The weakening hegemon's quest for an alliance in the Indo-Pacific: AUKUS

Kurt, Selim; Tüysüzoğlu, Göktürk; Özgen, Cenk

doi:10.1080/19480881.2023.2170512

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“…100 Other criticism of AUKUS from Selim Kurt, Göktürk Tüysüzo glu, Cenk Özgen argues that AUKUS is "proof of the desire to continue the Anglo-American hegemony". 101 The Anglo-Saxon specific nature of the Alliance due to the exclusion of France, has been reiterated by Scheffer and Quencez. 102 It is also important to note that the secretive nature of the agreement in its first year has contributed to a decline in trust between governments, as outlined by Eglantine Staunton and Benjamin Day in their exploration of Australia-France relations in the wake of AUKUS, and Jamal Barnes and Samuel M. Makinda on international society norms and trust in the Indo-Pacific more broadly.…”

Section: Aukus: a Case Study Of Settler Colonial Strategic Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Settler Colonial Strategic Culture: Australia, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere

Clayton,

Newman

2023

Aus J of Politics History

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Australia's history as a settler colony within the British Empire fundamentally shapes its sense of security within the Indo‐Pacific region. Australia has consistently looked outside of its region for security and sought partners on the explicit basis of political, cultural, and ethnic similarity. What role does Australia's history play in shaping its foreign policy? We argue that these choices in foreign policy are inextricable from Australia's history as a settler colony on the farthest reaches of the British Empire. The AUKUS Agreement (AUKUS) is an example of how Australia operates to preserve racial hegemony in the face of non‐white threat — real or perceived. This research utilises critical discourse analysis to interrogate elite‐level discourse around AUKUS to ascertain the dominant narratives that inform its creation, the issues it seeks to address in Australian security policy, how it is structured by historical narratives of security, and how it functions to structure those narratives going forward. This article seeks to participate in the growing push to decolonise International Relations by illuminating the way Australia is ontologically and epistemologically invested in the preservation of racial hegemony.

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Section: Aukus: a Case Study Of Settler Colonial Strategic Culturementioning

confidence: 99%