News in 2023

Rob Yates reports from the UK- ASEAN Relations IdeasLab event in Bangkok

3 October 2023

On 6th July 2023 the ‘UK- ASEAN Relations: Towards sustainable, enduring, and equitable partnerships’ IdeasLab took place at the Asia Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. Supported by the University of Bristol’s Global Insecurities Centre, University of Leeds’s Centre for Global Security Challenges, and the Yokosuka Council for Asia-Pacific Studies, the IdeasLab brought together 30 practitioners and researchers working in government, research and civil society sectors across Southeast Asia. It discussed UK engagement with the region, and served as a follow up to an earlier event in Bristol on implementing the UK’s Indo-Pacific tilt and Southeast Asia.

GIC director Tim Edmunds publishes new article on the EU as a global maritime security provider

7 August 2023

GIC director Tim Edmunds has published a new article entitled ‘The European Union’s Quest to become a Global Maritime Security Provider’, with Professor Christian Bueger from the University of Copenhagen.

GIC director Tim Edmunds presents at the Indian Ocean Island Forum in Bangkok

7 August 2023

GIC director Professor Tim Edmunds presented a paper on ‘The Environment and Maritime Security’ at the Indian Ocean Island Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, on 10-12 May 2023.

The Global Insecurities Centre, University of Bristol are holding an IdeasLab on ‘UK-ASEAN Relations’ in Bangkok on 6th July.

21 March 2023

The UK introduced its Indo-Pacific ‘tilt’ in its 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy. In its 2023 follow-up refresh, the UK points to how the tilt has been achieved, and sets forth its intention to make this increased engagement stronger and enduring, and a permanent pillar of the UK’s international policy. ASEAN features as a key partner in the region, with the UK also highlighting its support for ASEAN Centrality.

Former GIC director Professor Mark Duffield presents to the EHESS in Paris on remoteness in a connected world.

11 January 2023

Presentation given to the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris by Mark Duffield

Former GIC director Professor Mark Duffield writes on development, hunger and impoverishment in Somalia

11 January 2023

Former GIC Director and colleague have opinion piece on Somalia published