Australian Foreign Policy Shift in China’s One Belt One Road: The Role of Small Group and Multiple Autonomous Group

Rahmatul Amalia Nur Ahsani, Baiq Wardhani

2018

Abstract

China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) Foreign Policy aimed at building a liaison infrastructure between Asia, Europe and even globally is welcomed by the Australian government as a country that offered to invest in the project. Australia under the leadership of Prime Minister Turnbull has a cooperative foreign policy direction towards China. Therefore, OBOR investments offered by the Chinese government to the Australian government initially received a positive and optimistic response to the huge returns from infrastructure investments in Northern Australia where it coincided with the Australian government that intensifying massive infrastructure development in Northern Australia. However, Australia’s position in the OBOR cooperation was not clear with the rejection of the signing of the OBOR MoU by the Australian government. In this case, the author attempts to explain the shift in Australia’s position in OBOR through group level of analysis by explaining small-group decision units as well as multiple autonomous units. Furthermore, to explain how then the unit’s decision works, the author provide identification of the decision units contained in small groups and multiple autonomous groups, explaining how organizational structure of leaders to groups, as well as providing further small group analysis through the decision tree.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ahsani R. and Wardhani B. (2018). Australian Foreign Policy Shift in China’s One Belt One Road: The Role of Small Group and Multiple Autonomous Group. In Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR, ISBN 978-989-758-493-0, pages 562-567. DOI: 10.5220/0010280300002309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{acir18,
author={Rahmatul Amalia Nur Ahsani and Baiq Wardhani},
title={Australian Foreign Policy Shift in China’s One Belt One Road: The Role of Small Group and Multiple Autonomous Group},
booktitle={Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,},
year={2018},
pages={562-567},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010280300002309},
isbn={978-989-758-493-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,
TI - Australian Foreign Policy Shift in China’s One Belt One Road: The Role of Small Group and Multiple Autonomous Group
SN - 978-989-758-493-0
AU - Ahsani R.
AU - Wardhani B.
PY - 2018
SP - 562
EP - 567
DO - 10.5220/0010280300002309