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by Dr. Jimmie R. Lackey, who was then an Army colonel, and is a former DKI APCSS executive director. The Center was renamed on February 2015 to Honor the late Senator, Daniel K. Inouye.
Our Team
Our team is a dedicated group of professionals committed to enhancing regional security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. Comprised of military, diplomatic, and academic experts, the team works collaboratively to address contemporary security challenges. Through education, dialogue, and research, the DKI APCSS team fosters mutual understanding and strengthens partnerships among nations.
News
Security Nexus Perspective – The Sovereignty Calculus: An Access, Basing, and Overflight Decision Framework for Hedging States
Dr. Deon Canyon presents a detailed framework for evaluating sovereignty costs in Access, Basing, and Overflight (ABO) agreements in his latest Security Nexus Perspective.
Strategic Voices Episode 3: The Indo-Pacific’s New Architecture: Disruption, Division, Competition
The Indo-Pacific is not becoming unstable by accident. Across the region, a series of overlapping shocks—from the fragile connectivity of undersea data cables to the rapid acceleration of dual-use technologies—is reshaping how states assess security, resilience, and cooperation. The era of episodic crisis is over. We have entered a period in which instability is structural, access is conditional, and competition is the primary mode of strategic positioning.
Join us for Episode 4 of Strategic Voices – Critical Minerals: Who Sets the Price?
Strategic Voices examines the forces unsettling the Indo-Pacific security environment and asks whether today’s instability signals a passing storm or a lasting strategic realignment.
Security Nexus Perspective: In This Ocean, Small States Learn to Speak
Explore how small island states like Mauritius and the Maldives are reshaping Indian Ocean geopolitics through sovereignty disputes over the Chagos Archipelago, challenging great-power dynamics and asserting their agency.
Security Nexus Perspective: Cognitive Domain Awareness: A Framework for Partners Already Inside the Cognitive War
Explore the Cognitive Domain Awareness framework, a strategic approach for Indo-Pacific partners to counter China's cognitive operations targeting perceptions, decisions, and alliances in the ongoing cognitive war.
The stories posted here are only excerpts. Please go to our website to read the full articles.
apcss.org/latest-news
Dr. Deon K. Canyon
(Mission Partner)
(Executive Agent)
Maj. Gen (Ret.), U.S. Army
Suzanne Vares-Lum
Col. (Ret.), U.S. Army
Russell Bailey
Dr. Lori Forman
Col. Matthew R. Kent
& Business Ops
Capt. (Ret.) U.S. Navy
Wade Turvold
Security Studies (CSS)
Capt. (Ret.) U.S. Navy
Carleton Cramer
& Business Ops
Col. Jeffrey Digsby
shared understanding, and networked relationships among civilian and military practitioners and institutions to advance a free and open Indo-Pacific.
- Office of the Secretary
of Defense (Policy) - Joint Staff
- Service HQs
- Defense Security
Cooperation Agency - Regional Centers
- US Indo-Pacific Command
- Component Commands
- Other Subordinate Commands
- National Security Council
- Dept. of Homeland Security
- US Coast Guard
- Dept. of State
-Embassies
-U.S. Agency for
International Development
- Universities
- National Defense/
Diplomatic Academies - Research Centers
- Think Tanks
& National
Institutions
- Northeast Asia
- Southeast Asia
- South Asia
- Oceania
- The Americas
- And Beyond…
Institutions
& International
Organizations
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
- South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
- Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)
- Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic
- Cooperation (BIMSTEC)
- United Nations, International Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations
a Free and Open Indo-Pacific
Regional Architectures
of China
Consequence
the Indo-Pacific, and globally,
is strengthened
traditional and nontraditional
security challenges
is increased
designed to be
routinely measured
and assessed
ADMM+
ASEAN Chair Preparation
Additional OSD IPSA Directed Activities
Security, Counterterrorism, Information Security,
Strategic Studies, Economics, & Crisis Management
Concentrations Regional & Functional Cohorts
Regional senior leader networks
Strategic Objectives
FY24-25 Priorities
Shared Understanding
Network Relationship
The Commission of the Council on Occupational Education (COE) granted accreditation to the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies on September 16, 2021.
