Unipolar Anxieties: Australia's Melanesia Policy after the Age of Intervention

Joanne Wallis and Michael Wesley

Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies from Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

Abstract: As a consequence of its membership of a US-centred global alliance network, Australia's regional obligations in the South Pacific are as pertinent to Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands's drawdown as they were to its inception. Canberra's imperatives in the Pacific have been stabilization and the exclusion of hostile interests. Three challenges—the rise of China, the Islamic State insurgency, and the democratic discontinuities in key regional players—have undermined interest in interventions in both Australia and the US. The growing influence of Asian powers in the Pacific has given rise to new exclusion concerns in Australia, and to a greater degree in the US. Rather than retrench from the South Pacific, Canberra has an opportunity to re-conceive the Pacific as an arc of opportunity, particularly in developing new forms of engagement with rising regional powers.

Keywords: Alliance; intervention; strategic exclusion; stabilisation; risk management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2016-02-01
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Published in Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, Jan 2016, pages 23-34

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