American, Australian, and Japanese Perspectives on a Changing Security Environment
Abstract
Objective: Respective bilateral ties between the United States and Australia and the United
States and Japan have both enjoyed a long history of strong and cooperative
relations. However, China’s rise has highlighted how insufficient these old security
partnerships look in a shifting security environment. A more accurate assessment
of Australian, U.S., and Japanese attitudes on this issue is therefore needed. This
project will seek to provide that assessment by looking at how all three states
approach current and future threat perceptions, concerns about strategic
uncertainties and policy planning, and thinking on how to strengthen deterrence
and extended deterrence. Findings from the project will highlight convergent and
divergent views of the security environment, threats, uncertainties, and deterrence
between the United States and its two closet Asian allies. This will foster greater
understanding in the three countries’ security communities and raise awareness of
security, deterrence, and proliferation issues outside the three countries.
Description
Performer: John Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies
Project Lead: Thomas Mahnken
Project Cost: $100,000
FY15-16
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