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Great-Power Competition

The Strategic Imperative of Critical Minerals in AUKUS

By Sarah Tzinieris

[July 2025] This article, "The Strategic Imperative of Critical Minerals in AUKUS" by Ansel Bayly & Dr Sarah Tzinieris, was...

Cyber to Soil: How America’s Food System Became a Battlespace

By Alicia Ellis

[July 2025] This article, "Cyber to Soil: How America’s Food System Became a Battlespace" by Alicia Ellis, Sarah Shoer, &...

Fortress AUKUS: order-engineering by exclusion in the Indo-Pacific

By Sarah Tzinieris

[June 2025] This article, "Fortress AUKUS: order-engineering by exclusion in the Indo-Pacific" by Sarah Tzinieris & Zeno Leoni, was originally...

To Exclude or Not to Exclude: AUKUS and Order-Engineering

By Zeno Leoni

[March 2023] Introduction While the delivery aspect of AUKUS – that is of nuclear-propelled submarines and advanced technological capabilities –...

AUKUS Is Not the New Asian NATO, nor Even a Start at One

By David B. Shear

[October 2022] The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and the National Broadcasting Company’s (NBC) Meet the Press conducted...

AUKUS, NATO, and Euro-Atlantic Security Post-Ukraine

By Lawrence Freedman

[September 2022] The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 was one of those punctuation points in history, like the...

AUKUS and the Evolution of Special Operations for Great-Power Competition

By David Kilcullen

[September 2022] Introduction Special operations (SO) have emerged as an important area of quiet collaboration since the trilateral AUKUS pact...

AUKUS and Pacific Grand Strategy: A View From Washington

By James Stavridis

[September 2022] The new trilateral security partnership formed by Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States adds a significant...