From 24–25 March 2025, the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies held an Israel Indo-Pacific Roundtable Virtual Workshop. The workshop was a continuation of an inaugural workshop launched on 27–28 March 2024, and provided a venue for participants from Israel and across the Indo-Pacific region to discuss shared interests, identify new areas for cooperation, and strengthen their partnerships.
NESA Center Associate Professor Dr. Michael Sharnoff and Assistant Professor Jeffrey Payne led the workshop, which included 21 scholars and practitioners from Israel and the Indo-Pacific region. The two-day virtual workshop included four panel sessions to address mutual strategic interests and emerging challenges and to create conditions for regional consultations and security. The conversations during the question-and-answer aimed to understand the challenges and opportunities for Israel and countries in the Indo-Pacific region, identify potential areas of coordination, establish relationships between participating countries, and develop concrete policy recommendations to constructively address the concerns.