Rory Medcalf
Biographic Data
| ID | 4501365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rory Medcalf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rory |
| FAMILY NAME | Medcalf |
| SIGNATURE | MEDCALF R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Security College, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3773-4115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What would Allan think
What would Allan think? Allan Gyngell was a superlative analyst, adviser, leader, diplomat, mentor, friend and Australian. He was also an indispensable presence in this country’s foreign policy debate. This leaves his loss all the more wrenching. But for many of us, I am sure he will never be truly gone. He’s the only colleague and boss I’ve known whose perspective was always present. Many is the time, the decision, the questionable analytic judg…
Toward principled pragmatism in Indigenous diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific
Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg provide a compelling foundation for developing Indigenous diplomacy for Australia, pointing to principled pragmatism and the integrity of a ‘relationalism’ grounded in landscape. However, Indigenous diplomacy and First Nations foreign policy will be difficult to translate into practice. This is not least because of the diplomatic tension which consistent First Nations advocacy would bring in a region of sovereignty se…
Indo-Pacific Empire
An Australian Vision of the Indo-Pacific and What It Means for Southeast Asia
“Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region’s dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is…
The Indo-Pacific with Chinese characteristics
La montée en puissance économique de la Chine l’installe dans une géographie stratégique nouvelle, du Pacifique à l’Afrique et au Moyen-Orient, ce que traduit sa grande stratégie dite Belt and Road Initiative. Le concept d’Indo-Pacifique, officiellement rejeté par Pékin, tente d’intégrer l’extension de la puissance chinoise dans un cadre multilatéral, qui ferait à sa puissance toute sa place, tout en ménageant les intérêts et les capacités de déc…
Australia And China
Between 2016 and 2018, Australia’s perceptions of China underwent a significant reality check, with global implications. Australia has been a first mover in pushing back against Chinese foreign interference, including via new foreign influence and interference laws. The recalibration of Australia-China relations, and the events and policy debate that proceeded it, is instructive for other countries seeking to respond to the more assertive and coe…
Cocos and Christmas Islands
Australia’s Cocos Islands and Christmas Island are remote islands with potentially great significance for Australia’s strategic role in the eastern Indian Ocean region and the wider Indo-Pacific. This paper explores the growing militarization of islands throughout the Indian Ocean in the context of growing strategic competition in the region. It then considers the strategic value of Australia’s Indian Ocean territories and makes recommendations a…
Imagining an Indian National Security Strategy
India’s power and interests continue to grow in the Indo-Pacific region and globally, yet its national security policymaking approaches have not kept pace. These may have been barely adequate for India’s twentieth-century experience as a regional power tending towards strategic restraint, but currently constrain India from being able to harness its considerable national capabilities to protect larger and more complex interests. This article ident…
National security
In the process of bringing together this special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs, we were struck by how frequently the term ‘national security’ is used and abused, by both
Malcolm Fraser's Asia Delusion
Malcolm Fraser’s book Dangerous Allies (Fraser with Roberts 2014) has \nrightly been taken to task, even by broadly sympathetic readers, for the way it \ncaricatures US foreign policy (White 2014). It leaves the absurd impression that \nalmost everything Washington does in the world today is a wilfully dangerous \nextension of the neoconservative crusade of a decade ago. The book has at \nleast one other equally unsettling flaw: the way it misrea…
In defence of the Indo-Pacific
The 2013 Australian Defence White Paper categorically termed Australia's zone of strategic interest the Indo-Pacific, the first time any government has defined its region this way. This raises questions about what the Indo-Pacific means, whether it is a coherent strategic system, the provenance of the concept and its implications for Asian security as well as Australian policy. Indo-Pacific Asia can best be understood as an expansive definition o…
The Indian Ocean region
Ever since Robert Kaplan's 2009 essay in Foreign Affairs, it has been fashionable in foreign policy circles to trumpet the importance of the Indian Ocean to the global strategic and economic order
Unselfish giants? Understanding China and India as security providers
With fast-growing economies, defence capabilities and international interests, China and India are becoming increasingly active as contributors of public goods in international security, such as anti-piracy operations, humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, capacity-building, stabilisation and peacekeeping. This article examines the drivers and characteristics of China's and India's growing roles in contributing to security public goods. It al…
In defence of the Indo-Pacific
The 2013 Australian Defence White Paper categorically termed Australia's zone of strategic interest the Indo-Pacific, the first time any government has defined its region this way. This raises questions about what the Indo-Pacific means, whether it is a coherent strategic system, the provenance of the concept and its implications for Asian security as well as Australian policy. Indo-Pacific Asia can best be understood as an expansive definition o…
Australia And China
Between 2016 and 2018, Australia’s perceptions of China underwent a significant reality check, with global implications. Australia has been a first mover in pushing back against Chinese foreign interference, including via new foreign influence and interference laws. The recalibration of Australia-China relations, and the events and policy debate that proceeded it, is instructive for other countries seeking to respond to the more assertive and coe…
Unselfish giants? Understanding China and India as security providers
With fast-growing economies, defence capabilities and international interests, China and India are becoming increasingly active as contributors of public goods in international security, such as anti-piracy operations, humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, capacity-building, stabilisation and peacekeeping. This article examines the drivers and characteristics of China's and India's growing roles in contributing to security public goods. It al…
The Indo-Pacific with Chinese characteristics
La montée en puissance économique de la Chine l’installe dans une géographie stratégique nouvelle, du Pacifique à l’Afrique et au Moyen-Orient, ce que traduit sa grande stratégie dite Belt and Road Initiative. Le concept d’Indo-Pacifique, officiellement rejeté par Pékin, tente d’intégrer l’extension de la puissance chinoise dans un cadre multilatéral, qui ferait à sa puissance toute sa place, tout en ménageant les intérêts et les capacités de déc…
Cocos and Christmas Islands
Australia’s Cocos Islands and Christmas Island are remote islands with potentially great significance for Australia’s strategic role in the eastern Indian Ocean region and the wider Indo-Pacific. This paper explores the growing militarization of islands throughout the Indian Ocean in the context of growing strategic competition in the region. It then considers the strategic value of Australia’s Indian Ocean territories and makes recommendations a…
Malcolm Fraser's Asia Delusion
Malcolm Fraser’s book Dangerous Allies (Fraser with Roberts 2014) has \nrightly been taken to task, even by broadly sympathetic readers, for the way it \ncaricatures US foreign policy (White 2014). It leaves the absurd impression that \nalmost everything Washington does in the world today is a wilfully dangerous \nextension of the neoconservative crusade of a decade ago. The book has at \nleast one other equally unsettling flaw: the way it misrea…
Unselfish giants? Understanding China and India as security providers
With fast-growing economies, defence capabilities and international interests, China and India are becoming increasingly active as contributors of public goods in international security, such as anti-piracy operations, humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, capacity-building, stabilisation and peacekeeping. This article examines the drivers and characteristics of China's and India's growing roles in contributing to security public goods. It al…
The Indian Ocean region
Ever since Robert Kaplan's 2009 essay in Foreign Affairs, it has been fashionable in foreign policy circles to trumpet the importance of the Indian Ocean to the global strategic and economic order
Malcolm Fraser's Asia Delusion
Malcolm Fraser’s book Dangerous Allies (Fraser with Roberts 2014) has \nrightly been taken to task, even by broadly sympathetic readers, for the way it \ncaricatures US foreign policy (White 2014). It leaves the absurd impression that \nalmost everything Washington does in the world today is a wilfully dangerous \nextension of the neoconservative crusade of a decade ago. The book has at \nleast one other equally unsettling flaw: the way it misrea…
In defence of the Indo-Pacific
The 2013 Australian Defence White Paper categorically termed Australia's zone of strategic interest the Indo-Pacific, the first time any government has defined its region this way. This raises questions about what the Indo-Pacific means, whether it is a coherent strategic system, the provenance of the concept and its implications for Asian security as well as Australian policy. Indo-Pacific Asia can best be understood as an expansive definition o…
Cocos and Christmas Islands
Australia’s Cocos Islands and Christmas Island are remote islands with potentially great significance for Australia’s strategic role in the eastern Indian Ocean region and the wider Indo-Pacific. This paper explores the growing militarization of islands throughout the Indian Ocean in the context of growing strategic competition in the region. It then considers the strategic value of Australia’s Indian Ocean territories and makes recommendations a…
Imagining an Indian National Security Strategy
India’s power and interests continue to grow in the Indo-Pacific region and globally, yet its national security policymaking approaches have not kept pace. These may have been barely adequate for India’s twentieth-century experience as a regional power tending towards strategic restraint, but currently constrain India from being able to harness its considerable national capabilities to protect larger and more complex interests. This article ident…
National security
In the process of bringing together this special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs, we were struck by how frequently the term ‘national security’ is used and abused, by both
Australia And China
Between 2016 and 2018, Australia’s perceptions of China underwent a significant reality check, with global implications. Australia has been a first mover in pushing back against Chinese foreign interference, including via new foreign influence and interference laws. The recalibration of Australia-China relations, and the events and policy debate that proceeded it, is instructive for other countries seeking to respond to the more assertive and coe…
An Australian Vision of the Indo-Pacific and What It Means for Southeast Asia
“Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region’s dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is…
The Indo-Pacific with Chinese characteristics
La montée en puissance économique de la Chine l’installe dans une géographie stratégique nouvelle, du Pacifique à l’Afrique et au Moyen-Orient, ce que traduit sa grande stratégie dite Belt and Road Initiative. Le concept d’Indo-Pacifique, officiellement rejeté par Pékin, tente d’intégrer l’extension de la puissance chinoise dans un cadre multilatéral, qui ferait à sa puissance toute sa place, tout en ménageant les intérêts et les capacités de déc…
Indo-Pacific Empire
What would Allan think
What would Allan think? Allan Gyngell was a superlative analyst, adviser, leader, diplomat, mentor, friend and Australian. He was also an indispensable presence in this country’s foreign policy debate. This leaves his loss all the more wrenching. But for many of us, I am sure he will never be truly gone. He’s the only colleague and boss I’ve known whose perspective was always present. Many is the time, the decision, the questionable analytic judg…
Toward principled pragmatism in Indigenous diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific
Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg provide a compelling foundation for developing Indigenous diplomacy for Australia, pointing to principled pragmatism and the integrity of a ‘relationalism’ grounded in landscape. However, Indigenous diplomacy and First Nations foreign policy will be difficult to translate into practice. This is not least because of the diplomatic tension which consistent First Nations advocacy would bring in a region of sovereignty se…
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