This post discusses the workings of defence diplomacy, particularly focusing on Southeast Asian defence diplomacy.
Right smack in the middle of writing papers, I still have the brazen gall to procrastinate and blog about this. But as they say, the show must go on and I must continue to deliver content. Mostly for my sake.
Anyway, today’s topic is something that, at first glance, might come across as oxymoronic. Yup, when else do you see the words “defence” and “diplomacy” put together? Seems kinda weird to mix guns and howitzers into a word that’s more often associated with old, white men in suits talking in jargon over tea.
So how did we get from buff military men shooting each other in faces to buff military men talking about security issues over dozens of coffees?
Scribbles from the Ivory Tower 