Young professionals shaping the future of the Australia-US alliance

Griffith Asia Institute
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Perth USAsia Centre (University of Western Australia) partnered with Griffith Asia Institute to deliver a 3 day program for a group of young Queensland professionals on the future of the Australia-US alliance in the Indo-Pacific century. TheAustralia-US Alliance Young Leaders Dialogue(5-7 June 2019)is the initiative of Professor Peter Dean (Senior Fellow Perth US Asia Centre […]

ANZUS and the alliance dilemma

Griffith Asia Institute
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“Future challenges to the US—Australia alliance will revolve around tensions inherent in what Glenn Snyder identifies as ‘the alliance security dilemma’. Modern alliances are characterised by the dual fears of abandonment and entrapment–the client state simultaneously seeks to avoid abandonment by its major power protector and entrapment when it’s pressured into making commitments it would […]