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The Indo-Pacific contains over half of the world’s population and is responsible for nearly forty percent of global economic output. For more than 75 years, Washington has maintained its steadfast commitment to ensuring the region remains free, open and prosperous through sustained political, economic, and security engagement with allies and partners.

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The 21st century may be the Pacific Century, and China appears poised to become America’s greatest rival for global power and influence. Host Michael Auslin and his guests broadly address developments in China and Asia. They discuss the latest politics, economics, law, and cultural news, with a focus on US policy in the region.
 

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Indonesia, Emerging Technology, and a Free and Open Indo-Pacific | September 2021
Roundtable discussion with General Andika Perkassa, Commanding General of the Indonesian Army, on Indonesia’s challenges in the Indo-Pacific and the emerging technologies that can help strengthen its capabilities to defend its sovereignty and maintain a free and open region and hosted by Joe Felter.

Japan in the Indo-Pacific | August 2021
Workshop featuring Japan’s Senior Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shigeo Yamada and General Jim Mattis in discussion on Indo-Pacific security issues, the US-Japan alliance, and Quad cooperation and hosted by Michael Auslin and Joe Felter.

Great Power Competition in Latin American | July 2021
Admiral Craig Fowler Commander US Southern Command discussed China’s competitive activities in Latin America – the eastern end of the Indo Pacific- with General Jim Mattis and hosted by Joe Felter.

Australia in the Indo-Pacific | March 2021
Workshop featuring Australia’s Secretary of the Department of Defence, Greg Moriarty, Secretary Condoleezza Rice and General Jim Mattis in discussion on the Australia-US alliance and its role in defending and re-shaping an interests-based international order in the Indo-Pacific hosted by Joe Felter.

India | February 2021
Workshop featuring Lt. General Rajesh Pant, National Cyber Security Coordinator, National Security Council Secretariat of India, Secretary Condoleezza Rice and USISPF Chairman John Chambers in discussion on the challenges and opportunities for US-India technology cooperation in the areas of Cyber Security and 5G. Co-hosted with US India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) and moderated by Joe Felter and Mr. Vikram J. Singh.

Australia | December 2020
Workshop with Australia’s First Assistant Secretary Defence Industry Policy (DIP), Dr. Peter Sawczak, and Assistant Secretary Defence Capability and Innovation, DIP, Mr. Andrew Hodgkinson and the US’ Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, the Honorable James “Hondo” Geurts, and Brigadier General Steve “Bucky” Butow of the Defense Innovation Unit in a discussion on US-Australia defense innovation hosted by Joe Felter.

 

The Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue will partner with the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands to convene a senior “Quad Track 1.5 security dialogue” at the historic Annenberg estate in Rancho Mirage, CA in early December 2021.

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Michael R. Auslin

Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia

Michael Auslin, PhD, is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A historian by training, he specializes in US policy in Asia and geopolitical issues in the Indo-Pacific region. Auslin is the author of six books, including Asia’s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific and the best-selling The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region. He is a longtime contributor to the Wall Street Journal and National Review, and his writing appears in other leading publications, including the Financial Times, The Spectator, and Foreign Policy. He comments regularly for US and foreign print and broadcast media.  Previously, Auslin was an associate professor of history at Yale University, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the senior advisor for Asia at the Halifax International Security Forum, a senior fellow at London’s Policy Exchange, and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Among his honors are being named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Fulbright Scholar, and a German Marshall Fund Marshall Memorial Fellow. He serves on the board of the Wilton Park USA Foundation.  Auslin hosts the podcast The Pacific Century, where he and his guests discuss the latest politics, economics, law, and cultural news in China and Asia, with a focus on US policy in the region. Payson J. Treat, for whom Auslin’s current Stanford position is named, held the first professorship at an American university in what was then called Far Eastern history, a post created for him at Stanford in 1906.

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Joseph Felter

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Joe Felter is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and William J. Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation. From 2017 to 2019, Felter served as US deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. There he was the principal advisor for all policy matters pertaining to development and implementation of defense strategies and plans in the region and responsible for managing bilateral security relationships and guiding Department of Defense (DoD) engagement with multilateral institutions.   At Stanford, Felter is codirector of the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project and coauthor of Hacking for Defense, a defense innovation­–focused academic curriculum he helped develop and pilot at Stanford, sponsored by the DoD and taught at more than 30 universities across the country. His previous academic positions include director of West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center, assistant professor in the US Military Academy’s Department of Social Sciences, and adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs. His research focuses on addressing politically motivated violence and has appeared in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and a range of other academic and policy-focused publications.  He is coauthor of Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution and Modern Conflict (Princeton University Press, 2018).  A former US Army Special Forces and Foreign Area officer, Joe served in a variety of special operations and diplomatic assignments across East and Southeast Asia. His combat deployments include Panama with the 75th Ranger Regiment, Iraq with a Joint Special Operations Task Force, and Afghanistan, where he commanded the COMISAF Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team, reporting directly to Generals Stanley McChrystal and David Petraeus. Felter is founder and senior advisor at BMNT a Silicon Valley–based technology incubator and problem-solving platform named by Forbes magazine in 2016 as one of the nation’s top-25 veteran-founded start-ups. He served as a member of the Marines Memorial Board of Advisors and is currently a board member of Spirit of America, a nonprofit supporting the needs of US military members deployed overseas. He received a BS from the US Military Academy at West Point, a masters in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a graduate certificate in management from the University of West Australia, and a PhD in political science from Stanford University. He is a graduate of the Singapore Armed Forces Senior Service College and was a US Army War College Fellow at the Hoover Institution. 

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