Kevin Nielsen Agojo

May 8, 2023 | eastasiaforum.org | Andrew Carr |Yun Jiang |Kevin Nielsen Agojo

Author: Andrew Carr, ANUOver the last 50 years, Australia has produced seven Defence White Papers and dozens of smaller reviews and updates. But however proudly governments announce new policy, Cabinets can change their mind at any time, on any part of the plan. This, as Michael Evans famously put it, is the ‘tyranny of dissonance’ in Australian strategy.

May 7, 2023 | eastasiaforum.org | Yun Jiang |Kevin Nielsen Agojo |Abdul Rahman Yaacob

Author: Editorial Board, ANUAustralia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong was on the money in her recent address to the National Press Club when she observed that the key goal of foreign policy was to build a regional order in which ‘no country dominates, and no country is dominated’. It’s an interest Australia shares with the other middle and smaller powers in the Asia-Pacific, as the geopolitical picture most of the region was accustomed to slips out of the frame.

Mar 21, 2023 | eastasiaforum.org | Tamás Mészáros |Dushni Weerakoon |Kevin Nielsen Agojo

Author: Tamas Meszaros, Keio UniversityProtectionist trade policies and the lack of an economic agenda for East and Southeast Asia have become central themes in critiques of US policy towards the region and its approach to managing US–China ‘strategic competition’.

Mar 20, 2023 | eastasiaforum.org | Shin Kawashima |Dushni Weerakoon |Kevin Nielsen Agojo

Author: Shin Kawashima, University of TokyoIn December 2022, the Japanese government released three major security papers — the National Security Strategy, the National Defense Strategy and the Defense Buildup Plan. Each of these documents are revisions of earlier versions. The government made several key changes in light of Japan’s present security environment. The most notable changes made in the documents are threefold. First, language related to China has shifted.

Mar 20, 2023 | eastasiaforum.org | Jagannath Panda |Dushni Weerakoon |Kevin Nielsen Agojo

Author: Jagannath Panda, Institute for Security and Development PolicyIn the past decade, global geopolitical transitions have gathered momentum. This is largely due to the emergence of the Indo-Pacific as the global centre of gravity. Obituaries of the US-led liberal international order may be exaggerated, but the shift towards multipolarity is in motion. The primary reason for this has been the continued rise of a belligerent China and the consequent strategic complications.