Tag: ASPI

Australia well placed to turbocharge its strategic tech capability (Fergus Hanson, Danielle Cave, ASPI)

Last week’s surprise AUKUS announcement by the United States, Britain and Australia has created a frenzy of focus on nuclear-powered submarines, but the bigger...

New beginnings: Rethinking business and trade in an era of strategic clarity and rolling disruption (John Coyne, Gill Savage and Michael Shoebridge, ASPI)

This special report considers the relationship between our business and trade positioning in the context of the impacts of Covid, natural disasters and the...

Iran – Iran’s presidential election may also be a contest for the next supreme leader (Ian Dudgeon, ASPI)

Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline conservative, is widely predicted to be elected as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s successor in elections scheduled for 18 June. But the...

(China) Leaping across the ocean: The port operators behind China’s naval expansion (ASPI)

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has become increasingly willing to project military power overseas while coercing and co-opting countries into accepting the objectives...

AUSTRALIA/DATA – Devolved data centre decisions: Opportunities for reform? (Gill Savage and Anne Lyons, ASPI)

Data has been referred to as the ‘new oil’ or ‘new gold’, but it’s more than that. Most organisations can’t function without it. That...

2020 in 30 minutes (ASPI)

In the final episode for 2020, The Strategist’s Brendan Nicholson, Anastasia Kapetas and Jack Norton share their thoughts on some of the key events and geopolitical developments of 2020 and...

UN PEACEKEEPING/PACIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS – Mapping Pacific contributions to UN peacekeeping (Lisa Sharland & Genevieve Feely, ASPI)

There’s a long and proud history of peacekeeping in the Pacific. Countries in the region have hosted missions, and contributed to them, to support...

AUSTRALIA/COVID19/SUPPLY CHAINS/SOVEREIGN CAPABILITY – What the coronarvirus crisis has taught us about supply chains and sovereign capability (Anthony Bergin, ASPI)

The supply chain vulnerabilities exposed by the pandemic have important lessons for other types of emergencies. https://www.aspi.org.au/opinion/what-coronarvirus-crisis-has-taught-us-about-supply-chains-and-sovereign-capability  

INDO PACIFIC – Indo-Pacific election pulse 2020: Taiwan, Singapore, New Zealand, Myanmar and the United States: Views from The Strategist (ASPI)

The ‘Indo-Pacific Election Pulse’ is an annual project examining the most consequential elections in the region and the most important for Australia’s strategic environment....

THAILAND/DIGITAL ACTIVISM – #WhatsHappeningInThailand: the power dynamics of Thailand’s digital activism (Elise Thomas, Tracy Beattie and Albert Zhang, ASPI)

Thailand's political discourse throughout the past decade has increasingly been shaped and amplified by social media and digital activism. The most recent wave of...

NORTHERN AUSTRALIA – ‘Thinking big!’: Resetting Northern Australia’s national security posture (John Coyne, ASPI)

This report highlights the vast economic opportunities in northern Australia and how they can contribute to our national security. The author makes the case that,...