Bilateral perspectives on regional security [electronic resource] : Australia, Japan and the Asia-Pacific region / edited by William Tow and Rikki Kersten.
Intensifying Australia₆Japan bilateral security relations reflect an important trend in alliance politics. Smaller and middle power allies are cooperating with each other more directly on key strategic issues. Five years after the signing of the Australia₆ Japan Joint Declaration on Security Coopera...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Series: | Critical studies of the Asia Pacific series.
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| Summary: | Intensifying Australia₆Japan bilateral security relations reflect an important trend in alliance politics. Smaller and middle power allies are cooperating with each other more directly on key strategic issues. Five years after the signing of the Australia₆ Japan Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation, these two US allies are collaborating on a wide array of traditional and non-traditional security issues, bilaterally, regionally and globally. This is an important trend in contemporary Asian geopolitics as historical power shifts in this region unfold. The authors assess the key factors underlying such cooperation and the policy challenges that could impede it. Australian and Japanese experts offer critical insights into why their two countries ₆ traditionally the two key 'spokes' in the US bilateral alliance network spanning Asia ₆ are moving towards a distinct security relationship in their own right. "This book assesses the key factors underlying such Australian-Japanese cooperation and those policy challenges that could impede it. Experts offer critical insights into why their two countries - traditionally the two key 'spokes' in the US bilateral alliance network spanning Asia - are moving toward a security relationship in their own right"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137271204 1137271205 1349326763 9781349326761 |