Australia and Japan: Allies in the making
The stated intention of the Japan–Australia ‘strategic partnership’, and the TSD, is to build cooperation on non-traditional security challenges, such as disaster relief, piracy and climate change,...
View ArticleTaipei and Tokyo: toward a closer relationship?
Another avid tea-drinking country, Japan, will also be closely watching the contest’s outcome. Though Tokyo is excruciatingly circumspect in keeping aloof from Taiwan’s electoral politics and foreign...
View ArticleAustralia’s war drum to nowhere on Taiwan
During an ANZAC Day speech, the Secretary of the Australian Department of Home Affairs Mike Pezzullo warned that ‘in a world of perpetual tension and dread, the drums of war beat’. Australian Defence...
View ArticleJapan steps closer to global military power
According to most realist theorists, this entailed the reacquisition of archetypical great power military capabilities and an independent nuclear deterrent. But after decades passed and this prediction...
View ArticleAustralia, Japan and the new web of Indo-Pacific minilateralism
The Indo-Pacific is being transformed by a resurgence of so-called ‘minilateral’ forms of regional cooperation. Whereas state-to-state cooperation was once generally either bilateral or multilateral,...
View ArticleThe Quad’s growing focus on maritime security
The rise of minilateral initiatives in the Indo-Pacific has attracted worldwide attention as it appears to be a response to the region’s changing balance of power. Yet such groupings can come with...
View ArticleHow Australia and Japan can boost minilateralism to counter Chinese influence
Middle powers such as Australia and Japan have leveraged minilateral relationships to achieve shared security and economic objectives. But since the minilateralism pursued by Canberra and Tokyo has...
View ArticleMinilateral solutions to the geoeconomic challenges facing Japan and Australia
If minilateralism is the ‘way to get things done’ in the Indo-Pacific — whether in the security, diplomatic, defence or economic spheres — then what Japan and Australia, as two leading ‘middle powers’...
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