Commentary Strategic competition in the Indian Ocean: why island states matter Dr Kate O’ShaughnessyResearch Director, Perth USAsia Centre April 2025 Originally published in the Raisina Files, Dr Kate O’Shaughnessy, writes about the Indian Ocean region and how it looks much more unstable than it did only a decade ago. For the international community to engage meaningfully […]
How Australia and India can collaborate in the western Indian Ocean This article was published in an edited compendium that benefits from some remarkable scholars, including Research Director Dr Kate O’Shaughnessy, sharing their insights on areas of defence policy and activity with promise for future Australia-India cooperation. A second article by Kate, published in the […]
India’s battle over disinformation in the Indian Ocean This article was published in an edited compendium that benefits from some remarkable scholars, including Research Director Dr Kate O’Shaughnessy, sharing their insights on areas of defence policy and activity with promise for future Australia-India cooperation. A second article by Kate, published in the same series, can […]
The UK deal on Diego Garcia is positive, but it won’t reverse declining support for the rules-based order China and Russia might argue this is just another example of Western countries gaming the system to suit themselves. This article by Dr Kate O’Shaughnessy was originally published in The Interpreter by The Lowy Institute on 7 […]
Author Dr Paco Milhiet, Visiting Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore Dr Paco Milhiet holds a PhD in International Relations jointly conferred by the University of French Polynesia and the Catholic Institute of Paris. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
The View from Australia: Strategic Competition in the Indian Ocean By Dr Kate O’Shaughnessy That the Indo-Pacific region is facing unprecedented strategic uncertainty is now a core tenet of Australian foreign policy. Mostly, Australian policy makers’ attention has been on the places where those uncertainties (code for Chinese military build-up and opaque lending) are being […]
Indian Ocean Security Conference 2024 Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 February 2024 The importance of moving beyond policy buzzwords toward concrete thinking and action in support of regional interests was a key theme at the Pathfinder Foundation’s Indian Ocean Security Conference in Sri Lanka on 28-29 February. Dr Arnab Das of India’s Maritime Research Centre […]