Sweetening regional ties amid heightened global uncertainty
Author: John Blaxland, ANU With a Trump presidency and China’s assertiveness adding to regional uncertainty, Australia along with its neighbours would be wise to look at new ways to sweeten regional...
View ArticleSoutheast Asia matters too
Author: John Blaxland, ANU Australia needs to look beyond great powers like China and holistically engage with its immediate neighbours in Southeast Asia. This means its approach to China, ‘thinking...
View ArticleAfter 50 years, is ASEAN retiring or just getting started?
Author: John Blaxland, ANU Fifty years ago, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines formed ASEAN. This association of primarily non-communist and relatively free-market capitalist...
View ArticleDo the lessons of Thucydides apply to Singapore?
Author: John Blaxland, ANU Recently the Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, Kishore Mahbubani, dropped a bombshell. He declared that Qatar’s experience of being embargoed by...
View ArticleShould Australia step up to rescue the Rohingya?
Author: John Blaxland, ANU and Anthony Davis, Bangkok With the might of a Buddhist-dominated state and its military pitted against a dispossessed Muslim minority, the current catastrophe unfolding in...
View ArticleTenets of Thailand’s ASEAN engagement
Authors: John Blaxland and Greg Raymond, ANU ASEAN member states have different perspectives on the significance of the grouping. As one of the founder member states, the second largest economy and a...
View ArticleReflecting on the ASEAN–Australian relationship
Author: John Blaxland, ANU The latest ASEAN Summit at Singapore follows a significant inflection point in Australia’s relationship with ASEAN associated with the mid-March 2018 ASEAN-Australia Special...
View ArticleHas Thailand’s deep south insurgency reached a tipping point?
Author: John Blaxland, ANU Recent reports of a leading insurgent surrendering to the Thai military authorities have raised hopes that the insurgency may be reaching a tipping point in favour of the...
View ArticleBehind the Australia–Thailand Strategic Partnership
Author: John Blaxland, ANU The Australia–Thailand Strategic Partnership was signed on 13 November 2020. Why did it take place and how did this happen? The joint declaration covers enhanced cooperation...
View ArticleBolstering the Quad beyond its military dimensions
Author: John Blaxland and Ashok Sharma, ANU The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) — comprising the United States, India, Japan and Australia — has been reinvigorated in response to China’s growing...
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