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Defence StrategyClimate & SecurityCounter TerrorismCyber, Tech & SecurityCritical Tech TrackerIndia ProgramInternational ProgramNA Strategic PolicyPacific ProgramProfessional DevelopmentStatecraft & IntelligenceStrategic PolicingStop the WorldWashington DC
Defence, Strategy and National Security
The Defence, Strategy and National Security program focuses on broad strategic policy settings, global and regional security environments, the operational needs of the Australian Defence Force, the development of our defence capabilities, and issues associated with defence funding and budgets. Over the years ASPI has made nationally-recognised contributions in all those fields, and they remain central to ASPI’s work agenda even as it has expanded to embrace new programs and responsibilities.
Climate and Security policy Centre
The impacts of climate change are already being felt globally in record-setting extreme weather events that are contributing to poverty, hunger and humanitarian disasters.
The pace at which these and other climate impacts emerge is accelerating. The existing commitments States have made to reduce greenhouse gases are inadequate to prevent warming beyond the two-degree cap set in the Paris Climate Agreement. Even with additional reductions, the climate will continue warming for decades from the greenhouse gases already released to the atmosphere.
Counter Terrorism Policy Centre
ASPI’s Counter-terrorism Policy Centre (CTPC) was established in 2015, to focus on counter-terrorism as an important element of Australian national security and strategic policy. Since its establishment, the CTPC has contributed to Australia’s public and policy counter-terrorism discourse. Alongside ongoing research, commentary and dialogue on the ‘classic’ counter-terrorism and CVE topics such as jihadism, the Centre focuses increasing attention also on (violent) contestations of democracy.
Cyber, Technology and Security
ASPI’s Cyber, Technology & Security analysts aim to inform and influence policy debates in the Indo-Pacific through original, rigorous and data-driven research.
ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre (ICPC) is now ASPI Cyber, Technology & Security (CTS). The name change reflects our growing body of work on broader cyber-related issues and hybrid threats, such as critical technologies, critical infrastructure, and coercive diplomacy.
Critical Technology Tracker
The Critical Technology Tracker is a large data-driven project that now covers 64 critical technologies spanning defence, space, energy, the environment, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, robotics, cyber, computing, advanced materials and key quantum technology areas. It provides a leading indicator of a country’s research performance, strategic intent and potential future science and technology capability.
India Program
ASPI has established an India program that will continue to expand given Delhi’s importance to Australia’s national and regional interests.
International Program
Australia’s Defence White Paper 2016 emphasised the importance if a rule-based global order ro support its defence and security intrests.
Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre
With the support of the NT Government, ASPI has established two programs of work under the auspices of its Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre: The North and Australia’s Security and Nation-building in the North.
Pacific Program
ASPI’s Pacific Program aims to:
- Develop practical, evidence-based policy recommendations to build resilience in Pacific Island Country security forces and democratic institutions.
- Increase understanding and contribute to public awareness of the Pacific, including security and development needs, and partnerships with Australian government and security forces.
- Evaluate key traditional and non-traditional security threats to the Pacific region and analyse security and development needs.
Professional Development Centre
If ASPI’s role is to generate new ideas for government and foster better-informed decisions on strategic policy matters, then the role of ASPI Professional Development is to enhance strategic policy capability by exploring current and emerging policy challenges and building effective policy making and strategic analytical skills
Statecraft and Intelligence Centre
The Statecraft & Intelligence program focuses on the increasingly important role of intelligence in the conduct of statecraft, particularly in an Australian context.
Strategic policing and Law Enforcement
The main research areas include:
- analysing the link between law enforcement issues and national security concerns
- the contribution of law enforcement agencies to Australia’s international objectives
- the scope and nature of Australia’s and the region’s transnational serious and organised crime threat
- research that helps law enforcement agencies position themselves for the future.
Stop the World: An ASPI Podcast
Everything seems to be accelerating: geopolitics, technology, security threats, the dispersal of information. At times, it feels like a blur.
But beneath the dizzying proliferation of events, discoveries, rivalries and unravellings, there are deeper trends that can be grasped and understood through conversation and debate.
Washington DC
ASPI’s North America Program, known as ASPI DC, is based in Washington, DC. The office operates as an integral part of ASPI in Canberra. As such, the production model mirrors ASPI’s which has been successfully developed over twenty years, being built on empirically grounded original research, a capacity for policy innovation, and an ability to provide insights into real-world policy challenges. ASPI DC operates under the ASPI Charter and governance framework, adopting in-country compliance practices where applicable.