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Title

The thickening web of Asian security cooperation : deepening defense ties among U.S. allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific / Scott W. Harold, Derek Grossman, Brian Harding, Jeffrey W. Hornung, Gregory Poling, Jeffrey Smith, Meagan L. Smith.

Author

Harold, Scott, 1975-

Publication

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2019]

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Additional Authors

• Grossman, Derek
• Harding, Brian
• Hornung, Jeffrey W.
• Poling, Gregory B.
• Smith, Jeffrey
• Smith, Meagan L.
• International Security and Defense Policy Center.
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• Rand Corporation.
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Description

xix, 434 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Key U.S. allies, security partners, and diplomatic interlocutors in the Indo-Pacific have been establishing or deepening their defense ties by branching out, engaging with each other on high-level security consultations, selling or transferring defense articles, engaging in joint defense industrial development, carrying out bilateral training and exercises, and signing defense-related agreements. Today these nations are also cooperating with non-U.S.-treaty countries such as India, Indonesia, and Vietnam that have aligned themselves more closely with the United States as China has grown both more powerful and more assertive in recent years. As a consequence, a set of important new linkages and security commitments among regional actors is forming, with substantial consequences for the United States, China, and the Indo-Pacific region. This report highlights the extent to which regional actors' security initiatives are a response to the perceived threat posed by a rising, assertive China; it calls attention to the strong support that the United States continues to enjoy across the region, with numerous actors expanding their security partnerships out of a desire to reinforce the existing regional order centered on a set of U.S. alliances so as to help share the burdens of security maintenance. The analysis points out the importance of understanding the diverse motivations regional actors have for expanding and deepening their regional security partnerships and highlights key areas for building partner capacity. Finally, the authors clarify which aspects of deepening security relationships derive from concerns about China and which stem from considerations other than balancing.

Subject

• Security, International > Indo-Pacific Region
• Geopolitics > Indo-Pacific Region
• International cooperation
• Diplomatic relations
• Geopolitics
• Security, International
• Strategic aspects of individual places
• Indo-Pacific Region > Strategic aspects
• Indo-Pacific Region > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > Indo-Pacific Region
• Indo-Pacific Region > Foreign relations > China
• China > Foreign relations > Indo-Pacific Region
• China
• Indo-Pacific Region
• United States

Note

• "RAND International Security and Defense Policy Center, National Security Research Division ."
• "Prepared for the MacArthur Foundation."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-434).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.

Contents

Introduction: Thickening the Web of Asian Security Cooperation -- Japan: Strengthening Defense Cooperation to Reinforce Region Order in the Shadow of a Rising China -- The Republic of Korea: Middle Power Diplomacy, "Asia's Paradox" Spur Expanding Defense Cooperation Under Constraints -- India: From Nonalignment to Engagement with Strategic Autonomy -- Australia: Expanding Defense Cooperation amid Alliance Dependency -- Indonesia: Growing Defense Cooperation in a Period of Transition -- Vietnam: Seeking Partners Through Omnidirectional Engagement -- The Philippines: Modernization with a More Diverse Set of Partners -- Conclusions: The Future of a Densely Networked Indo-Pacific Defense Community.

Call Number

JFD 20-1842

ISBN

• 9781977403339
• 1977403336

LCCN

10.7249/RR3125

OCLC

1120560958

Author

Harold, Scott, 1975- author.

Title

The thickening web of Asian security cooperation : deepening defense ties among U.S. allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific / Scott W. Harold, Derek Grossman, Brian Harding, Jeffrey W. Hornung, Gregory Poling, Jeffrey Smith, Meagan L. Smith.

Publisher

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-434).

Additional Formats

Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.

Connect to:

https://doi.org/10.7249/RR3125

Added Author

Grossman, Derek, author.

Harding, Brian, author.

Hornung, Jeffrey W., author.

Poling, Gregory B., author.

Smith, Jeffrey, author.

Smith, Meagan L., author.

International Security and Defense Policy Center.

National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)

Rand Corporation.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Other Standard Identifier

10.7249/RR3125 doi

Report No.

RAND/RR-3125-MCF

Research Call Number

JFD 20-1842