While attending APCSS courses, Fellows are required to complete a Fellows Project which may be done as a presentation, research paper or policy brief. APCSS is now making these papers available on line with our new "Alumni Perspectives" publications. "Engagement of Malaysia and Indonesia on Counterinsurgency in the South of Thailand," is a paper by a recent graduate of the Advanced Security Cooperation course (ASC 15-1), Ms. Wassana Nanuam. She is a journalist with the Bangkok Post who writes on local and regional political and military issues. "Engagement of Malaysia and Indonesia on Counterinsurgency in the South of Thailand," is now [...]

The APCSS Regional Security Studies Internship Program brings to the Center graduate and undergraduate students from around the world to assist and participate in APCSS courses. Amanda Lamothe-Cadet served as a Regional Security Studies Intern in the summer of 2014 and recently completed a paper entitled “A Relationship of Convenience: The Russo-Chinese Strategic Partnership” as part of our Alumni Perspectives program.   In this paper she discusses how Russia and China have developed a rather unique strategic partnership, largely predicated upon deepening their economic ties and criticizing the West, as well as underlying issues that may complicate this relationship. The paper is [...]