Australia as an Asia-Pacific Regional Power: Friendships in Flux?

by Taylor; Brendan

• ISBN13: 9780415404211
• ISBN10: 0415404215
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

P During recent years, in its traditional role as an important Asia-Pacific regional power, Australia has had to cope with a rapidly changing external security environment and a series of new challenges, including a rising China, an increasingly assertive United States, and most notably the Global War against Terror. /P P This book considers the changing nature of Australia's identity and role in the Asia-Pacific, and the forces behind these developments, with particular attention towards security alignments and alliance relationships. It outlines the contours of Australia's traditional role as a key regional middle power and the patterns of its heavy reliance on security alignments and alliances. Brendan Taylor goes on to consider Australia's relationships with other regional powers including Japan, China, Indonesia and India, uncovering the underlying purposes and expectations associated with these relationships, their evolving character ' particularly in the post Cold War era ' and likelyfuture directions. He discusses the implications for the region of Australia's new 'Pacific doctrine' of intervention, whether Australia's traditional alliance preferences are compatible with the emergence of a new East Asian security mechanism, and the impact of new, transnational and non-traditional security challenges such as terrorism and failed states. /P

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Forward

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Laying the Table

Introduction

Alliances and Alignments in the Twenty-First Century

Dining with Giants

Australia-United States

Australia-Japan

Australia-China

Australia-India

Working the Room

Australia-Indonesia

Australia-South Pacific

Australia-New Zealand

Australia-Singapore

Washing Up

Threats without Enemies: Are Australia's alliances and alignments still relevant?

Australia's Changing Alliances and Alignments: Towards a new diplomatic two-step?

Selected Bibliography

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