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Date
May 2016
Publication: Indo-Pacific Strategic Digest
The Autumn 2016 edition of the Indo-Pacific Strategic Digest is testimony to the impressive cognitive skills of the contributing students, and an empirical yardstick for measuring the Centre's obvious success in preparing its students for senior leadership positions within their respective organisations.
These essays capture the diversity and dynamism of the challenges confronting Australia's defence and national security community and those of regional partners in today's vastly more complex, volatile and interconnected world. In the future strategic environment, senior officers must be thought leaders, as well as skilled practitioners. They must be able to reach within themselves to think through, and resolve, operational and strategic dilemmas in very short time spans.
A thorough reading of the Digest, spanning a dizzying array of security themes, suggests that we are in good hands. There are thought provoking articles on Australia's defence partnership with Japan; how Australia's relationship with India might be transformed; why Afghanistan matters; and how the South China Sea dispute is inflaming tensions between the US, China and its neighbours, which has potentially serious implications for Australia as the 2016 Defence White Paper makes clear.
As a robust and engaged middle power, the increasing breadth of Australia's national security interests is illuminated by the equally perceptive and thoughtful contributions by the Centre's Australian and international students on Pakistan, the Philippines, Antarctica, climate change and the spread of jihadist-salafist influence in Southeast Asia.
Content
| Article title | Article author |
|---|---|
| Foreword | |
| Introduction | |
| Instability in Afghanistan: Why Afghanistan matters and what Australia can do to address the causes of instability | |
| Transforming the India-Australia relationship | |
| The Australia-Japan Defence relationship: Improving interoperability at the operational level | |
| The South China Sea dispute: Opportunities for ASEAN to enhance its policies in order to achieve resolution | |
| Australia’s National Interests in the Antarctic region: What is important? | |
| Islamic extremism in Indonesia: Will it affect Australia’s security in the next ten years? | |
| A greener dragon? Climate change lessons and opportunities for cooperation between China and Australia | |
| Jihadist-salafism in Indonesia: Will it present a security challenge to law and order in the next ten years? | |
| The Australia-Japan bilateral security relationship: Valuable partnership or much ado about nothing much? | |
| Under the radar: How might Australia enhance its policies to prevent ‘lone wolf’ and ‘fixated person’ violent attacks? | |
| The ‘Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro’: Will it provide a peaceful and lasting solution to the insurgency and security challenges in the Southern Philippines? | |
| Instability in Pakistan: Can Australia contribute to countering the causes of instability? | |
| China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea: How will it affect Australia’s national interests over the next ten years? | |
| Biographical details |