strategic studies

SDSC team awarded $1 million grant

‘Strategic Policy for the Asia-Pacific in Transition’ program

Strategic Diplomacy in the 21st Century: Rethinking Strategy and Statecraft

Today’s most pressing security challenges – great power conflict, economic dependence, climate change and other non-traditional threats such as pandemics – are complex, entailing interconnectivity, non-linearity and emergence.

Fresh Perspectives in Security

In this multi-author edition, we have asked six of Australia’s most innovative scholars to challenge our thinking and present a fresh perspective.

Women scholars in Strategic Studies: A career reception for future leaders

Hear six accomplished women International Security scholars share their advice and insights on the upsides, downsides and challenges of being women in international strategic studies.

Alumni profile - Malcolm Davis, ASPI Senior Analyst

Malcolm Davis on his professional highlights, studying at ANU, and the advice he would give to those thinking about studying the Master of Strategic Studies.

Why is no one debating one of the budget's biggest spends?

One of the largest and fastest growing expenditures in the federal budget, defence spending, will receive little or no debate, to the cost of our nation’s security.

Integrated Asia: Australia’s Dangerous New Strategic Geography

Globalization and major power rivalry are creating a China-centric integrated Asian strategic system, drawing together the once-discrete theatres of Northeast, Southeast, South and Central Asia.

Brazen Putin tests divided West over Ukraine

Vladimir Putin’s talks with Joe Biden, followed by Russian diplomatic discussions with the US, NATO and the Commission on Security and Co-operation in Europe in Europe last week, have produced no progress whatsoever on Russia’s demands for the exclusion of Ukraine from NATO membership.

Does Australia have a ‘one China’, ‘two Chinas’ or ‘one China, one Taiwan’ policy – or all three?

Australia’s current position reflects a curious Confucian obfuscation between a foreign policy that recognises one China and a strategic policy that doesn’t.