May 24, 2011
The DKI APCSS team, led by Deputy Director Russell Bailey, visited Indonesia to engage with U.S. Embassy officials, Indonesian defense leaders, and alumni, fostering collaboration and advancing Indo-Pacific security through education and professional networks.
With a global network of over 16,000 alumni, maintaining relationships and encouraging their growth are vital elements of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies mission. It was fitting that a team from the Center, led by Lori Forman, Senior Professor for Enabling Partnerships, departed Honolulu on Valentine’s Day for a week of engagements with alumni and leadership from one of the United States' closest allies – the Philippines.
Shyam Tekwani draws a compelling parallel between Europe's nineteenth-century potato dependency and the Indo-Pacific's growing reliance on critical minerals in his latest Security Nexus Perspective, "The Potato Logic of Power."
Dr. Deon Canyon presents a detailed framework for evaluating sovereignty costs in Access, Basing, and Overflight (ABO) agreements in his latest Security Nexus Perspective.
Modern power depends on materials most people never see. Critical minerals and rare earth elements (REEs) underpin advanced defense manufacturing, semiconductors, batteries, precision guidance systems, and secure communications infrastructure. They are invisible sinews of economic strength and military capability. Yet their importance is often misunderstood. The strategic question is not simply who possesses these resources. It is who controls the system through which they are processed, priced, and delivered. In a world of “just-in-time” efficiency, that distinction has become a matter of strategic consequences.
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.
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.
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.
Discover how epistemic wargaming, introduced by Dr. Deon Canyon, serves as a diagnostic tool to address strategic miscalculation in gray-zone competition by revealing institutional blind spots and attention allocation failures.
In the Indo-Pacific, instability rarely remains contained. When a state loses its monopoly on violence, when political legitimacy collapses, and when illicit economies fill the vacuum, conflict becomes a regional security problem—exporting risk through transnational crime, coercive leverage, and border instability.
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