fact: Australia matters. In 2016 the world’s most powerful country is…
By Kathleen Hicks & Michael J. Green The events of this month have reminded Americans that Asia is a region of both great opportunity and significant risk. In just the first two weeks of the year, North Korea conducted its…
The CSIS Asia Program and International Security Program have completed an extensive study of the U.S. rebalance to Asia as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. Watch this short video providing an overview of what the rebalance is and…
By Ernest Z. Bower, Thomas Sanderson, & Phuong Nguyen Washington awoke on January 14 to news that a series of explosions and gunfire in the bustling Indonesian capital Jakarta, a city of more than 10 million, left at least seven…
