Geo-political trends point to the decline of the Post - Cold War order in the Asia Pacific region. Introduction For several decades Asia Pacific geopolitics has been dominated by the strategic primacy of the United States. That is changing. New economic and strategic power centres are emerging. China is well on the way to major...

This report look looks at the influence the UK has with its connections, such as Australia and other commonwealth countries in the region.

Fragile states are those characterised by problems of weak governance or of conflict, internal or cross-border. They are also described, less crisply but more carefully, as countries in fragile and conflict-affected situations – hence the acronym used in this paper, FCA countries. For about a decade the demands of providing international assistance to FCA countries...

A key challenge for Australian policy makers is developing an understanding of the sorts of security threats likely to confront Australia in the years ahead. Typically, this cognitive process involves inferring from past and present trends to produce a prevailingly linear picture of future developments.

For 20 years, the US pursued a policy towards Burma that was bound to fail.