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KIA – Asia’s middle powers on the rise?

Author: Jonas Parello-Plesner China and India (Chindia) is on everybody’s lips when talking about rising Asia. Then what is KIA? A car, most people would reply. Yet it could also be the new brand-name...

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Hatoyama’s middle-power diplomacy in New York

Author: Tobias Harris It may be too early to declare that the Obama administration and the Hatoyama cabinet have successfully managed the transition from LDP to DPJ, but this week was clearly a step in...

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Responses to Hatoyama’s middle-power diplomacy

Author: Aurelia George Mulgan The recent piece by Tobias Harris on Hatoyama’s middle power diplomacy warrants some further discussion. Tobias Harris says: ‘Okada described Clinton as ‘not obstinate’...

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Australia and Vietnam deepen their strategic relationship

Author: Le Hong Hiep, Vietnam National University The first Australia–Vietnam Joint Foreign Affairs Defence Strategic Dialogue was held in Canberra on 21 February 2012. While this is evidence of the...

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North Korea and the American response

Author: Stephen Costello, Washington Reading statements from the US and ROK administrations and the international press regarding recent North Korean declarations against South Korea, it seems that...

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Japanese middle-power diplomacy

Author: Yoshihide Soeya, Keio University The concept of a ‘middle power’ embraces three aspects of diplomacy: behaviour, status and strategy. A typical middle power, such as Australia, has struggled to...

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Emerging Indonesia and its global posture

Author: Awidya Santikajaya, ANU Indonesia is currently the world’s 16th-largest economy by GDP, and is predicted to become the seventh largest by 2030. Many have billed Indonesia as ‘a rising middle...

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Australia and the G20

Author: Colin I. Bradford, Brookings Institution Australia assumes the presidency of the G20 Summit for 2014 at the end of this year. Already, there is great anticipation — Australia’s history of...

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Prospects for Japan as a middle power

Author: Yoshihide Soeya, Keio University After World War II Japan virtually stepped down from the stage of power politics and accepted that two documents would be the pillars of its foreign policy: its...

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South Korea stuck between global ambitions and regional realities

Author: Sarah Teo, University of Sydney and RSIS South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se once again defended the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system on the...

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Is South Korea really a middle power?

Author: Jeffrey Robertson, ANU Google Scholar academic citations during 2008–18 for the terms ‘South Korea’ and ‘middle power’ return 4260 hits — nearly double that of ‘middle power’ and Mexico (2060),...

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South Korea’s missing middle power diplomacy

Author: Jeffrey Robertson, ANU These days it is inviting debate at best, and ridicule at worst, to say that South Korea is not a middle power. Fuelled by South Korean government campaigns, there is...

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Middle powers after the middle-power moment

Author: Jeffrey Robertson, ANU Contemporary understanding of middle-power diplomacy is tied to a bygone era. Behavioural characteristics like activist diplomacy, coalition building, niche diplomacy and...

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Australia as an Asian power leaves no room for economic fantasy

Authors: Peter Drysdale and Shiro Armstrong, ANU For Australia to join the great decoupling from China that some Americans and Australian security officials demand would bring devastating costs to...

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US political decline means more ‘ninja diplomacy’

Author: James L Schoff, Carnegie Endowment Bitter and deepening political division in the United States is a serious challenge for Japanese foreign policy — a challenge that is likely to grow in the...

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Middle powers can shape a new security framework

Author: Yoshihide Soeya, Keio University Day by day, the US–China confrontation is heating up. The trajectory now appears irreversible. The nations of the Indo-Pacific, Japan included, are sandwiched...

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Middle power conundrum amid US–China rivalry

Author: Shin-wha Lee, Korea University The international community has faced an unprecedented social and economic shock due to three ‘big bangs’ — increasing US–China strategic competition, the fourth...

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