Asian Security & Warfare

he ASWRG is the prime forum of intellectual exchange and debate within the War Studies Group for scholars, young academics and postgraduate students interested in the study of Asia broadly defined. Members of the group conduct research on a variety of aspects pertaining to the military history, strategic thinking, national defence and security policies, regional and sub-regional multilateral institutions of an area that stretches from Iran and Afghanistan to Japan, from Mongolia to Australia.

The ASWRG sets itself at the forefront of the debates on some of the seminal questions that will inform the security policy-making process of developed countries in the West in years to come. To this end, it aims to:

• Expand the understanding of students as well as civilian and military professionals on the strategic, military and cultural issues concerning Asian security and warfare from both historical and contemporary perspectives;
• Explore avenues of research analysing differences and similarities among different sub-regional contexts such as Central and South Asia, the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, and Northeast Asia;
• Establish an international research network on Asian security and warfare, acting as a ‘pole of attraction’ for current and perspective students, academics from within and outside the college, and practitioners who wish to pursue the study and/or the research projects on Asian themes;
• Enhance the scholarly and wider debates at both the individual and group levels through the dissemination of high quality work in the form of lectures, seminar and conference presentations, articles and books.