1st Edition

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

Edited By Brendan Taylor Copyright 2008
224 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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. This book considers the changing nature of Australia’s identity and role in the... Read more

Foreword Coral Bell  Part 1: Laying the Table  1. Introduction Brendan Taylor  2. Alliances and Alignments in the Twenty-First Century William Tow  Part 2: Dining with Giants  3. Australia–United States Paul Dibb  4. Australia–Japan Brendan Taylor and Desmond Ball  5. Australia–China Michael Wesley  6. Australia–India Sandy Gordon  Part 3: Working the Room  7. Australia–Indonesia Allan Gyngell  8. Australia–South Pacific Hugh White  9. Australia–New Zealand Robert Ayson  10. Australia–Singapore Ron Huisken  Part 4: Washing Up  11. Threats without Enemies: Are Australia’s Alliances and Alignments Still Relevant? Christopher Chung  12. Australia’s Changing Alliances and Alignments: Towards a New Diplomatic Two-Step? Pauline Kerr and Shannon Tow 

Biography

Brendan Taylor is a Lecturer in the Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence program at the Australian National University. He is a specialist on Northeast Asian security, American foreign policy, economic statecraft and alliance politics.