The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment provides insight into key regional strategic, geopolitical, economic, military and security topics.
Among the topics explored are:
- the deteriorating US China relationship and great-power competition;
- US alliances and security partnerships;
- the collapse of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty;
- diplomatic gridlock on the Korean Peninsula;
- Japan's role in Indo-Pacific security;
- the breakdown in Japan-South Korea relations;
- Indonesian policy towards the South China Sea;
- Australia's defence and security outlook;
- the European security role in Asia.
Authors include leading regional analysts and academics Douglas Barrie, William Choong, Aaron Connelly, Andrew Davies, Michael Elleman, Bonnie S. Glaser, Euan Graham, Christopher W. Hughes, Meia Nouwens, Brendan Taylor and William Tow.
About the Author: The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is a world-leading authority on global security, political risk and military conflict. It is renowned for its annual Military Balance assessment of countries' armed forces and for its high-powered security summits, including the Shangri-La Dialogue. Its mission is to promote the adoption of sound policies to further global peace and security and maintain civilised international relations.
