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Partnership Adrift: Reshaping Australia-Japan Strategic Relations
Author: Yusuke Ishihara
Volume 5, Number 1 (Autumn 2009), pp. 103-122.
Abstract
The article analyses the past development and current condition of the Australia-Japan partnership. In conclusion, it identifies the absence of joint cooperation to shape Asian multilateralism, while the two countries have been successful in other areas such as cooperation with the United States and coordination of their policies in the South Pacific. Furthermore, the article proposes a strategy of the “prime mover” to systematically cooperate on multilateral building in Asia. The “prime mover” acts to integrate other regional countries including even China, into their bilateral cooperation of practical areas, and eventually encourage multilateralism to have practical use, and not be inflexibly ideological.
About the Author
Yusuke Ishihara is a Master’s candidate in the Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence (GSSD) program at The Australian National University. He is currently writing a MA thesis on the concept of hedging in Asia-Pacific security. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Department of Political Science in Keio University, Japan. yusuke.in.dublin@gmail.com.
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