In his latest Security Nexus Perspective, Maj. Takashi Okamoto, U.S. Marine Corps, operations officer at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies’ College of Security Studies, examines Japan’s strategic shift under the Takaichi Doctrine, which transforms industrial...... Read more...

HONOLULU — April 28, 2026 Click here to watch on YouTube. The Indo-Pacific is not short on dialogue. Across the region, coordination is constant—through conferences, working groups, bilateral engagements, and multilateral forums. Yet a harder question persists: Why do aligned partners still... Read more...

The Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies connected with its Washington, D.C.-based alumni network during an April 9 event, bringing together more than 60 U.S. and international graduates. The gathering included more than 40 U.S. and 20 international alumni. Among the...... Read more...

Dr. Deon Canyon, associate dean of academics and professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, examines the long-term effects of refusing Access, Basing, and Overflight (ABO) agreements in a new Security Nexus Perspective. The paper argues that while refusal may... Read more...

In an era where regional stability is tested in moments of stress, the gap between dialogue and action has never been more consequential. DKI APCSS Director Suzy Vares-Lum joins Dialogue to examine how institutions turn engagement into coordinated decisions—and what it takes to build cooperation... Read more...

We are pleased to highlight a new publication by our DKI APCSS alumna, Camilla Unsgaard, co-authored with partners from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Canada office and the Swedish Defence University. Titled "Disinformation in the Transatlantic Arctic", the publication examines how misinformation and... Read more...

n her latest Security Nexus Perspective, DKI APCSS Professor Andrea Malji explores how China’s growing influence in Latin America and the Caribbean impacts Indo-Pacific dynamics. By leveraging economic investments, infrastructure projects, and diplomatic engagement, China is expanding its global... Read more...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — In late February, a team from the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, led by Deputy Director Russell Bailey, traveled to Indonesia to engage with key U.S. Embassy officials, senior Indonesian defese and security leaders, and DKI APCSS alumni — an... Read more...

DKI APCSS Professor Shyam Tekwani  draws a compelling parallel between Europe’s nineteenth-century potato dependency and the Indo-Pacific’s growing reliance on critical minerals in his latest Security Nexus Perspective, “The Potato Logic of Power.” Through the lens of history,...... Read more...

  Video of Strategic Voices Ep 4: Critical Minerals   Honolulu, Hawaii — March 24, 2026 Modern power depends on materials most people never see. Critical minerals and rare earth elements (REEs) underpin advanced defense manufacturing, semiconductors, batteries, precision guidance... Read more...

Video of Strategic Voices Ep 3: The Indo-Pacific’s New Architecture: Disruption, Division, Competition Honolulu, Hawaii — March 6, 2026 The Indo-Pacific is not becoming unstable by accident. Across the region, a series of overlapping shocks—from the fragile connectivity of undersea data...... Read more...

DKI APCSS Professor Shyam Tekwani explores the evolving role of small island states in Indian Ocean geopolitics in his latest Security Nexus Perspective, “In This Ocean, Small States Learn to Speak.” Focusing on the sovereignty dispute over the Chagos Archipelago, Tekwani highlights how... Read more...