Why Australia Isn’t Sending a Ship to the Red Sea

Why Australia Isn’t Sending a Ship to the Red Sea

Australia takes its international responsibilities seriously, yet as a middle power, it is limited in its resources to contribute to every aspect of insecurity. It needs to make choices based on its own interests and where it can be most helpful. This is the calculation the Australian government has made in refusing a request to … Read more

Developing Guardrails for Regional Stability: A View from the Philippines

Developing Guardrails for Regional Stability: A View from the Philippines

Advertisement Southeast Asia’s economic progress largely depends on a network of sea lines of communication (SLOCs) protected by an international legal system, largely codified in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and other maritime conventions, as well as customary international law. For this reason, the Association of Southeast Asian … Read more