Thomas Wilkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3647991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Wilkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkins |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Hub-and-Spokes "Plus" Model of us Alliances in the Indo-Pacific
A reassessment the nature of "alliances" and "alignments" since the end of the Cold War, both practically and conceptually, is long overdue. Treaty alliances have become partially obsolescent as new models of security cooperation, such as the 'strategic partnership', and other "minilateral" configurations, have emerged as preferred instruments of alignment. The evolving nature of alliance and alignment is nowhere better illustrated than in the me…
China’s Challenges and International Order Transition
China’s Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond the “Thucydides’s Trap” Huiyun Feng and Kai He eds China’s Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond the “Thucydides’s Trap” Feng Huiyun He Kai eds, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, US$80.00, Hardback, ISBN: 978-0-472-13176-1, 330 pp. 13 charts, 2020 Thomas Wilkins Thomas Wilkins University of Sydney Email: [email protected] Search for other works by …
Middle power hedging in the era of security/economic disconnect
Deeping superpower rivalry between the United States and China has created acute strategic dilemmas for secondary powers in the Indo-Pacific such as Australia and Japan. This predicament is exacerbated by their divergent security and economic interests which cut across the superpower divide; a condition dubbed a ‘security/economic disconnect’. These two intimately related dynamics preclude clear-cut implementation of conventional balancing/bandwa…
Hegemony and the US–Japan Alliance
Hegemony and the US–Japan Alliance Hegemony and the US–Japan Alliance, by Misato Matsuoka. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018, 184 pp., $119.96 (ISBN: 978-1-138-30347-8) Thomas WILKINS Thomas WILKINS University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 23, Issue 2, Summer 2020, Pages 334–336, https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyaa006 Published: 23 June 2020
Adoption, accommodation or opposition? - regional powers respond to American-led Indo-Pacific strategy
This article examines the new prominence accorded to the “Indo-Pacific” (IP) concept in the strategic narratives championed by the US and its closest allies, (Japan and Australia), and then juxtaposes this with the responses of other key regional powers. To this purpose, Part I distils a concise conceptual model encompassing three interlocking facets – mental maps, political/ideological drivers, and visions of regional order – designed to structu…
Australia and middle power approaches to Asia Pacific regionalism
This article presents a liberal-institutionalist conceptual framework drawn from Middle Power theory to analyse Australian foreign policy approaches towards Asia Pacific regionalism. Building on precedents set by the former Keating administration, the Labor government of Rudd/Gillard (2007–13) undertook high-profile efforts not only to engage, but to champion, the regionalism process in the Asia Pacific. This enterprise became fused with a self-p…
Middle Powers and the Rise of China
The new ‘Pacific Century’ and the rise of China
The re-emergence of the ‘Pacific Century’, or ‘Asia-Pacific Century’, discourse centred on the rise of Chinese power raises important questions in the discipline of international relations (IR). These questions relate to the conceptualisation of the Pacific Century discourse, its application to the contemporary empirical case, and its relationship and amenability to IR theories. In order to address these questions, the article subjects the concep…
Australia and middle power approaches to Asia Pacific regionalism
This article presents a liberal-institutionalist conceptual framework drawn from Middle Power theory to analyse Australian foreign policy approaches towards Asia Pacific regionalism. Building on precedents set by the former Keating administration, the Labor government of Rudd/Gillard (2007–13) undertook high-profile efforts not only to engage, but to champion, the regionalism process in the Asia Pacific. This enterprise became fused with a self-p…
Adoption, accommodation or opposition? - regional powers respond to American-led Indo-Pacific strategy
This article examines the new prominence accorded to the “Indo-Pacific” (IP) concept in the strategic narratives championed by the US and its closest allies, (Japan and Australia), and then juxtaposes this with the responses of other key regional powers. To this purpose, Part I distils a concise conceptual model encompassing three interlocking facets – mental maps, political/ideological drivers, and visions of regional order – designed to structu…
A Hub-and-Spokes "Plus" Model of us Alliances in the Indo-Pacific
A reassessment the nature of "alliances" and "alignments" since the end of the Cold War, both practically and conceptually, is long overdue. Treaty alliances have become partially obsolescent as new models of security cooperation, such as the 'strategic partnership', and other "minilateral" configurations, have emerged as preferred instruments of alignment. The evolving nature of alliance and alignment is nowhere better illustrated than in the me…
The new ‘Pacific Century’ and the rise of China
The re-emergence of the ‘Pacific Century’, or ‘Asia-Pacific Century’, discourse centred on the rise of Chinese power raises important questions in the discipline of international relations (IR). These questions relate to the conceptualisation of the Pacific Century discourse, its application to the contemporary empirical case, and its relationship and amenability to IR theories. In order to address these questions, the article subjects the concep…
Middle power hedging in the era of security/economic disconnect
Deeping superpower rivalry between the United States and China has created acute strategic dilemmas for secondary powers in the Indo-Pacific such as Australia and Japan. This predicament is exacerbated by their divergent security and economic interests which cut across the superpower divide; a condition dubbed a ‘security/economic disconnect’. These two intimately related dynamics preclude clear-cut implementation of conventional balancing/bandwa…
China’s Challenges and International Order Transition
China’s Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond the “Thucydides’s Trap” Huiyun Feng and Kai He eds China’s Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond the “Thucydides’s Trap” Feng Huiyun He Kai eds, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, US$80.00, Hardback, ISBN: 978-0-472-13176-1, 330 pp. 13 charts, 2020 Thomas Wilkins Thomas Wilkins University of Sydney Email: [email protected] Search for other works by …
The new ‘Pacific Century’ and the rise of China
The re-emergence of the ‘Pacific Century’, or ‘Asia-Pacific Century’, discourse centred on the rise of Chinese power raises important questions in the discipline of international relations (IR). These questions relate to the conceptualisation of the Pacific Century discourse, its application to the contemporary empirical case, and its relationship and amenability to IR theories. In order to address these questions, the article subjects the concep…
Middle Powers and the Rise of China
Australia and middle power approaches to Asia Pacific regionalism
This article presents a liberal-institutionalist conceptual framework drawn from Middle Power theory to analyse Australian foreign policy approaches towards Asia Pacific regionalism. Building on precedents set by the former Keating administration, the Labor government of Rudd/Gillard (2007–13) undertook high-profile efforts not only to engage, but to champion, the regionalism process in the Asia Pacific. This enterprise became fused with a self-p…
Hegemony and the US–Japan Alliance
Hegemony and the US–Japan Alliance Hegemony and the US–Japan Alliance, by Misato Matsuoka. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018, 184 pp., $119.96 (ISBN: 978-1-138-30347-8) Thomas WILKINS Thomas WILKINS University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 23, Issue 2, Summer 2020, Pages 334–336, https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyaa006 Published: 23 June 2020
Adoption, accommodation or opposition? - regional powers respond to American-led Indo-Pacific strategy
This article examines the new prominence accorded to the “Indo-Pacific” (IP) concept in the strategic narratives championed by the US and its closest allies, (Japan and Australia), and then juxtaposes this with the responses of other key regional powers. To this purpose, Part I distils a concise conceptual model encompassing three interlocking facets – mental maps, political/ideological drivers, and visions of regional order – designed to structu…
China’s Challenges and International Order Transition
China’s Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond the “Thucydides’s Trap” Huiyun Feng and Kai He eds China’s Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond the “Thucydides’s Trap” Feng Huiyun He Kai eds, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, US$80.00, Hardback, ISBN: 978-0-472-13176-1, 330 pp. 13 charts, 2020 Thomas Wilkins Thomas Wilkins University of Sydney Email: [email protected] Search for other works by …
Middle power hedging in the era of security/economic disconnect
Deeping superpower rivalry between the United States and China has created acute strategic dilemmas for secondary powers in the Indo-Pacific such as Australia and Japan. This predicament is exacerbated by their divergent security and economic interests which cut across the superpower divide; a condition dubbed a ‘security/economic disconnect’. These two intimately related dynamics preclude clear-cut implementation of conventional balancing/bandwa…
A Hub-and-Spokes "Plus" Model of us Alliances in the Indo-Pacific
A reassessment the nature of "alliances" and "alignments" since the end of the Cold War, both practically and conceptually, is long overdue. Treaty alliances have become partially obsolescent as new models of security cooperation, such as the 'strategic partnership', and other "minilateral" configurations, have emerged as preferred instruments of alignment. The evolving nature of alliance and alignment is nowhere better illustrated than in the me…
Political science (7 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (6 works) · China (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Power (physics (3 works)