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India’s domestic manufacturing amidst COVID-19

Written by Akhil Bery

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ahead of the 2024 general elections, the Indian government needs to focus its efforts on job creation.

In Brief: David Hutt and Dr Lucas Knotter, our new associate editors

9DL recently welcomed David Hutt and Dr Lucas Knotter to our team as our new associate editors. Our Editor-in-Chief, Dr Manali Kumar, recently sat down with them to learn more about their work and plans to help take the platform forward.

Shouldn’t we just close all Confucius Institutes?

Written by Matthias Niedenführ

The West must ask itself serious questions about its desired relationship with China but a blanket closure of Confucius Institutes seems a politically expedient knee jerk reaction.

Announcing webinar

Together with Taiwan NextGen Foundation and Korean Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, we are delighted to announce our upcoming webinar designed to examine the domestic and international implications of Korea's recent presidential election.

Cope North 2022: Deepening security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific

Written by Bec Strating

Both the 2022 Cope North exercise and the Tonga example highlight concerns that hard and soft security are not so easily distinguishable.

Trade in the new Indo-Pacific: Moving towards gender inclusivity and openness

Written by Aditi Mukund and Sanya Saroha

Policymakers across the Asia-Pacific region must work towards adopting gender mainstreaming principles. A feminist perspective, which advocates for including all marginalised groups, is necessary for fully transformative outcomes in the Indo-Pacific’s future, and an economic recovery must make provisions for women as stakeholders.

Russia, China and their search for great power identity

Written by Anisa Heritage

A consequence of Putin’s actions against Ukraine is the strengthening of Taiwanese identity and the intensification of their already strong desire to be separate from mainland China.

What are the regional security implications of Indonesia’s capital relocation?

Written by Ahmad Rizky M. Umar

While Indonesia’s capital relocation is mostly related to the country’s domestic development priorities, it carries regional security implications that must be addressed as tensions in the Indo-Pacific region increase.

China's IUU fishing fleet a growing threat to global food security

Written by Joseph Hammond

Perhaps most importantly, more effort should be put into enhancing the enforcement and naval capabilities of states involved where significant IUU fishing is present from Africa to the South Pacific.

China’s role in the Serbian 2022 elections campaign

Written by Stefan Vladisavljev

Environmental consequences, rising levels of public debt, and labour treatment concerns must be addressed in accordance with the domestic legislative framework. If not, deepening relations with China could derail Serbia from the path of European integration.

ASEAN leads the Indo-Pacific climate response

Written by Clare Richardson-Barlow

The Indo-Pacific region includes several of the world’s largest polluters as well as leaders in renewable energy use and innovative policy solutions to climate and environmental challenges. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) presents great potential for regional responses to the global climate change challenge.

Nonalignment’s long shadow: India and the Ukraine crisis

Written by Rohan Mukherjee

The political relationship between India and Russia is unlikely to suffer greatly. Indeed, it will remain an asset if India is to avert the terminal decline and collapse of Russia, which would make it an unviable pole in India’s preferred multipolar world order.

Evolution, not revolution, will define Yoon’s foreign policy

Written by Ramon Pacheco Pardo

As for Yoon’s approach toward the Indo-Pacific, we can expect Yoon to seek to boost security cooperation with the US — above all — Australia, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Europe to contain China’s behaviour in the region.

Sri Lanka’s national economic crisis and its impact on foreign relations with China

Written by Rajni Gamage

Sri Lanka’s latest national economic crisis is also triggering a crisis in its foreign policy. The country’s government is compelled to diversify its foreign policy engagement in order to manage its relatively large foreign debt.

Ukraine: Don’t write off the international order — read and rewrite it

Written by Fleur Johns and Anastasiya Kotova

Whatever the “rules-based international order” looks like after this horrifying war, it will have been active throughout in more ways than are commonly acknowledged and will have shown itself more open to redistributive change than some would have had us believe.

Women’s participation in peace and security: Why it matters

Written by Julia Strasheim

The debate on how women get to participate in matters of international peace and security is both a timely and a relevant one. While there has been improvement, continue to be woefully underrepresented in the peace and security domain.

With ASEAN Snub, Myanmar junta signals return to Cold War isolationism

Written by Hunter Marston

The junta knows it needs the support of Moscow and Beijing in the UN Security Council to prevent international action such as an arms embargo, which has failed to pass given their veto powers.

Scholz’s €100 billion surprise: A paradigm shift in Germany’s security policy?

Written by Christiane Heidbrink

Due to the complexity of weapon systems and personnel requirements, a financial injection alone is not enough to solve the Bundeswehr’s structural challenges. Consequently, the one-time sum of €100 billion does not represent a militarisation trend but a necessary investment to plug serious holes in its equipment.