India and the New Trumpian World Order

Last month, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, summarizing a key belief of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy thinking, said in an interview that “it’s not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power… that was an anomaly. It was a product of the end of the ColdContinue Reading

Quad and AUKUS Face an Uncertain Future Under Trump

The return of Donald Trump as U.S. president marks an important crossroads in the future of two emergent Indo-Pacific security frameworks: the Quad, comprising Australia, India, Japan, and the United States; and AUKUS, the trilateral partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Both institutions played a keyContinue Reading

The Quad Under Trump 2.0: Early Signs of Shift Amid Continuity

One of the Trump administration’s first foreign policy acts, less than a day after the inauguration, was convening the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (FMM) on January 21. The FMM involved wide-ranging discussions addressing different dimensions of the Indo-Pacific, culminating with a consensus on the salience of “thinking bigger,” and aContinue Reading