The 2019 regional security outlook highlights regional security concerns and promotes informed policy-relevant outputs to advance regional security cooperation at official levels. This edition also include the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) outlook for the next 25 years.

The 2018 regional security outlook highlights regional security concerns and promotes informed policy-relevant outputs to advance regional security cooperation at official levels.

Facing a future of relative decline, changing power balances and alliance uncertainty, Australia must make ASEAN and Southeast Asia its priority for economic, political and security cooperation.

Overview This volume asks whether the Asia Pacific region can preserve order and stability while managing a strategic transformation. The assessments assembled in this volume broadly confirm the judgement that the Asia Pacific continued over the past year to deplete its most precious asset: the confident expectation that the region could preserve order and stability...

The latest formal statement of US defence policy, the QDR, plays down sweeping ambition in order to remain focused on the tasks immediately at hand—Iraq and above all, Afghanistan. And it sees a future of ‘hybrid’ warfare, likely to involve a diversity of actors and to blur the traditional distinction between inter-state conflict and protracted...