Debating the Quad
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2018-03
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Graham, Euan
Pan, Chengxin
Hall, Ian
Kersten, Rikki
Zala, Benjamin
Percy, Sarah
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Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC), Australian National University
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In this Centre of Gravity paper, six of Australia’s leading scholars and policy experts debate Australian participation in the ‘Australia-India-Japan-United States consultations on the Indo-Pacific’ - known universally as the ‘Quad’. A decade since its first iteration, the revival of the Quad presents significant questions for Australia and the regional order. Is the Quad a constructive partnership of the region’s major powers to safeguard regional stability, uphold the rules-based order and promote security cooperation? Is it a concert of democracies seeking to contain China? Or is it an emerging strategic alignment that risks precipitating the very confrontation with China it seeks to avoid? Or is it something else entirely?
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)