Post-Ladakh Militarization: A Permanent Shift in Asian Security - Stratheia India–China tensions reshape border strategy as militarization rises despite disengagement, creating a “New Normal” of stable confrontation.

Disengagement agreements lowered immediate tensions, but strategic rivalry continues. Infrastructure, troops, and surveillance expansion show both sides preparing for long-term competition.
#Geopolitics #MilitaryBuildUp #AsianSecurity
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Hybrid warfare has become the new normal in South and East Asia, where cyber, information, and economic tools now shape security outcomes.
#HybridWarfare #AsianSecurity #Geopolitics
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I am really pleased to join the editorial team at #AsianSecurity, joining Amy Freedman, Andrew Oros, Chin-Hao Huang, and Lionel Fatton. The journal aims to be "the foremost journal on all aspects of national and international security in Asia". www.tandfonline.com/journals/fas...

Now available! It includes the cover of Andrew L. Oros's Asia's Aging Security: How Demographic Change Affects America's Allies and Adversaries. It includes a blurb by Satu Limaye and offers a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

Now Available! Rigorous and timely, ASIA’S AGING SECURITY makes a forceful case that adjustment to demographic change is a necessity for twenty-first-century foreign policy. buff.ly/3oUPctS #Aging #AsianSecurity

China’s Grey Zone Tactics against Taiwan, Philippines Dyad - Stratheia China’s Grey Zone Tactics in the South China Sea challenge norms with hybrid aggression, blurring war-peace boundaries.

Beijing’s “peaceful rise” masks coercive ambitions. Grey Zone Tactics in the South China Sea are redefining modern conflict.
#ChinaPolicy #AsianSecurity #HybridWarfare
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Japan Considering Naming its GCAP Fighter After the WW2-Era A7M ‘Reppu’: Reports The A7M Reppu (Strong Gale) was conceived to succeed the legendary A6M Zero, but it never flew. Reports from Japan, quoting defense officials in deep

"Strong Gale" seems fighter appropriate, but naming the F-3 after a successor to the Zero that never went beyond prototyping strikes me as somehow inauspicious... #AsianSecurity theaviationist.com/2025/05/03/j...

Space in the international relations of Asia: a guide to technology, security, and diplomacy in a strategic domain This essay brings space into the international relations of Asia. It orients readers to three unfolding trends that are shaping the evolution of the new space race at present – democratization, com...

Check out this new special issue of Asian Security edited by Professor Saadia Pekkanen on space in the international relations of Asia!
Lots of fascinating contributions!
#SpacePolicy #AsianSecurity #InternationalRelations
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