Australia’s strategic objectives in a changing regional order

Australia has long viewed itself as a middle power anchored in the liberal rules-based order, global markets, its wider neighborhood, and its alliance with the United States. Yet today it confronts a regional order in flux that tests these foundations. This Asia Policy roundtable contains eight essays that examine Australia’s strategic priorities and challenges in a range of international relations areas and with its most important partners – the United States, China, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Island countries.

Darren J. Lim, Jackson Skinner, Sashank Thapa, William T. Tow, Alynna M. Carlos, Matt McDonald, Brendan Taylor, Rory Medcalf, James Laurenceson, Susannah Patton, Joanne Wallis, and Salote Tagivakatini