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Vares-Lum Strengthens Indo-Pacific Partnerships on First Regional Trip as DKI APCSS Director

By |2025-06-18T11:55:01-10:00June 18, 2025|Categories: Courses, news|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

DKI APCSS Director Suzanne Vares-Lum completed her first Indo-Pacific trip, reinforcing U.S. partnerships in Malaysia, Singapore, and Japan through high-level meetings and regional collaboration initiatives.

Comprehensive Security Cooperation Course 25-2: The First Step Toward Contribution Is Understanding

By |2025-06-17T13:40:31-10:00June 17, 2025|Categories: Courses, news|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

DKI APCSS graduated 100 Fellows from its second Comprehensive Security Course of 2025, building international collaboration and resilience to Indo-Pacific security challenges through expert insights and strategic dialogue.

Dialogue | Episode 45: A Conversation with Eric Olander China and the Indo-Pacific Global South

By |2025-06-10T10:42:28-10:00June 9, 2025|Categories: Minnich, news, Dialogue Podcast|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

In today’s Indo-Pacific, China’s engagement with the Global South is no longer a future possibility—it is a lived reality reshaping influence, investment, and the rules of the international order. Episode 45 of Dialogue features a timely exchange with Eric Olander, Editor-in-Chief of the China Global South Project. With grounded clarity, Olander analyzes China’s expanding presence across the region—its recalibrated Belt and Road strategy, contested resource ambitions, digital influence campaigns, and the growing agency of Indo-Pacific nations navigating these dynamics.

New Security Nexus Paper Examines Industrial Deterrence in South Asia

By |2025-06-06T16:43:31-10:00June 6, 2025|Categories: Tekwani, Security Nexus, news|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

A new Security Nexus paper by Shyam Tekwani, titled “War in South Asia Is a Wake-Up Call: Achieving Peace Through Strength in an Age of Industrial Deterrence,” explores how a brief but intense conflict between India and Pakistan served as a powerful stress test for South Asia’s defense-industrial landscape. The paper draws on real-world capabilities and scenario-based vignettes to analyze how deterrence today is shaped not just by platforms, but by performance—supply chains, maintenance cycles, co-production, and delivery speed.

DKI APCSS Faculty Contribute to Strategic Religious Partnership Training

By |2025-06-06T10:13:48-10:00June 6, 2025|Categories: news, Engagements|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Two faculty members from the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies recently participated in Strategic Religious Partnership Training-25, hosted by U.S. Army Pacific Chaplains and the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps. The event was held in April at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe. In preparation for the training, the Army chaplains published a magazine featuring contributions from both faculty members. Dr. Andrea Malji authored an article titled “The Significance of Religion in the Pacific and the Strategic Role of Military Chaplaincy,” while Dr. Al Oehlers wrote “Religion in a Values-Based Approach to Strategic Competition.”

Dialogue | Episode 43: South Asia’s Strategic Forge

By |2025-05-29T10:50:09-10:00May 26, 2025|Categories: Minnich, news, webinar, Dialogue Podcast|Tags: , , |

Unpacking South Asia’s strategic realignment: India’s choices, Pakistan’s pivots, and the rising defense ambitions across the region. This episode explores how the U.S. can engage smartly, foster industrial cooperation, and secure its interests amid intensifying great power competition.

Karakoa Forum Launched in Manila

By |2025-06-04T09:07:40-10:00May 23, 2025|Categories: Workshops/Events, news|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of National Defense (DND) and the National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP) hosted a two-day Karakoa Forum in Manila on April 25 and 28, 2025, in partnership with the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS). A team of five DKI APCSS faculty members — Dr. Ginnie Watson, Professor Mike Burgoyne, Dr. Sam Mullins, Col. Matt Kent, and Maj. Kyle Brown — traveled to the Philippines at the invitation of the government to support the launch of the inaugural forum.

Regional Tensions Emerge as Bangladesh Moves Closer to Pakistan, Explored in new Security Nexus Paper

By |2025-05-19T10:52:19-10:00May 15, 2025|Categories: Security Nexus, news, Sitaraman|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

A new Security Nexus perspective by Dr. Srini Sitaraman (DKI APCSS) and Ms. Anuttama Banerji (National Maritime Foundation) examines the rapid political and strategic realignment in South Asia following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh. Titled “India-Bangladesh Water Issues Reappear as Bangladesh-Pakistan Relations Rapidly Progress,” the paper explores the implications of renewed Pakistan-Bangladesh ties—including defense cooperation and trade—on India’s regional influence and water-sharing disputes.

Security Nexus Perspective Warns of Growing Risk in the Eastern Himalayas

By |2025-05-29T10:22:55-10:00May 9, 2025|Categories: Tekwani, Security Nexus, news|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Security Nexus perspective, “Where Maps Blur and Rivers Speak: China, India, and the Contest for the Eastern Himalayas,” by Shyam Tekwani, explores a rising flashpoint in South Asia where geopolitics, geography, and water security converge. As India suspends the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, this piece shifts focus eastward to the tri-junction of India, China, and Bhutan—a region marked by contested borders, spiritual significance, and increasingly fragile stability. Tekwani highlights the strategic importance of Arunachal Pradesh, where infrastructure build-up, unresolved territorial claims, and water disputes heighten the risk of conflict without warning or reliable de-escalation mechanisms.

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