Crime Militarising the police, constabularising the military: Insights on Philippine public safety and security strategy June 3, 2019 0 Written by Ananda Devi Domingo-Almase Image Credit:Image Credit: Philippine National Police Train with JIATF West by JIATF West/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. In an article…
China China’s military is poised to become a world class force May 24, 2018 0 Written by Srikanth Kondapalli. The 19th Party Congress guidelines, published in October 2017, envisioned the establishment of joint theatre commands by the 2020 and the People's…
China Ideology in China’s military reform May 18, 2018 1 Written by Juliette Genevaz. China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), that analysts still qualified as a “junkyard army” at the turn of the twenty-first century, transformed…
China China’s growing naval presence in the Indian Ocean May 17, 2018 1 Written by Pradeep Taneja. Since taking power as the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of its Central Military Commission in late…
China Getting it Wrong: Chinese Strategy in the South China Sea May 15, 2018 0 Written by Peter Lorge. One of the abiding criticisms of American military policy in the post-Cold War era is that it lacks a strategy. This…
China Recent U.S. Congressional Committee Hearings on China’s Military May 14, 2018 0 Written by Bert Chapman. U.S. congressional committees play an important role in U.S. government policymaking due to their legislative, oversight, war declaration, and funding authorities…
Politics Can the KMT reinvent itself? Lessons from the past May 10, 2018 0 Written by Dafydd Fell. In a recent article I was sceptical of the Kuomintang’s (KMT) chances of taking back power at the local level in 2018 and…
South East Asia Thailand’s junta faces mounting pressure March 15, 2018 0 Written by Joshua Kurlantzick. The ruling junta in Thailand, which seized power in May 2014, has repeatedly delayed holding elections. Most recently, after promising to hold…
China Turbulence above the Taiwan Strait March 1, 2018 1 Written by Kuan-Wei Chen. The unilateral activation of the northbound M503 air route by the People’s Republic of China in January 2018 is creating turbulence over…
China Taiwan and missile defence: Current situation and future prospects February 28, 2018 2 Written by Alex Calvo. No look at Taiwan's security and defence policies, and at the balance of military power in the Strait, is complete without…