VIDEO: Irregular Competition in South East Asia
08.08.2025 at 06:36am
Irregular Competition in South East Asia
Presenter: Andrew Maher Professor of Practice, School of Politics & Global Studies
The return to major power competition with China is not a unique situation. We have been here before. Major power competitions in Asia throughout the past 100 years have been characterized by the long-term use of non-state actors as proxies to subvert or challenge competitors. Occasional escalations into conventional warfighting are the aberration and not the norm. This talk draws from Andrew’s soon-to-be-completed PhD thesis examining proxy warfare, which offers a middle-power lens (an Australian perspective) on the historical pattern of proxy employment.
