The Emerging Quad 3.0: Prioritizing a Hard Security Agenda By Robert Mizo Copyright © IPS - Inter Press Service --

Jul 17 2025 (IPS) - On 1 July, the foreign ministers of the Quad—Australia, India, Japan and the US—convened for the second time this year in Washington, DC. While the first meeting, held just hours after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States, signaled the Quad’s significance to the new US administration, the second meeting indicates that the Quad is entering a new phase with a renewed focus on a strategic and hard security agenda, weaning itself away from its non-traditional security priorities. This presents a departure from its previous versions: the first Quad, which collapsed in 2007, centred on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR), and Quad 2.0, which was reinstated in 2017, gradually developed a broad public goods agenda. https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/07/the-emerging-quad-3-0-prioritizing-a-hard-security-agenda/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=High_Stakes_Mountain_Tourism_in_a_Warming_World_Interest_Payments_Now_Outpace_Education_Spending_in_ Copyright © IPS - Inter Press Service --