1st Edition
Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2024 Key developments and trends
The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment (APRSA) examines key regional security policies and challenges relevant to the proceedings of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier defence summit convened by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). It is published and launched at the Dialogue and the issues analysed within its covers are central to discussions at the event and beyond.
This eleventh edition comes as the APRSA celebrates its first decade. A dozen IISS experts reflect on a decade of change and continuity across major security policies and challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region. Three themes materialise across six chapters: the pressure and constraints surrounding great-power competition, the enduring value of alliances and partnerships and the impact of advanced and emerging technology for regional security dynamics.
In addition to the introduction, the APRSA will now feature a special-topic chapter providing a deeper analysis of an enduring security policy and challenge. The other five chapters investigate further key dimensions of the regional security environment, supported by maps, graphs, charts and tables. The six chapters of this year’s APRSA cover the following topics:
- Combined military exercises in the Asia-Pacific
- Crisis management between the United States and China
- India’s defence partnership in the Asia-Pacific
- Diplomatic approaches to managing the Myanmar conflict
- Disinformation campaigns in the Asia-Pacific
- The Asia-Pacific air-to-air challenge
Introduction
Chapter 1: Scripted Order: Combined-military Exercises in the Asia-Pacific
Chapter 2: Middling and Muddling Through? Managing Asia-Pacific Crises
Chapter 3: Preferred Security Partner: Anchoring India in the Asia-Pacific
Chapter 4: Disparate Diplomacy: Managing the Post-coup Myanmar Conflict
Chapter 5: Driving Wedges: China’s Disinformation Campaigns in the Asia-Pacific
Chapter 6: Waiting in the Wings: The Asia-Pacific Air-to-air Challenge
Index
Biography
The International Institute for Strategic Studies is an independent centre for research, information and debate on the problems of conflict, however caused, that have, or potentially have, an important military content. The staff of the Institute is international in composition and IISS work is international in its perspective and reach. The Institute is independent and stresses rigorous fact-based research with a forward-looking policy orientation that can improve wider public understanding of international security problems and influence the development of sounder public policy, and more effective business decisions in the international arena.
