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Great-Power Competition

Emerging Voices Series: Securing the Undersea Domain in an Era of Great-Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific

By Haley Smith

[August 2026] Securing the Undersea Domain in an Era of Great-Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific Over the past decade, the...

Emerging Voices Series: Securing CUI in the New Age of Geopolitical Competition

By William Freer

[August 2026] Securing Critical Undersea Infrastructure in the New Age of Geopolitical Competition ‘Connection is everything’, then Secretary of State...

Emerging Voices Series: Power Maximisation in the Indo-Pacific

By Jake Thrupp

[August 2026] Power Maximisation in the Indo-Pacific: China’s Maritime Assertiveness in the South China Sea The recent incursion of a...

Emerging Voices Series: The Importance of Revisiting Deterrence in the Space Domain

By Zoha Naser

[July 2026] The Importance of Revisiting Deterrence in the Space Domain The UK’s long awaited Defence Investment Plan (DIP), published...

Emerging Voices Series: Why AUKUS Must Win the Information Contest in Southeast Asia

By Peggy-Jean Allin

[June 2026] Last year, the second Trump administration backed AUKUS “full steam ahead”. While that secures the pact for now,...

Emerging Voices Series: Subnational Diplomacy in a Fragmenting World

By Dr Lily McElwee

[May 2026] Global governance faces a paradox. Tricky challenges that urgently require coordinated international responses – pandemics, climate change, rapid...

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...