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February 11, 2019 Open Forum
The Struggle to Maintain Momentum in the Australia-India Partnership

In late November 2014, in the flurry of foreign visits that marked his early months in power, Narendra Modi became the first Indian prime minister in almost thirty […]

Ian Hall

Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, EAS, G20, Malabar exercises, Quad, RCEP
September 5, 2017 National Commentaries
A Southeast Asian Perspective

The annual ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) and the related ASEAN-plus meetings—a series of ASEAN-led forums involving foreign ministers from 27 nations across the Indo-Pacific—were held from August 2-8, […]

Kuik Cheng-Chwee*

ARF, ASEAN Way, BRI, concentric multilateralism, EAS, hedging, Nine-dash line, North Natuna Sea, South China Sea
June 17, 2017 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

This second positive scenario of possible Russo-US cooperation in Asia assesses the latest developments in bilateral relations and US anti-Russian sentiments, the regional background in the Asia-Pacific as […]

Anna Kireeva

APEC, ASEAN, Asia pivot, Donald Trump, EAS, NATO, North Korea, RCEP, RFE
February 1, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (January 2017)

Russia appears to be on the precipice of some important change with less optimism than before but more candor about uncertainties. The December Putin-Abe summit left more questions […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Abe Shinzo, ASEAN, Central Asia, comfort women, EAS, energy, Eurasian Economic Union, G7, Greater Eurasia, GSOMIA, India, Kazakhstan, Kuril Islands, Mongolia, Northern Territories, One Belt One Road, Park Geun-hye, Putin, Russian Far East, sanctions, SCO, Silk Road Economic Belt, South China Sea, Taiwan, THAAD, TPP, Trump
June 30, 2016 Special Forum
Introduction to the Special Forum: Urgent Calls for a Common Agenda between Europe and Asia

The G7 summit in late May brought to the fore the question of cooperation across two continents under US leadership in the face of intensifying challenges from China […]

Editorial Staff

16 + 1, Chinese FDI, EAS, Extended deterrence, Great-power revanchism, Institution-building
June 30, 2016 Special Forum
Regional Security Architecture in the Asia-Pacific: What Role for the EU?

Ever since the financial crisis crept from the United States to Europe in 2008, we have observed change in the international system, in general, and in Asia, in […]

Michael Reiterer

CBM, CICA, EAS, EU-China Connectivity, Global Strategy, Hegemon, Multipolarity, Revisionist foreign policy, Rule of law
April 19, 2016 Open Forum
Russia-Southeast Asia Relations: In China’s Shadow?

From May 19-20, the leaders of Southeast Asia nations will convene for the Russia-ASEAN summit at the Black Sea resort of Sochi to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of […]

Vitaly Kozyrev

APEC, EAS, EEU, regional security architecture, Russian Far East
April 30, 2015 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 3, No. 2)

Different options have recently been aired before Washington think tanks for the regional architecture of Asia/the Asia-Pacific/the Indo-Pacific. Comparisons of four of these and the responses to some […]

Editorial Staff

APC, EAS, mililateralism, NAPCI, pivot to Asia, Sinocentrism, sub-regional multilateralism, TPP
October 18, 2013 Topics of the Month
The China Dream – 4

This monthly post tracks developments around the “China Dream” since September 17, 2013 and engages Manoranjan Mohanty whose view was summarized in the rejoinder to my previous post. […]

Ming Wan

APEC summit, CCP power, EAS, good-neighborly treaty, Li Keqiang, Mao legacy, purify the society, Shanghai FTA, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Xi Jinping