William T Tow
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 259695 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | William T Tow |
| NOMBRES | William T |
| APELLIDO | Tow |
| FIRMA | TOW W T |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Alliances Adrift
U.S. President Donald Trump's “America First” posture has visibly disdained alliance- building as a central component of U.S. foreign policy. In the Asia-Pacific, this has undermined what Robert Kaplan (2019) has characterized as “the mutual confidence and implicit understandings that joined the United States with its allies in Asia.” The postwar regional security order in this region, underpinned by the U.S. bilateral security alliance network, …
Why Has the San Francisco System Survived? Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Despite persistent forecasts of its imminent demise, the U.S. network of bilateral alliances in the Indo‐Pacific—commonly known as the “San Francisco System”—remains operative and viable. Its perpetuation largely defies established international relations theory which maintains that the lack of a commonly perceived threat leads to alliance dissolution. These U.S. security ties in Asia have instead endured as part of a larger American enterprise t…
Minilateral security's relevance to US strategy in the Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific region's security landscape is unfolding in highly uncertain and potentially explosive ways. The postwar American-led network of bilateral alliances – underpinned by concrete guarantees of extended deterrence and containment – is now yielding to a more diverse set of alignments and coalitions to manage an increasingly complex array of regional security issues. Multilateralism and minilateralism have emerged as two increasingly pr…
For Richer, for Poorer
U.S.Southeast Asia Relations in the Age of the Rebalance
Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region's dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is …
Roundtable
The accession of Donald Trump to the US presidency has triggered serious discussions within Australia’s policy community over the future of Australia-US security relations and Australia’s role in Southeast Asia. The United States’ withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has led to questions about Washington’s commitment to maintain a viable economic and strategic presence in the Asia-Pacific. Intensified tensions between China and the…
What's China Got to Do With It? U.S. Alliances, Partnerships in the Asia‐Pacific
U.S. alliances in the Asia‐Pacific are increasingly viewed as more than just threat‐centric policy instruments. Three core principles for alliance management underscore this reasoning: maintaining consensus about purpose and objectives; generating maximum alliance adaptability; and building capabilities to achieve full‐spectrum deterrence. The interests that compel U.S. regional allies to cooperate with Washington are this special issue's analyti…
International relations and foreign policy in the Australian Journal of Political Science
The Australian Journal of Political Science (AJPS) has evolved from a publication that deliberately relegated articles in international relations (IR) to a secondary status to one that has defined and encouraged leading-edge contributions to that field. This development can be attributed to successive AJPS editorial teams’ realisation that contemporary political problems are increasingly interconnected and that emerging approaches to IR reflect t…
The United States and Asia in 2014
Visible U.S. efforts to sustain influence in the Asia-Pacific met with mixed success. President Barack Obama’s visit to the region reinforced alliance commitments, but U.S. policy momentum on regional trade and diplomacy remained sluggish. Washington’s effective management of its relations with Beijing remains the key factor to how well the U.S. will fare with other regional actors and issues
The “East Wind” and Australia’s Alliance Politics
Ongoing reassessments in U.S. strategy in the Asia-Pacific have coincided with a major growth in Sino-Australian economic relations. The Australian-American alliance could be increasingly tested if U.S. policy planners are unsuccessful in generating more sensitive and proactive alliance security postures to ensure Australian support for key U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific
The United States and Asia in 2013
Prospects for a U.S. decline in global power generated by political strife and protracted economic recession at home have affected Washington’s regional diplomatic presence and strategic influence in the Asia-Pacific. Ongoing regional power politics and economic imperatives may constrain the ability of the U.S. to quickly recover from the largely self-imposed damage it has inflicted on its future role as a central regional player
The nuclear Waltz
Waltz (1981) argued in The spread of nuclear weapons that ‘more [nuclear weapons] may be better’ for securing international order. This argument stands apart from the majority view that nuclear non
Bilateral Perspectives on Regional Security
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
New Approaches to Human Security in Asia-Pacific
Bilateral Perspectives on Regional Security
This book assesses the key factors underlying such Australian-Japanese cooperation and those policy challenges that could impede it. Experts offer critical insights into why their two countries – trad
China's Pragmatic Security Policy
Guest Editor's foreword
What is Asian security architecture
‘Architecture’ has emerged as the new catchphrase in Asian security politics. Despite its growing centrality, insufficient attention has thus far been given to defining the term, often leading to its imprecise usage. This article seeks to redress that shortcoming. It reviews the ways in which various scholars and practitioners have employed the term ‘security architecture’ and highlights the anomalies that their often differing employment has cre…
Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific
Asia is experiencing major changes in its security relations. This book brings together respected experts to assess both the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the Asian security debate. Building on the latest research on Asia's regional security politics, it focuses on the 'regional-global nexus' as a way to understand the dynamics of Asian security politics and its intersection with global security. Contributors to the volume offer diverse…
Rules of engagement
The United States’ strategy in the Asia-Pacific stands at a historic juncture. How the new Obama administration conceives and implements its Asia-Pacific policy during its first term of office will have major and enduring ramifications for America's future. The new administration must have a clear vision of its country's national security interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as a better appreciation of the evolving dynamics of the region. To thi…
China, the U.S., and Power-Transition Theory
Asia ́ s Competitive “ Strategic Geometries”
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 30, Number 1, April 2008
America's Asia-Pacific Strategy Is Out of Kilter
If Washington is effective in linking its Asia-Pacific and global security postures, it can maintain its status as a preeminent power in the region. If it fails, it may find itself involved in a dangerous and unstable multipolar rivalry
Small State Security Postures
Small State Security Postures: Material Compensation and Normative Leadership in Denmark and New Zealand
Australia–Taiwan relations
Compared to its relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC), Australia's relations with Taiwan are often underrated. As a substantial trading partner and as a polity that has transformed into a robust ‘Asian democracy’, Taiwan constitutes a significant if highly complex dimension of evolving Australian foreign policy. A workshop was convened at the Australian National University in early May 2007 to consider the evolving geopolitical, eco…
The Utility of Human Security
Human security' is a promising but still underdeveloped paradigmatic approach to understanding contemporary security politics. We argue that tension between those embracing the politics of development and those supporting the human security paradigm has intensified because the transnational dimensions embodied within the latter approach have been under-assessed. The idea of 'threat' also needs to be identified with more precision for the human se…
Minilateral security's relevance to US strategy in the Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific region's security landscape is unfolding in highly uncertain and potentially explosive ways. The postwar American-led network of bilateral alliances – underpinned by concrete guarantees of extended deterrence and containment – is now yielding to a more diverse set of alignments and coalitions to manage an increasingly complex array of regional security issues. Multilateralism and minilateralism have emerged as two increasingly pr…
Deputy sheriff or independent ally? Evolving Australian–American ties in an ambiguous world order
The policies of Australia’s current government have been so close to the United States as to invite comparisons to an Australian ‘deputy sheriff’ executing the interests and policies of a US global marshal. Advocates of the ANZUS alliance disagree, citing the immense politico-strategic benefits Australia extracts from that relationship and insisting that ANZUS objectives are commensurate with a stable and just world order. Recent developments in …
Sino–American relations and the ‘Australian factor’
Orchestrating relations between its American security ally and increasingly crucial Chinese trading partner constitutes perhaps the major foreign policy challenge now confronting Australia. The Howard government insists that it can pursue such diplomacy without having to choose between the US and China in the event of a future great power regional confrontation. Both Washington and Beijing, however, appear intent on pulling Australia into their o…
What is Asian security architecture
‘Architecture’ has emerged as the new catchphrase in Asian security politics. Despite its growing centrality, insufficient attention has thus far been given to defining the term, often leading to its imprecise usage. This article seeks to redress that shortcoming. It reviews the ways in which various scholars and practitioners have employed the term ‘security architecture’ and highlights the anomalies that their often differing employment has cre…
Guest Editor's foreword
Rules of engagement
The United States’ strategy in the Asia-Pacific stands at a historic juncture. How the new Obama administration conceives and implements its Asia-Pacific policy during its first term of office will have major and enduring ramifications for America's future. The new administration must have a clear vision of its country's national security interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as a better appreciation of the evolving dynamics of the region. To thi…
What's China Got to Do With It? U.S. Alliances, Partnerships in the Asia‐Pacific
U.S. alliances in the Asia‐Pacific are increasingly viewed as more than just threat‐centric policy instruments. Three core principles for alliance management underscore this reasoning: maintaining consensus about purpose and objectives; generating maximum alliance adaptability; and building capabilities to achieve full‐spectrum deterrence. The interests that compel U.S. regional allies to cooperate with Washington are this special issue's analyti…
Northeast Asia and international security
The Anzus Dispute
Journal Article The Anzus Dispute: Testing U.S. Extended Deterrence in Alliance Politics Get access William T. Tow William T. Tow WILLIAM S. TOW is assistant professor of international relations at the University of Southern California. He has co-edlted three books and has written numerous journal articles dealing with Asian security issues. He is currently completing two manuscripts on NATO out-of-area problems (with Douglas T. Stuart) and on U.…
China's Military Turns to the West
Journal Article China's Military Turns to the West Get access William T. Tow, William T. Tow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Douglas T. Stuart Douglas T. Stuart Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 2, Spring 1981, Pages 286–300, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619165 Published: 01 April 1981
China's Pragmatic Security Policy
The utility of the human security agenda for policy‐makers
The idea of "human security" is gaining attention among policy‐makers and security analysts. Little scholarly attention has been given to the questions of why states accept (or reject) a human security agenda or how such an agenda is incorporated into policy practices. The article suggests that a human security approach is most likely to be applied when both humanitarian and national interests combine. Yet when states or organisations adopt a hum…
Gaining Security by Trashing the State? A Reply to Bellamy & Mcdonald
Why Has the San Francisco System Survived? Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Despite persistent forecasts of its imminent demise, the U.S. network of bilateral alliances in the Indo‐Pacific—commonly known as the “San Francisco System”—remains operative and viable. Its perpetuation largely defies established international relations theory which maintains that the lack of a commonly perceived threat leads to alliance dissolution. These U.S. security ties in Asia have instead endured as part of a larger American enterprise t…
Asia ́ s Competitive “ Strategic Geometries”
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 30, Number 1, April 2008
Australia, the United States and a 'China growing strong
How to deal with a rising China constitutes one of the most seminal challenges facing the ANZUS alliance since its inception a half a century ago. Australia must reconcile its geography and economic interests in Asia with its post-war strategic and historic cultural orientation towards the United States. It must succeed in this policy task without alienating either Beijing or Washington in the process. The extent to which this is achieved will sh…
Asia‐Pacific security regimes
Security regimes constitute an important test of the 'liberal' school of thought in contemporary international relations. In the Asia‐Pacific, interest is growing over how they may contribute to that region's future order and stability. It is argued here, however, that Asia‐Pacific security regimes cannot succeed unless 'realist' power‐balancing strategies are first applied, affording time for patterns of structural leadership to shape enduring s…
Building Sino-American Relations
Post‐cold war security in East Asia
As one of the two primary regions of East-West competition throughout the cold war, the winds of strategic change now sweeping through the Asia-Pacific region are nothing short of extraordinary. The international balance of power has shifted from one of strategic bipolarity dominated by superpower competition to a more diffuse and complex multipolarity. President Bush has recognized this geopolitical transformation with his call for a ‘new intern…
China Under Threat
Journal Article China Under Threat: The Politics of Strategy and Diplomacy Get access China Under Threat: The Politics of Strategy and Diplomacy. By Melvin Gurtov and Byong-Moo Hwang. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1981. (Distrib. in UK by CCJ.) 336 pp. $28.70. £13.75. William T. Tow William T. Tow 1University of Southern California, German Graduate Program Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Western defence in the Asian‐pacific region
Western defence in the Asian‐pacific region
The Janzus Option
Research Article| December 01 1978 The Janzus Option: A Key to Asian/Pacific Security William T. Tow William T. Tow Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1949) 18 (12): 1221–1234. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643609 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite …
Chinese Strategic Thought
Anzus and American security
China Under Threat
Journal Article China Under Threat: The Politics of Strategy and Diplomacy Get access China Under Threat: The Politics of Strategy and Diplomacy. By Melvin Gurtov and Byong-Moo Hwang. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1981. (Distrib. in UK by CCJ.) 336 pp. $28.70. £13.75. William T. Tow William T. Tow 1University of Southern California, German Graduate Program Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
China's Military Turns to the West
Journal Article China's Military Turns to the West Get access William T. Tow, William T. Tow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Douglas T. Stuart Douglas T. Stuart Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 2, Spring 1981, Pages 286–300, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619165 Published: 01 April 1981
The Future of U.S.-China Relations
China, the Soviet Union, and the West
U.S. Foreign Policy and Asian-Pacific Security. A Transregional Approach
Sino-Japanese Security Cooperation
[T]he normalization of relations between the United States and China possessed a dual meaning. On the one hand, it normalized and stabilized the political order in the Asian/Pacific region; on the other, since it served as a means of restraining the Soviet Union, to some extent it aroused the Soviets. This is an extremely delicate diplomatic game played by the United States ... [and] Japan is involved to a great extent in this game [report of Jap…
China, the Soviet Union and the West
Chinese Defence Policy
Chinese Defence Policy
Chinese Foreign Policy
The Anzus Dispute
Journal Article The Anzus Dispute: Testing U.S. Extended Deterrence in Alliance Politics Get access William T. Tow William T. Tow WILLIAM S. TOW is assistant professor of international relations at the University of Southern California. He has co-edlted three books and has written numerous journal articles dealing with Asian security issues. He is currently completing two manuscripts on NATO out-of-area problems (with Douglas T. Stuart) and on U.…
Post‐cold war security in East Asia
As one of the two primary regions of East-West competition throughout the cold war, the winds of strategic change now sweeping through the Asia-Pacific region are nothing short of extraordinary. The international balance of power has shifted from one of strategic bipolarity dominated by superpower competition to a more diffuse and complex multipolarity. President Bush has recognized this geopolitical transformation with his call for a ‘new intern…
Security and sovereignty in the Pacific
Common Security and Non‐Provocative Defence: Alternative Approaches to the Security Dilemma, by Geoffrey Wiseman. Peace Research Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 1989. v +101 pp. $A10.00. ISBN 0–7315–0565–4. Two special reports from the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis Inc, published by Brassey's (US) Inc., Washington, New York, London, Oxford, 1990: The South Pacific: Emerging Security Is…
Northeast Asia and international security
Building Sino-American Relations
Subregional Security Cooperation in the Third World
Within the past decade, traditional regional security organizations formed during the Cold War have gradually been supplanted by more indigenous groupings designed specifically to address local security problems. Professor Tow argues that these subregional security organizations (SRSOs) have provided their members with a new self-confidence, encouraging them to formulate their common security interests and to face the outside world in a more unif…
Contending Security Approaches in the Asia-Pacific Region
The author would like to thank Chris Leithner, Douglas T. Stuart, and Joanne Wright for their comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this article. Karen Davis and Alison Kessels extended invaluable logistical support
Changing US force levels and regional security
Asia‐Pacific security regimes
Security regimes constitute an important test of the 'liberal' school of thought in contemporary international relations. In the Asia‐Pacific, interest is growing over how they may contribute to that region's future order and stability. It is argued here, however, that Asia‐Pacific security regimes cannot succeed unless 'realist' power‐balancing strategies are first applied, affording time for patterns of structural leadership to shape enduring s…
North-East Asian Regional Security
Part 1 Institution building: North-East Asian regional security and the role of international institutions - an Australasian perspective ASEAN Regional Forum as a model for North-East Asian security? China and North-East Asia's regional security a Japanese perspective with special reference to the international nuclear management regime. Part 2 Pressure points - threats to peace and stability in North-East Asia: China incorporates Hong Kong: impl…
Australian-American Relations
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