President Donald Trump assumed office in January 2017 embracing a ‘transactional’ outlook towards alliance politics. US alliances would be managed less on traditional friendship and more on assessments of how the United States would gain …
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Discussions of burden-sharing among allies typically focus on the amount of money spent. Yet there is also an intellectual burden that needs to be distributed. In April 2017, two relatively new leaders of global superpowers, …
NATO and ANZUS are cousins. The defining family characteristic of the two alliances is the central, essential role of the United States. NATO is a complex organism of 29 members; in comparison, ANZUS—just the US …
The recent debate here on The Strategist between Paul Dibb and Hugh White over how Australia ought to respond to an unprovoked Chinese attack on the island of Taiwan touches upon an issue of deep …
Paul Dibb, in his recent Strategist post, writes that America’s strategic position in Asia would be fatally undermined if it didn’t go to war with China if China attacked Taiwan, and that Australia’s alliance with …