DKI APCSS Celebrates 30 Years of Indo-Pacific Security

By |2025-12-17T08:56:21-10:00December 17, 2025|Categories: Workshops/Events, news|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

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.

DKI APCSS Marks 30 Years With Alumni Workshop

By |2025-12-17T08:50:09-10:00September 26, 2025|Categories: Workshops/Events, news|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Staying connected to alumni is a key line of effort at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. The Center hosted 47 alumni from 22 locations worldwide for a four-day 30th Anniversary Alumni Workshop, held Sept. 16–19, 2025, to strengthen professional networks and explore future security challenges.

Reimagining the U.S. Defense Industrial Base for Strategic Deterrence

By |2025-12-09T13:03:38-10:00August 29, 2025|Categories: Canyon, Security Nexus, news|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Associate Dean of Academics Dr. Deon Canyon has authored a new article in Security Nexus titled “Adaptive Power Helps the U.S. Defense Industrial Base Become a Tool of Deterrence.” His paper argues that as strategic competition with China intensifies, the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (DIB) must shift from a reactive supplier to a proactive tool of deterrence and influence. Using the Adaptive Power framework, the article reimagines the DIB as a sovereignty-aligned asset that supports U.S. strategic objectives through five operational pillars: timing, context, legitimacy, modularity, and learning.

Future Security Leaders Convene in Ottawa to Confront China’s Hybrid Warfare

By |2025-12-09T13:04:00-10:00July 11, 2025|Categories: Workshops/Events, news|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

OTTAWA, Canada — The Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Global Affairs Canada, the Canadian Department of National Defence, the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, hosted a workshop on China’s hybrid warfare strategies July 7–11. Held in Ottawa, the five-day event convened emerging leaders from the Indo-Pacific, the Americas, and Europe to explore economic coercion, cyber threats and strategic risks to the defense industrial base. Participants engaged in scenario planning, strategic analysis and peer-to-peer exchanges to better understand the multilayered and multidomain tactics employed by China.

DKI APCSS Returns to Washington for Mobile Indo-Pacific Orientation Course

By |2025-12-09T13:03:17-10:00April 1, 2025|Categories: Courses, news|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

WASHINGTON — After an eight-year hiatus, the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies returned to the nation’s capital to host the Mobile Indo-Pacific Orientation Course (MIPOC) from March 24 to 28, 2025. The event, the largest MIPOC to date, brought together 116 fellows from agencies including the Departments of Defense, State, and Homeland Security. Among them were 20 international participants representing 12 countries.

Myanmar’s U-turn: Implications of the Military Coup on Strategic Competition in the Indo-Pacific

By |2025-12-09T13:03:21-10:00January 4, 2022|Categories: Publications, Byrd, news|Tags: , , |

Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd has a new article in the Journal for Indo-Pacific Affairs titled: "Myanmar’s U-turn: Implications of the Military Coup on Strategic Competition in the Indo-Pacific. " The article discusses the current crisis in Myanmar and China’s [...]

Military and Private Sector HADR – Now a Sophisticated Tool for Strategic Competition

By |2025-12-09T13:03:21-10:00September 1, 2021|Categories: Canyon, Security Nexus, news|Tags: , |

“Military and Private Sector HADR – Now a Sophisticated Tool for Strategic Competition,” is the title of a paper by Drs. Deon Canyon and Benjamin Ryan, for Security Nexus. This paper illustrates how humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) [...]

Religion in a Values-Based Approach to Strategic Competition

By |2025-12-09T13:03:22-10:00October 14, 2020|Categories: Oehlers, Security Nexus, news|Tags: , |

“Religion in a Values-Based Approach to Strategic Competition” is the title of a paper written by DKI APCSS professor Dr. Alfred Oehlers for Security Nexus. This article asks the question “Can we bring religious faiths and beliefs to bear [...]

Strategic Competition: Why Pakistan Matters

By |2025-12-09T13:03:23-10:00July 15, 2020|Categories: Security Nexus, news|Tags: , , , |

“Strategic Competition: Why Pakistan Matters,” is the title of an OpEd written by Dr. Saira Yamin for Security Nexus. This paper emphasizes the importance of the U.S. maintaining a strong relationship with Pakistan as strategic competition with China intensifies. [...]

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