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Many topical policy issues and regions are central to the programme's research agenda. These include China and Japan, nuclearisation in the Korean peninsula, and terrorism and insurgency in Central and South Asia.
In particular, the project works to build links between policy-makers and practitioners in Britain and their counterparts across Asia, and to provide a meeting place for Asian policy-makers to confer and discuss security issues together.
Experts also regularly advise and consult businesses on security risks across Asia's regions and markets.
Contacts
Indonesia's Forest Fires: Igniting Tensions in Southeast Asia
Newsbrief, 22 January 2016
Malcolm C K Soh and Kelvin S-H Peh
Jakarta’s failure to tackle illegal burning is threatening its relations with its neighbours
Tags: Defence Management, Asia, Pacific
Should the West Embrace the AIIB?
Newsbrief, 22 January 2016
Nikki Lee
Is the AIIB just a new foreign-policy tool for China, or is it necessary for regional development and a project the West should welcome?
Tags: Defence Policy, Asia, Pacific
2016 Year Ahead
Commentary, 17 December 2015
RUSI's experts share their predictions for the year ahead in 2016
Tags: China, UK Defence Policy, Terrorism, Defence Policy, UK, Asia, Global Security Issues, Organised Crime, Terrorism, UK Defence, Europe, Pacific
2016 Year Ahead: Global Security in 2016
Multimedia, 17 December 2015
Tags: China, International Security Studies, Terrorism, Asia, Terrorism, Pacific, Middle East and North Africa
Modi in Britain: How Does a Rising India View the UK?
Commentary, 12 November 2015
Shashank Joshi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UK this week will be the first visit by an Indian leader in almost a decade – despite David Cameron travelling thrice in the other direction. Is the UK–India relationship as healthy as it was?
Tags: India, UK, Asia, Europe, Central and South Asia
The Xiangshan Forum and Asia’s ‘New Security Architecture’
Commentary, 27 October 2015
Edward Schwarck
While touted as an alternative to the Shangri-La Dialogue, the Xiangshan has failed to tackle the issues at the heart of East Asian tensions.
Tags: China, International Security Studies, Asia, Global Security Issues, Central and South AsiaPages
Modi in Britain: How Does a Rising India View the UK?
Commentary, 12 November 2015Shashank Joshi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UK this week will be the first visit by an Indian leader in almost a decade – despite David Cameron travelling thrice in the other direction. Is the UK–India relationship as healthy as it was?
India, UK, Asia, Europe, Central and South Asia
The Xiangshan Forum and Asia’s ‘New Security Architecture’
Commentary, 27 October 2015Edward Schwarck
While touted as an alternative to the Shangri-La Dialogue, the Xiangshan has failed to tackle the issues at the heart of East Asian tensions.
China, International Security Studies, Asia, Global Security Issues, Central and South Asia
China’s Stock Market Crash Threatens Her Global Power Ambitions
Commentary, 27 August 2015Jonathan Eyal
China’s stock market crash is not the beginning of a global economic downturn, or the start of a Chinese recession. But it is a reminder of just how fragile China remains, and how far it still is from the status of a global power.
China, Global Strategy and Commitments, International Security Studies, Asia, Global Security Issues, Pacific
The US-China relationship: on a downward spiral?
Commentary, 29 June 2015Edward Schwarck
Officials from the US and China put on brave faces at the recently concluded US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. Tensions in the maritime and cyber realms, however, are threatening to send the relationship into a downward spiral.
China, Cyber, United States, Americas, Cyber Security, Global Strategy and Commitments, International Security Studies, Asia, Maritime Forces, Technology, Pacific
Afghanistan Regional Stability: The Role of Chinese and Indian Cooperation
Commentary, 24 June 2015Over the past three years, RUSI has conducted a research project bringing together influential thinkers from China, India, the UK and Afghanistan in a number of workshops in Beijing, New Delhi and Qatar. The aim was to outline areas of common interest between China and India in Afghanistan. As part of this project, we asked Indian and Chinese researchers to offer their perspectives on where Delhi...
China, Afghanistan, India, Global Strategy and Commitments, International Security Studies, Asia, Pacific, Central and South AsiaPages
Mafia State: The Evolving Threat of North Korean Narcotics Trafficking
RUSI Journal, 4 November 2014Peng Wang and Stephan Blancke
The burgeoning illicit-drugs trade emanating from North Korea poses a severe threat to the region and beyond
RUSI Journal, North Korea, Asia, Global Security Issues, Organised Crime, Organised Crime, Pacific
Why China is Not a Global Power
RUSI Journal, 4 November 2014Andrew T H Tan
China has neither the soft-power attributes nor the clearly articulated foreign policy necessary to become a genuinely global power
China, RUSI Journal, Asia, International Institutions, Pacific
Afghan Local Police in Helmand: Calculated Risk or Last Gamble?
RUSI Journal, 1 March 2013Michael Stevens
As the 2014 deadline approaches, British and US mentors continue to work to strengthen the Afghan Local Police. The ultimate outcome remains balanced precariously between success and failure.
RUSI Journal, Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, Asia, Terrorism
Missile Defence in a New Strategic Environment (WHP 60)
Whitehall Papers, 31 August 2003Jeremy Stocker and David Wiencek (editors)
This Whitehall Paper brings together wide-ranging perspectives on the post-ABM Treaty missile defence debate: the policies in the UK, US, EU, NATO, Japan and Taiwan, among others, and the scientific...
Aerospace, Air Power and Technology, United States, Whitehall Papers, Japan, NATO, Americas, European Union, Military Sciences, UK, Asia, Global Security Issues, International Institutions, Europe, Pacific
India's New Armament Strategy: a return to self-sufficiency? (WHP 31)
Whitehall Papers, 2 January 1995Damon Bristow
Whitehall Papers, India, Defence Policy, Asia, Central and South Asia
Stabilising Pakistan’s Relations with the Gulf
Vostok - 2018
Eritrea and Ethiopia Embrace, But For How Long?