ASEAN and Australia has a long history of mutual partnership. It is a strategic foreign policy for both parties. ASEAN needs to maintain its power and influence with their neighboring countries to maintain the political stability in the Southeast Asian region. On the other hand, Australia needs Southeast Asia because it serves as a strategic and crucial pivot of numerous benefits and interests for them, including but not limited to security and economics. However, ASEAN-Australia relations is not separated from the geopolitical implications. The geopolitical factors determine the strategic partnership between ASEAN and Australia, thus leading to the hypothesis in this article where Australia needs ASEAN more than the vice versa, and Australia is the one who benefits more in terms of relative gain, relative to ASEAN.Abstrak ASEAN dan Australia memiliki sejarah yang cukup panjang dalam hal kerjasama. Untuk kedua belah pihak, kerjasama ini adalah kebijakan luar negeri yang bersifat strategis. ASEAN harus menjaga kekuatan dan pengaruhnya pada negara-negara tetangga untuk menjaga stabilitas di kawasan Asia Tenggara. Australia membutuhkannya karena Asia Tenggara adalah kawasan penting dan vital untuk banyak kepentingan nasional Australia yang termasuk, namun tidak terbatas pada keamanan dan ekonomi. Tetapi, hubungan ASEAN-Australia tidak terlepas pada sifat geopolitis. Faktor-faktor geopolitik menjadi penentu dalam kemitraan strategis antara kedua pihak, di mana artikel ini mengajukan hipotesis bahwa Australia lebih membutuhkan ASEAN daripada sebaliknya, dan Australialah yang relatif lebih diuntungkan dalam hubungan ini. Kata-kata kunci: hubungan ASEAN-Australia, neorealisme, relative gain, geopolitik
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