Asia and the Pacific
Covering the region from Afghanistan to Australia we consider the economic, political, and military developments and their impact on global geopolitics and security, with the rising dominance of China and the nuclear threat posed by North Korea.
Countries and groups covered in this region
Our experts
Joe Byrne
Former RUSI Research Fellow
Jack Crawford
Research Fellow
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Tom Keatinge
Director, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Dr Neil Melvin
Director, International Security
International Security
Wojciech Pawlus
Outreach and Implementation Manager
Centre for Finance and Security
Chandana Seshadri
Research Analyst, Counter Proliferation Financing
Centre for Finance and Security
Dr Philip Shetler-Jones
Senior Research Fellow, Indo-Pacific Security
International Security
Gary Somerville
Former RUSI Research Fellow
Ino Terzi
Research Analyst
Emily Winterbotham
Director of Terrorism and Conflict Studies
Terrorism and Conflict
Fellows
Dr Aaron Arnold
Senior Associate Fellow; Former member of the UN Panel of Experts for DPRK sanctions
Centre for Finance and Security
Andrea Berger
Associate Fellow
Dr Stephan Blancke
RUSI Associate Fellow
The Rt. Hon. Alistair Burt
Distinguished Fellow
Andrew Cainey
Senior Associate Fellow; Founding Director of the UK National Committee on China
Simon Chelton
Associate Fellow; Independent Consultant
Emil Dall
Associate Fellow; Sanctions Lead at FINTRAIL
Catherine Dill
Associate Fellow
The Hon. Alexander Downer AC
Distinguished Fellow
Dr Bates Gill
Senior Associate Fellow; Professor of Asia-Pacific Security Studies at Macquarie University, Australia
Dr Myong-Hyun Go
Associate Fellow; Senior Research Fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Seoul, Korea
Dr Jürgen Haacke
Associate Fellow; Associate Professor in International Relations at LSE
Benedict Hamlyn
Associate Fellow
Dr Sari Arho Havrén
Associate Fellow - Specialist in China’s foreign relations
Dr Ashley Hess
Associate Fellow
Isabel Hilton OBE
Senior Associate Fellow
Professor Christopher Hughes
Senior Associate Fellow
Professor William Hurst
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow
Kayla Izenman
Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Research Fellow, RUSI
Paulina Izewicz
Associate Fellow
Walter Ladwig
Associate Fellow; Senior Lecturer in International Relations, War Studies at KCL
Professor David Lewis
Senior Associate Fellow; Professor of Global Politics, University of Exeter
Erin Lubowicz
Associate Fellow
Clovis Meath Baker CMG OBE
Associate Fellow
Dr Orzala Nemat
Senior Associate Fellow
Catherine Nettleton CMG OBE
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow
Allison Owen
Associate Fellow - Expert in cryptocurrency and counter-proliferation finance
Raffaello Pantucci
Senior Associate Fellow
Charles Parton OBE
Senior Associate Fellow
Professor Alessio Patalano
Senior Associate Fellow; Professor of War and Strategy in East Asia, War Studies, KCL
Tom Plant
Senior Associate Fellow
Dr Samuel Ramani
Associate Fellow; Tutor of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Jonathan Rugman
Senior Associate Fellow
Henry Sanderson
Associate Fellow
Juan Pablo Toro
Senior Associate Fellow; Executive Director of AthenaLab, Chile
Cristina Varriale
Associate Fellow
Tim Willasey-Wilsey CMG
Senior Associate Fellow
Amy Woolf
Senior Associate Fellow