The 2020 Defence Strategic Update, recognised that military modernisation in the Indo-Pacific had accelerated faster than envisaged. Regional force modernisation has resulted in the development and deployment of new weapons that challenge Australia’s military capability edge. Expanding cyber capabilities, and the willingness of some countries and non-state actors to use them, are further complicating Australia’s […]
AthenaLab research is cited in InsightCrime article on wood theft.
Chileans have rejected a radical constitutional proposal, thereby deflating a left-wing tilt. There are lessons in this for all of Latin America.
A lack of due diligence, corruption, and a disregard for indigenous rights and the environment have characterized many Chinese infrastructure projects in the region.
The Council on Geostrategy, from the United Kingdom, and AthenaLab, from Chile, are delighted to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), whose purpose is to structure investigative cooperation on topics of common interest to both countries, which as free and open nations, have a confluence of interests and values within the framework […]
Chile is in the midst of an unprecedented constitutional reform programme. But can this process secure the country’s political and economic future, or will it be waylaid by competing demands? The constitutional reform process currently underway in Chile has its immediate origins in the October 2019 social uprising. The riots and protests that broke out at […]
The recent naval incident in which the Russian authorities claim that their forces fired warning shots at a British destroyer in the Black Sea, stems from the effects of the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Moscow (not recognized by the West) . If you want to understand more about how Russia uses the Black […]
In March, the United Kingdom (UK) published the Integrated Review – entitled ‘Global Britain in a competitive age’ – setting the tone and course for British strategic policy for the next decade. Britain’s World has covered the publication of the review from a range of perspectives, including the Euro-Atlantic, Indo-Pacific, and Polar dimensions. Today we […]
For more than twenty years, successive Chilean governments, on both the right and the left, have sought to integrate their country, with its back to the Andes mountains, into the Pacific rim’s flourishing economy. Chile has already tied itself to Asia and other parts of the world through Latin America’s most extensive web of free trade […]
A record drug bust by Chilean armed forces showed that growing public concern about increased drug trafficking in the country is more than justified. In late November, the Navy intercepted a Peruvian boat sailing in Chilean waters off the northern Tarapacá Region, carrying 532 kilograms of cocaine. More than half a ton of cocaine was confiscated during the operation, a […]
