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Research Cluster
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Asia-Pacific Security
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Contact Person
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Professor William Tow
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Principal Researchers
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Lorraine Elliott, Greg Fry, Stuart Harris, Kathy Morton, John Ravenhill, William Tow, Peter Van Ness
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Cluster Description
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This cluster examines theoretical and empirical developments in international security. Combinations of intra-regional and extra-regional factors spanning economic, strategic and institutional sectors increasingly shape Asia-Pacific security. Our research focus is to better understand how these factors intersect, what outcomes such connections generate. We explore such issues alliance politics, the diplomacy of arms control and security regimes, economic-security linkages, energy security, environmental security, human security, policing and security, geopolitics and military balances and regional community-building.
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Key Research Questions
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What is the 'regional-global nexus' in Asia-Pacific security politics? Does 'soft power' matter in the region? What are the implications of China's 'peaceful rise'? What are the key factors linking emerging challenges in environmental politics, the forced movement of peoples and other 'human security' areas with more traditional threats and state-centric security priorities?
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Supporting Grants
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- Australia China Council (Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
- Australia Japan Foundation (Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
- Australian Research Council (Centre for Excellence in Policing and Security)
- Australia Department of Defence, Australian Research Council Discovery Awards
- Australian Strategic Policy Institute, China
- Ford Foundation
- International Centre for Excellence for Asia Pacific Studies (ICEAPS)
- Japan Foundation (Centre for Global Partnership)
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Recent Research Cluster Projects
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Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (Australia, Japan and the US): Implications for regional stability [funded by Japan Foundation, Australian Department of Defence, and Australian Strategic Policy Institute].
Regional Security Architectures [funded by the ICEAPS, the Australia Japan Foundation and the International Alliance of Research Universities].
The Global-Regional Nexus: Re-envisioning Asia-Pacific Security [workshop volume forthcoming, 2008].
Sino-Australian Security Relations [funded by Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade and in collaboration with the China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations].
Alliance Affinities: The US and Commonwealth Allies in the 21st Century [funded by the Australian Research Council].
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PhD Theses
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Jae Joek Park The Persistence of the US-led Bilateral Alliances in the Asia-Pacific.
Sartika Soesilowati, ASEAN: State-centric recalcitrant or security community architect?.
Tomohiko Satake US Alliance Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Shannon Tow Weak Power Maneouvrability: A Comparative Study of Australian Alignment Behaviour With That of Other Asia-Pacific powers.
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Publications
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Lorraine Elliott, 'Environment and /, no. 174 (2007): 37-50.
Lorraine Elliott, 'Transnational environmental crime in the Asia
Pacific: An un(der)-securitised security problem?', The Pacific
Review, 20(4) 2007: 499-522.
Lorraine Elliott, 'US policy interests and the challenges of
environmental security in Asia' in Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Willis
(eds) Strategic Asia 2007-08: Domestic politics, internal change and
grand strategy (Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2007).
Lorraine Elliott, 'Harm and Emancipation: Making Environmental Security "Critical" in the Asia-Pacific', in Anthony Burke and Matt McDonald (eds), Critical Security in the Asia Pacific (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).
Lorraine Elliott, 'Environmental Security in East Asia: Defining a Common Security Agenda', in Paul G. Harris (ed.), International Environmental Cooperation: Diplomacy and Politics in East Asi (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002).
Greg Fry and Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka (eds), Intervention and State-Building in the Pacific: Political Legitimacy and 'Cooperative Intervention' (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).
Greg Fry, 'Our Patch: The War on Terror and Australia's New Interventionism', in Greg Fry and Tarcisius Kabutaulaka (eds), Intervention and State Building in the Pacific: The Political Legitimacy of 'Cooperative Intervention' (Manchester: Manchester Universtiy Press, 2007).
Stuart Harris and Greg Austin, Japan and Greater China-Political Economy and Military Power in the Asian Century (London/Honolulu: Hurst & Co and University of Hawaii Press 2001.
Kathy Morton, 'The Emergence of NGOs in China and their Transnational Linkages: Implications for Domestic Reform', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 59, no.4, December 2005, pp. 519-533.
John Ravenhill, 'Mission Creep or Mission Impossible: APEC and Security', in Amitav Acharya and Evelyun Goh (eds), Reassessing Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: Competition, Congruence and Transformation (Cambrdige, MA: MIT Press, 2006).
William T. Tow, Mark Thomson, Satu Limaye, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto (eds), Asia-Pacific Security: Australia, Japan and the United States (London: Routledge, 2007).
William T. Tow, Douglas T. Stuart, Jeffrey Mccausland and Michael Wesley (eds). The Other Special Relationship: The US and Australia at the Start of the 21st Century (Carlielse: US Army War College Press, 2007).
William T. Tow, Seeking Convergent Security: Contending Security Interests in the Asia-Pacific Security Region (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Peter Van Ness and Melvin Gurtov, Confronting the Bush Doctrine (London: Routledge/Curzon 2005).
Peter Van Ness, 'Hegemony, Not Anarchy: Why China and Japan Are Not Balancing US Unipolar Power', International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 2, no. 1 (2002), pp. 131-150.
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Conferences
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'The Other Special Relationship: The US and Australia at the Start of the 21st Century' Workshop One, Carlisle, PA and Washington, D.C., March 2006.
'The Other Special Relationship: The US and Australia at the Start of the 21st Century' Workshop Two, Brisbane and Canberra, July 2006.
'Global-Regional Nexus: Re-envisioning Asia-Pacific Security', Canberra, August 2006.
'Reconciliation Between China and Japan - A Search for Solutions' Canberra, August 2006.
'Sino-Australian Security Relations', Beijing March 2007.
'Sino-Australian Security Relations: Part 2', Canberra October 2007.
‘The Emerging ASEAN-Australia-India Security Triangle’, Canberra February 2008.
‘Regional Security Architectures’, Canberra April 2008.
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