Australia's Hedging Policy: Dualism in the Belt and Road Initiative in 2017

Abiansyah Bayu Ramadhan

2018

Abstract

The Belt and Road Initiative became one of the Chinese initiatives that had an influence on Asia, Africa, and Europe. Cooperation formed to lead the development of trade routes and improvement of economic relations. Australia became one of the countries that entered the maritime development in the South Pacific region. However, Australia does not seem to give a clear position to this issue until 2017. The author seeks to analyze the reasons of this unclear position from Australia through the analysis of the international system. This analysis leads to a system in the international world that influences foreign policy. The author sees the existence of economic and security systems that affect a country in establishing relationships with other countries. This leads to the emergence of the main actor who gives influence in the system. The author argues that China as a new international force has the same position with the United States as the previous influence holder. This has led to dualism in Australian policy. On the one side Australia has economic interests through relations with China. On the other hand, Australia can not abandon the United States which has become an alliance.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ramadhan A. (2018). Australia's Hedging Policy: Dualism in the Belt and Road Initiative in 2017. In Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR, ISBN 978-989-758-493-0, pages 186-192. DOI: 10.5220/0010274900002309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{acir18,
author={Abiansyah Bayu Ramadhan},
title={Australia's Hedging Policy: Dualism in the Belt and Road Initiative in 2017},
booktitle={Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,},
year={2018},
pages={186-192},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010274900002309},
isbn={978-989-758-493-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,
TI - Australia's Hedging Policy: Dualism in the Belt and Road Initiative in 2017
SN - 978-989-758-493-0
AU - Ramadhan A.
PY - 2018
SP - 186
EP - 192
DO - 10.5220/0010274900002309