ISDP Voices

The formation of the trilateral security partnership AUKUS and the subsequent cancellation of a billion-dollar submarine deal – also described as the “contract of the century” – has changed the dynamics of France’s relations with Australia, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). The situation, described as a betrayal and a “stab in […]

Since the release of the Integrated Review in March 2021 outlining the United Kingdom’s strategy with regards to the shifting centre of geo-political tensions – the ‘tilt’ to the Indo-Pacific – London has ramped up defence cooperation with like-minded partners. Strengthening the UK’s outreach through security and defence planning, particularly by deepening engagement with regional […]

Digital currencies, such as central bank digital currency (CBDC), electronic money, and cryptocurrency, have strategic implications for Japan’s economic security which could be inevitably influenced and conditioned by the changing global security environment. In this globalized world, a regional conflict that has occurred in a country in Europe could eventually affect the world economy as […]

The Chinese authorities are worried that young men in China are becoming effeminate and that this threatens to Xi Jinping’s grand project of national rejuvenation. In September last year television regulators decreed that broadcasters must “resolutely put an end to sissy men and other abnormal esthetics”. Since then, we have witnessed a veritable campaign against […]

As the Russian military build-up along the borders with Ukraine has yielded to a full-scale military invasion, media coverage has soared and unverified frontline information has proliferated. After weeks and months of speculation, claims and counterclaims of escalation, and shuttle diplomacy, the news of troops deployments and the beginning of combat operations was severely distressing […]