May 24, 2011
Dr. Sungmin Cho has a new paper published by the Pacific Forum entitled "The New US Diplomacy with China: ‘Keep Your Promises’ " In his article, Cho discusses the idea of creating political division within China and its potential [...]
Launched in 2014, India’s Neighborhood First policy sought to stabilize South Asia through proximity and engagement. In this Security Nexus Perspective, DK APCSS Professor Shyam Tekwani argues that recurring “India Out” protests are not ideological rejections of cooperation but reflexive responses to proximity itself, shaped by historical memory, asymmetry, and media amplification. Drawing on cases from Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, the essay shows how India’s structural presence can generate unease that media narratives rapidly convert into external blame.
Scott Handler is a professor of cyber studies and emerging technology at the George C. Marshall Center, focusing on issues related to artificial intelligence, cyber risks to national security, international digital trade and investment, and privacy and data protection. Before joining the Marshall Center, Handler was the head of strategic process and programs at Meta, where he led operational excellence efforts for machine learning and artificial intelligence product and data operations, customer experience, and trust and safety (integrity) teams that supported the end-to-end product development lifecycle for users across the Facebook app, Instagram, Messenger, and Reality Labs products. Previously, he was vice president of strategy and partnerships and chief information security officer at WireWheel, a privacy tech company that helps organizations manage their data privacy practices.
Miles Yu, Ph.D., is one of America’s leading scholars and strategists on China, East Asia, military history, and U.S.-China relations. A professor of East Asia and military history at the United States Naval Academy since 1994, he served as the principal China policy adviser to the U.S. secretary of state on the Policy Planning staff at the State Department from 2019 to 2021. He is currently a senior fellow and director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute, a senior fellow at the Institute for Indo-Pacific Security, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Dr. Joshua Hastey is the deputy regional advisor for the Indo-Pacific region at the Department of War’s Irregular Warfare Center and part-time faculty at Regent University. His teaching and writing focus on gray zone operations and strategic competition, with an emphasis on China’s challenges in the Indo-Pacific. He is also the associate editor of PRISM: The Journal of Complex Operations.
Prof. Shyam Tekwani examines how detentions, rhetoric and cartography turn symbols into tools of territorial contestation across South Asia, escalating tensions without armed conflict.
In early December, the final Transnational Security Course (TSC 25-2) of 2025 was held in Maluhia Hall on the campus of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) in Waikiki, attracting 40 senior security practitioners from 24 countries and reuniting eight alumni with the Center. The course was an intensive, six-day program for current sector leaders, both civilian and military, on the upward track for positions of significant national and international responsibility.
India’s strategic autonomy has long been a source of national pride and a flexible diplomatic instrument. In an earlier era, it allowed New Delhi to preserve freedom of action while engaging multiple power centers. Today, however, the same posture is being reinterpreted. In a more competitive and increasingly transactional global environment, partners are looking less for declarations of independence and more for dependable alignment in moments that matter.
The Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) successfully hosted the first-ever JPME2 Indo-Pacific Orientation Course (JIPOC 25-1), a 13-week, specially designed executive education program that concluded in December 2025. This landmark effort, a collaboration between DKI APCSS, the National Defense University (NDU), and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), enhanced the capabilities of U.S. security practitioners focused on the Indo-Pacific region.
By Douglas Carroll, public affairs specialist for DKI APCSS HONOLULU — The Comprehensive Security Course (CSC) 25-3, held in late summer at The Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS), was remarkable on many [...]
Gathering regional leaders, alumni, foundation members and distinguished guests, DKI APCSS celebrated its 30th Anniversary Alumni Workshop on Sept. 17, 2025, with a commemorative dinner honoring three decades of collaboration across the Indo-Pacific.
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