Indo-Pacific Outlook. Strategic competition in the India Ocean: why island states matter Dr Kate O’ShaugnessyResearch director, Perth USAsia Centre March 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 […]
Indo-Pacific Outlook. How Australia and India can collaborate in the western Indian Ocean Dr Kate O’ShaugnessyResearch director, Perth USAsia Centre Originally published with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute 9 May 2023 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 […]
Indo-Pacific Outlook. India’s battle over disinformation in the Indian Ocean Dr Kate O’ShaugnessyResearch director, Perth USAsia Centre Originally published with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute 3 May 2023 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 […]
Explainer Series Indo-Pacific Explainer:The Chagos dispute On 3 October 2024, the UK government announced it will cede sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius, ending an almost 60-year dispute between the two countries. Significantly, the deal includes the island of Diego Garcia, home to an important US military base in the middle of the Indian […]
Emerging Voices Volume 3 Financing a sustainable ocean economy: lessons from Seychelles August 2024 Angelique Pouponneau is a lawyer in the Seychelles, PhD candidate at the University of Malta, Islands and Small States Institute, and Senior Associate at the University of New South Wales Centre for Sustainable Development Reform. She holds an LLM in Environmental […]
Indo-Pacific Analysis Brief Vol 46 The French Indian Ocean Overseas Collectivities in France’s Indo-Pacific Strategy August 2024Paco Milhiet 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), […]
Emerging Voices Volume 2 Addressing gaps in Indonesia’s engagement in the Indian Ocean July 2024 Aristyo Rizka Darmawan is a PhD Scholar at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at The Australian National University. He is also a lecturer in international law at the Universitas Indonesia and a former Visiting Fellow with the S. […]
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 […]
Explainer Series Why is the Indian Ocean geostrategically important? February 2024 Dr Kate O’Shaughnessy brings to the Centre an academic background in Indonesian language and history, along with 16 years’ experience with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Her public sector experience spans providing policy advice to government on Australia’s interests in the Indian […]