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Date
May 2015
Publication: Indo-Pacific Strategic Digest
This issue of Indo‑Pacific Strategic Digest is a collection of the best student essays of 2015 from the senior professional development and education program of the Defence and Strategic Studies Course at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies, Australian Defence College.
The papers were chosen for publication based on their scholarly attributes and strategic relevance. The topics of the papers relate to Australia's area of primary and enduring strategic interest – the Indo‐Pacific region – and present analyses and assessments that concern Australia's policy interests.
Content
| Article title | Article author |
|---|---|
| Introduction | |
| Enhancing the Australia-India Defence relationship | |
| China's growing influence in the South-West Pacific: Australian policies that could respond to China's intentions and objectives | |
| Understanding the neighbourhood: Bougainville’s referendum for independence | |
| Japan’s strategic re-posture: Prime Minister Abe and the implications for the Japan-US alliance and regional security | |
| Cyber security: time for an integrated whole-of-nation approach in Australia | |
| Australia-Japan security relations: Improving on a ‘best friends’ relationship | |
| Russia’s security influence in Northeast Asia | |
| A contingent liability: why resolution of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute is in Australia’s national interest | |
| China-India: An analysis of the Himalayan territorial dispute | |
| Why does the People’s Republic of China continue to support the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? | |
| Enhancing Tonga's maritime security | |
| Biographical details |