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Articles by Brendan Sargeant
New Caledonia: Not either/or when it comes to France and China
Is China about to plant a red-and-yellow flag in Nouméa, its latest Pacific trophy? Not really. But that’s the impression local politicians are increasingly adept at conveying, both to garner votes and jangle nerves in France and Australia about New Caledonia’s 44-year political struggle over independence. The island’s last independence vote on 12 December produced the most inflated China rhetoric in local history.
What AUKUS Means For Australia: More Than Nuclear Subs - Breaking Defense
UK’s Astute Class nuclear submarine. (File) When the United States, United Kingdom and Australia announced their new AUKUS agreement, the major focus was on the path for Australia to acquire nuclear-powered submarines for the first time. But that headline aside, there is much more to the agreement, which could represent a major shift in Indo-Pacific strategic and military relations for the three nations.
Matching strategic and defence policy to the climate challenge
Australia is experiencing a series of cascading crises. While the most immediate is the Covid-19 pandemic, the global and regional strategic order in which it has so comfortably lived for decades is currently undergoing a significant shift. These compounding crises have challenged policy frameworks and response capacity. But the largest and most consequential crisis that Australia faces is climate change. In magnitude and consequence, climate change is potentially much more significant.
Challenges to the Australian strategic imagination
In the face of historic changes, Australia needs a larger conception of strategy, a richer discourse, and a more searching questioning of the assumptions that underpin the Australian strategic imagination. This paper, by Professor Brendan Sargeant, explores the new idea of ‘strategic imagination’, a way of understanding how a country thinks about its place in the world.
Australia and the BRI: Cooperate, compete or challenge
Nowhere is calibrating an effective Australian response to China's Belt and Road Initiative more important than in the Pacific. The fraught debate around Australia’s response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was again on show in the lead up to the recent federal election. Former Australian ambassador to China, Geoff Raby, counselled that the incoming government should more actively embrace the BRI.
Integrating Australia’s security and economic policy cultures | East Asia Forum
5 December 2019 Author: Brendan Sargeant, ANU The debate in Australia about China is intensifying and some of the optimism of a decade ago has dissipated. This is in part a result of Chinese actions, particularly concerning security, but also a result of shifts in US trade and economic policy towards China.
The place of the Pacific islands in the Indo-Pacific
Where the ‘Indo-Pacific’ begins and ends, and what it looks like, depends partly on where you are. It’s a term that has quite subtle but different shades of meaning depending on your national or policy perspective. It is not, for example, a term welcomed by China. And the Indo-Pacific is as much a policy construct as it is a geographical reality, so how it evolves further will depend on how communities of interest in Australia and elsewhere construct and use the term over time.
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