Asia-pacific Security Us, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle

This book examines the recent upgrading of Australia-Japan-United States security interactions and their implications for Asia-Pacific regional security. The convergence of the strategic interests of these three states makes it imperative that such interests and the policy ramifications receive extensive investigation. This need is particularly compelling given that the 'Trilateral Security Dialogue' is one of several contending approaches to reshaping Asia-Pacific regional security architectures and mechanisms to confront new challenges in a post-Cold War and post-9/11 environment.The current volume provides the first systematic and comprehensive treatment of trilateral security alliance politics as it is developing in the Asia-Pacific. It is also a study of the key evolving security trends in the region, such as how domestic politics in each country relate to regional security politics.This book will be of much interest to all students of Asia-Pacific Security, US foreign policy, Asian politics and International Relations in generalWilliam Towis Professor of International Security in the Australian National University's Department of International Relations.Mark Thomsonis Director of the Budget and Management Program at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.Yoshinobu Yamamotois a Professor of the University of Tokyo and Director of the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS).Satu Limayeis a research staff member of the Institute for Defense Analyses. Prior to joining IDA in 2005, he was Director for Research at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies.Thomson, Mark is the author of 'Asia-pacific Security Us, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415417105 and ISBN 0415417104.