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Inviting Indonesia to Become the Quad’s Inaugural Strategic Dialogue Partner
Since the Quad’s revival in 2017, Indonesia has been concerned that the grouping will undermine its traditional non-alignment and sideline ASEAN centrality in the region. Jakarta’s non-aligned foreign policy doctrine has helped it to skillfully sidestep formal security alliances, and…
Gendering the Indo-Pacific Dialogue: Opportunities for India and Australia
Introduction The confluence of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean as a distinctive, interdependent strategic and economic space is fundamentally transforming how both India and Australia operate with the broader region. Both countries view the Indo-Pacific as a construct…
Quad vs. RCEP: A Resilient Supply Chain, Advantage India?
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) held its first ever (virtual) summit level meeting on March 12, 2021, between the heads of the four democratic partners—India, Japan, Australia and the United States. While the summit is historic for a number of…
A Look at the Indo-Pacific in 2020
On January 3, 2020, as United States’ military strikes killed Iran’s Major General Soleimani in Baghdad, the foreign policy world buzzed with speculations about its implications for Washington’s nascent Indo-Pacific strategy. There were concerns that the United States would be…
Hot Takes: Australia to Join Malabar 2020
India’s formal invitation to Australia to join the Malabar Exercise 2020 in November has raised two important questions. First, does this signal a change in India’s strategic posturing in the Indo-Pacific? In other words, is India shedding its hedging strategy…
COVID-19 and the Quad Leap
On October 6, the Quad—the informal coalition of Australia, India, Japan and the United States—held its second ministerial meeting in Tokyo. Despite the Quad’s quick death in 2008, increased Chinese assertiveness in the region led the four countries’ geostrategic outlooks…