An Indo-Pacific norm entrepreneur? Australia and defence diplomacy

Carr, Andrew; Baldino, Daniel

doi:10.1080/19480881.2015.1018500

Cited by 17 publications

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“…Both do so by attempting to constitute a legitimate order grounded on a clear separation between the architects and the challengers of the US‐led rules‐based order (Homolar & Turner, 2024). Through these discursive practices, the two Asian allies simultaneously operate as norms entrepreneurs and norms preservationists, advocating for and protecting the dominant vision of order on which both US alliances are founded (Asplund, 2018; Carr & Baldino, 2015; Envall & Wilkins, 2022; Strating, 2022). Through their discourses, Tokyo and Canberra thus routinize a distinctive grammar of order to counter alternative narratives that infringe and challenge their respective alliances' ordering objectives.…”

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Mobilizing ideas of order: Burden‐sharing in the US–Japan and ANZUS alliances

Dell'Era,

Martín

2024

Asian Politics and Policy

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Debates on allies' contributions to alliances focus mainly on the material dimension. Accordingly, smaller partners are often belittled for failing to contribute their fair share to their defensive alliances with more powerful allies. While acknowledging that junior partners’ contributions do not match the same level of material capabilities provided by a more significant power like the United States, this study highlights the importance of other intangible contributions. We argue that defensive alliances during peacetime require a crucial, albeit overlooked, ideational contribution by all allies. We examine the US–Japan and ANZUS alliances to explore the process through which junior partners advance the interests of an alliance through ideational contributions. Our findings reveal that Japan and Australia contribute to their respective alliances with the United States by mobilizing fundamental ideas and norms that sustain and promote a specific global order and security vision. We maintain that such intangible contributions are necessary for alliance success.

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Mobilizing ideas of order: Burden‐sharing in the US–Japan and ANZUS alliances

Dell'Era,

Martín

2024

Asian Politics and Policy

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“…The concept of middle powers remains contested (Holbraad 1971(Holbraad , 1984Neack 1993;Cooper 1997;Schoeman 2013). The concept of middle power has evolved to a post-Cold War emphasis on behavioral-based definitions that treat the exercise of soft power as a normative or behavioral position that middle powers occupy as mediators, communicators, technical experts, coalition builders, norm entrepreneurs, or order stabilizers (Cooper, Higgot, and Nossal 1993;Chapnick 1999;Siniver 2010;Cooper 2011;Carr 2014;Carr and Baldino 2015;Siniver and Cabrera 2015;Robertson 2017). We follow Organski's (1958) positional notion of middle powers as states who play a significant role regionally, while their capacity to exert international influence is greater than that of small states (cf.…”

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Middle Powers and Soft-Power Rivalry: Egyptian–Israeli Competition in Africa

Siniver

Tsourapas

2023

Foreign Policy Analysis

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Scholars of international relations have long recognized the importance of soft power in great powers’ hegemonic designs. In contrast, we know little of middle powers’ employment of noncoercive strategies of attraction and, in particular, how soft power operates in the context of middle-power antagonism. We suggest that, first, soft power enhances coalition-building strategies for middle powers. Contrary to expectations that states join forces against a shared threat, the use of soft power via development aid produces an “Us” versus “Them” distinction in target states that unites them in the absence of a common enemy. Second, middle states’ soft-power strategies are likely to support coalition maintenance so long as it does not challenge target states’ national interests. Utilizing extensive archival and interview-based data, we examine how soft power featured in Egyptian–Israeli competition across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from 1957 to 1974. We demonstrate how soft power operates beyond the context of great power agenda setting, therefore providing novel evidence for the importance of soft power in the interplay between interstate antagonism and noncoercion in world politics.

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“…It also elevates the burden of defence spending thus solving the "bread and butter debate" as well as presenting greater power against advancing threat. It could also be seen as part of defence diplomacy mechanism which gained popularity in the region as Australia deepened its ties with its neighboring states and outside powers as well (Carr 2015;Baldino 2016). This school saw the need to increase confidence building measures on regional defence as well as increasing interoperability to manage potential crisis (Emmers 2012;Lockyer 2015).…”

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AUKUS and Australia’s Nuclear-Powered Submarine: A Reinforced Strategic Culture

Adamy

2022

JHI

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Australia’s decision to enter the AUKUS has caused some controversies among regional powers, especially noting the heightened Indo-Pacific discourse lately. But AUKUS isn’t a mere alliance against revisionist power, it has much deeper dan greater significance on Australia’s defence policies. This paper argues that AUKUS reflect the dilemmatic sub-strategic cultures within Australia’s defence policy considerations against the changing strategic environment in Indo-Pacific, the self-reliance and strategic dependence. Strategically, AUKUS presented Australia the opportunity to participate and shaping the Indo-Pacific under US-led initiative and act as technology catalysator on defence sector. Operationally, the nuclear-powered procurement under AUKUS will significantly boost Australia’s submarine fleet capability in sea denial and sea control mission as a part of larger coalition. Using strategic culture lens and studying primary and secondary documents in a qualitative work, the analysis of this paper concludes that AUKUS reflected the return and reinforced pattern of strategic dependence within Australia’s defence policy in the age of Indo-Pacific.

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An Indo-Pacific norm entrepreneur? Australia and defence diplomacy

Cited by 17 publications

References 25 publications

Mobilizing ideas of order: Burden‐sharing in the US–Japan and ANZUS alliances

Mobilizing ideas of order: Burden‐sharing in the US–Japan and ANZUS alliances

Middle Powers and Soft-Power Rivalry: Egyptian–Israeli Competition in Africa

AUKUS and Australia’s Nuclear-Powered Submarine: A Reinforced Strategic Culture

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