Senior Adviser, Asialink
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The ASEAN-Australia leaders’ summit in Melbourne offers the opportunity for Australia to embrace ASEAN’s ‘inclusive regionalism’ and the centrality of ASEAN in mediating the Indo-Pacific struggle between the great powers.
Engagement with Asia is a tradition going back to Alfred Deakin. AUKUS is a good reason to double down on relationships in the region again, write Sid Myer and Anthony Milner.
In this conclusion to a series of articles on the rules based order, the co-chairs of the Australian committee of CSCAP Tony Milner and Ric Smith assess the contributions of regional commentators and argue Australia must listen to, and heed, differences of opinion in Asia if any reform of the rules is to succeed.
In justifying a big increase in defence spending last year, the Prime Minister turned to the turbulent experience of the 1930s. But as Asialink International Director, Prof. Tony Milner writes, a closer examination of history poses some unexpected questions about how Australia should manage strategic uncertainty.
Must we talk only about the U.S. and China? Have other states in our region no agency? Are there no positive scenarios? Tony Milner and Astanah Abdul Aziz have identified some optimism regarding a possible regional role for ASEAN.