Reposted by Matt McDonald
New article in The Pacific Review: “Fear of Abandonment and the US Alliance: The Paranoid Logic in Australian Foreign Policy.”
I ask why Australia’s alignment with the US has persisted, but also why that relationship has been managed in different ways over time.
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Fear of abandonment and the US alliance – the paranoid logic in Australian foreign policy
For more than seven decades, the US alliance has been a central pillar of Australian security policy. Yet the last decade has seen US commitments become increasingly conditional and uncertain. Why ...