Contested multilateralism 2.0 and Asia Pacific security

本项目旨在通过经济-安全关系模型考察冷战后美国、中国、日本、韩国和澳大利亚这五个大国对亚太地区多边机构的外交政策选择。通过深入的理论和实证案例研究，本项目将探讨国家在什么情况下更有可能依赖基于规则的机构，或使用基于权力的战略（如组建联盟）来追求世界政治中的安全。本项目旨在为澳大利亚决策者在21世纪实施明智有效的“亚洲政策”提供政策见解。

This project aims to examine the foreign policy choices of five major powers – the United States, China, Japan, South Korea and Australia – toward multilateral institutions in the Asia Pacific after the Cold War through an economic-security-nexus model. Through in-depth theoretical and empirical case studies, this project will explore when states are more likely to rely on rule-based institutions or to use power-based strategies, such as alliance formation, to pursue security in world politics. This project aims to provide policy insights for Australian policy makers to conduct a sensible and effective “Asia policy” in the 21st century.