Nick Bisley
Biographic Data
| ID | 738795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Bisley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Bisley |
| SIGNATURE | BISLEY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6216-3575 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Australia in World Affairs 2011–2015: Navigating the New International Disorder
The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The twelfth volume, Australia in World Affairs 2011–2015: Navigating the New International Disorder, covered a turbulent period both domestically and internationally. Australia had four Prime Ministers in this period alone, there were growing challenges in the Middle East and Europe, as well as on Australi…
The Quad, Aukus and Australian Security Minilateralism: China’s Rise and New Approaches to Security Cooperation
Since 2017 Australia has adopted a gloomy outlook about Asia's security environment and now sees the PRC as a source of insecurity. A key component of its response to this has been the turn to 'minilaterals'. This article examines Australia's approach to the Quad and AUKUS and explains why Canberra has turned to these minilaterals and what this tells us about the nature of security cooperation in an Asia marked by growing geopolitical contestatio…
Contested Asia and the return of the Quadrilateral Security Initiative
In 2021 the Quadrilateral Security Initiative, or 'Quad', held its first in-person leaders' summit convened by US President Joe Biden.The re-emergence and growing prominence of the Australia, India, Japan and US grouping reflects the increasingly risky regional strategic dynamics in which great power competition is set to be a major force for decades to come.In this piece I provide some context to the emergence of the Quad and a number of reflect…
For a progressive realism: Australian foreign policy in the 21st century
What ideas and concepts might be used to reinvigorate a progressive approach to Australian foreign policy? In contrast to the clarity of the international vision provided by right-wing movements, there is uncertainty about the contours of a progressive approach to contemporary Australian foreign policy. This article outlines the basis of a ‘progressive realism’ that can challenge right-wing accounts. Progressive realism combines a ‘realistic’ dia…
Asia's Regional Security Order: Rules, Power and Status
East Asia's security order is experiencing significant change as it moves from a stable and peaceful geopolitical setting into one of increasingly open contestation. There is no scholarly consensus about the core character of East Asia's old security order, thus making analysis of this period of change especially challenging. The aim of this paper is two‐fold. Firstly, it seeks to provide some order to the broader debate about East Asia's regiona…
Introduction: East Asia's Contested Security Order
East Asia's security environment is changing rapidly. Over the past five years or so, the security order has become increasingly unsettled as it is buffeted by a complex array of forces. The region is entering a period of growing rivalry and animosity states are uncertain over the strategic intentions of great and rising powers, nationalism is an increasingly pervasive force, and military spending has been ramping up in many countries over the pa…
Australia’s American Alliance and the networking of forces in East Asia
Contested Asia's ‘New’ multilateralism and regional order
Multilateralism has become an increasingly significant part of Asia's international relations. This paper critiques the premise that there are two phases of regional multilateralism, pre- and post-global financial crisis and instead argues that there has been one long 25-year expansion phase. Initially, this was prompted by the risks and opportunities of globalization but was adapted as a strategy to manage a changing regional order. More recentl…
Australia’s engagement with China: From fear to greed and back again
This paper examines how Australia has managed its relationship with China. It looks at the broad trends in the relationship, with a focus on the decades after recognition in 1972. The second part examines the recent past, and particularly the ways in which Australia’s active courtship of China has begun to be tempered by concerns about the destabilizing security and strategic consequences of the country’s return to power. It assesses the options …
Australia and the Rules-Based Order in Asia
In response to a more-contested Asia, Australia has placed the ‘rules-based order’ at the heart of its declaratory strategic policy. This move signals Australia’s commitment to this order, to its alliance with the United States, and to a more active strategic role in the region. However, a failure to match rhetoric with action risks undermining Australia’s strategic interests by emboldening China and reducing Australia’s value as an American ally
Roundtable: Asean at Fifty and Beyond
Australian Journal of International Affairs Call for Special Issue Proposals for Publication in Volume 71 (2017)
China's Engagement with Regional Security Multilateralism: The Case of the Shangri-La Dialogue
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 37, Number 1, April 2015
Australia and Asia’s Trilateral Dilemmas
Asia’s middle powers face a trilateral dilemma stemming from their relationships with the U.S. and China. This paper uses the Australian example to examine the dilemma. It shows that Australia has bound itself to the U.S. because of domestic political factors, cost considerations, a belief that it can keep its interests separate, and its perception of regional threats. The paper then argues that others are likely to resolve their trilateral dilem…
An ally for all the years to come’: Why Australia is not a conflicted US ally
In 2011, Australia communicated a clear choice about its strategic future. It would continue to cleave tightly to the US alliance, expand its military links and work to advance the USA's conception of regional order. Given its economic interests, why has Australia bound itself to the US alliance? What lies behind this strong commitment and what would it take for Australia to change its relationship with the USA? This article presents an analysis …
Rebalance To Where: US Strategic Geography in Asia
In late 2011 and early 2012, the Obama administration rolled out its most significant strategic policy decision: the ‘rebalancing’ of its foreign- and defence-policy priorities towards Asia. The ad
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy: July to December 2011
An Introduction to International Relations
Invaluable to students and those approaching the subject for the first time, An Introduction to International Relations, Second Edition provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to international relations, its traditions and its changing nature in an era of globalisation. Thoroughly revised and updated, it features chapters written by a range of experts from around the world. It presents a global perspective on the theories, history, …
China's Rise and the Making of East Asia's Security Architecture
This article examines the recent growth in multilateral security processes, the efforts to forge a ‘security architecture’, and focuses particularly on the role that China's rise has played in this process. It sketches out growth in Asian security cooperation and the efforts to forge a new security architecture. It then considers the question of China as a cause of this increase in security cooperation as well as China's own motives in actively e…
Asia's transformation, international relations and public policy
This article considers Hugh White's assessment of how China's rise is changing Asia's international order. It particularly welcomes White's intervention as a break from Australian International Relations scholarship's collective tendency to disengage from serious debates about public policy. It argues that while White's claims are plausible, the outcomes he paints are not as likely as he believes due to Chinese domestic economic and social constr…
Securing the “ Anchor of Regional Stability”: The Transformation of the US-Japan Alliance and East Asian Security
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 30, Number 1, April 2008
The Japan-Australia security declaration and the changing regional security setting: Wheels, Webs and Beyond
The March 2007 Japan-Australia Security Declaration has garnered more than its share of hyperbole. Described variously as an historic milestone for peace or an agreement designed to encircle China; the declaration's actual strategic consequences are somewhat unclear. The purpose of this article is to provide a critical analysis of the security declaration and to assess its impact in the context of the changing patterns of the region's security se…
Rethinking Globalization
East Asia's Changing Regional Architecture: Towards an East Asian Economic Community
the opening years of the twenty-first century, there is a growing sense that the economic and political centre of gravity in international affairs is shifting toward East Asia. In response to increasing economic integration, the broader challenges of globalization and growing security concerns, regionalism in East Asia is on the rise. In particular the increasing participation and respective weight of regional powers in the international economy,…
Neither Empire nor Republic: American Power and Regional Order in the Asia-Pacific
An ally for all the years to come’: Why Australia is not a conflicted US ally
In 2011, Australia communicated a clear choice about its strategic future. It would continue to cleave tightly to the US alliance, expand its military links and work to advance the USA's conception of regional order. Given its economic interests, why has Australia bound itself to the US alliance? What lies behind this strong commitment and what would it take for Australia to change its relationship with the USA? This article presents an analysis …
The Japan-Australia security declaration and the changing regional security setting: Wheels, Webs and Beyond
The March 2007 Japan-Australia Security Declaration has garnered more than its share of hyperbole. Described variously as an historic milestone for peace or an agreement designed to encircle China; the declaration's actual strategic consequences are somewhat unclear. The purpose of this article is to provide a critical analysis of the security declaration and to assess its impact in the context of the changing patterns of the region's security se…
Rebalance To Where: US Strategic Geography in Asia
In late 2011 and early 2012, the Obama administration rolled out its most significant strategic policy decision: the ‘rebalancing’ of its foreign- and defence-policy priorities towards Asia. The ad
Counter-revolution, order and international politics
Every social revolution has elicited some form of counter-revolutionary response from the international system. The impulse to reverse revolutionary transformation has much to tell us about the dynamics of social revolution as well as the nature of international order. The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between counter-revolution and international order. First it establishes a basic conceptual framework of internationa…
Contested Asia's ‘New’ multilateralism and regional order
Multilateralism has become an increasingly significant part of Asia's international relations. This paper critiques the premise that there are two phases of regional multilateralism, pre- and post-global financial crisis and instead argues that there has been one long 25-year expansion phase. Initially, this was prompted by the risks and opportunities of globalization but was adapted as a strategy to manage a changing regional order. More recentl…
Australia’s engagement with China: From fear to greed and back again
This paper examines how Australia has managed its relationship with China. It looks at the broad trends in the relationship, with a focus on the decades after recognition in 1972. The second part examines the recent past, and particularly the ways in which Australia’s active courtship of China has begun to be tempered by concerns about the destabilizing security and strategic consequences of the country’s return to power. It assesses the options …
China's Rise and the Making of East Asia's Security Architecture
This article examines the recent growth in multilateral security processes, the efforts to forge a ‘security architecture’, and focuses particularly on the role that China's rise has played in this process. It sketches out growth in Asian security cooperation and the efforts to forge a new security architecture. It then considers the question of China as a cause of this increase in security cooperation as well as China's own motives in actively e…
For a progressive realism: Australian foreign policy in the 21st century
What ideas and concepts might be used to reinvigorate a progressive approach to Australian foreign policy? In contrast to the clarity of the international vision provided by right-wing movements, there is uncertainty about the contours of a progressive approach to contemporary Australian foreign policy. This article outlines the basis of a ‘progressive realism’ that can challenge right-wing accounts. Progressive realism combines a ‘realistic’ dia…
The Quad, Aukus and Australian Security Minilateralism: China’s Rise and New Approaches to Security Cooperation
Since 2017 Australia has adopted a gloomy outlook about Asia's security environment and now sees the PRC as a source of insecurity. A key component of its response to this has been the turn to 'minilaterals'. This article examines Australia's approach to the Quad and AUKUS and explains why Canberra has turned to these minilaterals and what this tells us about the nature of security cooperation in an Asia marked by growing geopolitical contestatio…
Australia and the Rules-Based Order in Asia
In response to a more-contested Asia, Australia has placed the ‘rules-based order’ at the heart of its declaratory strategic policy. This move signals Australia’s commitment to this order, to its alliance with the United States, and to a more active strategic role in the region. However, a failure to match rhetoric with action risks undermining Australia’s strategic interests by emboldening China and reducing Australia’s value as an American ally
Asia's transformation, international relations and public policy
This article considers Hugh White's assessment of how China's rise is changing Asia's international order. It particularly welcomes White's intervention as a break from Australian International Relations scholarship's collective tendency to disengage from serious debates about public policy. It argues that while White's claims are plausible, the outcomes he paints are not as likely as he believes due to Chinese domestic economic and social constr…
Roundtable: Asean at Fifty and Beyond
China's Engagement with Regional Security Multilateralism: The Case of the Shangri-La Dialogue
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 37, Number 1, April 2015
Australia and Asia’s Trilateral Dilemmas
Asia’s middle powers face a trilateral dilemma stemming from their relationships with the U.S. and China. This paper uses the Australian example to examine the dilemma. It shows that Australia has bound itself to the U.S. because of domestic political factors, cost considerations, a belief that it can keep its interests separate, and its perception of regional threats. The paper then argues that others are likely to resolve their trilateral dilem…
Securing the “ Anchor of Regional Stability”: The Transformation of the US-Japan Alliance and East Asian Security
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 30, Number 1, April 2008
An Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives
Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives provides comprehensive coverage of its subject while capturing distinctively Australian perspectives and concerns. Designed for undergraduate students this textbook brings together leading Australian scholars to present lively introductory analyses of the theories, actors, issues, institutions and processes that animate international relations today. Introduction to International Re…
Counter-revolution, order and international politics
Every social revolution has elicited some form of counter-revolutionary response from the international system. The impulse to reverse revolutionary transformation has much to tell us about the dynamics of social revolution as well as the nature of international order. The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between counter-revolution and international order. First it establishes a basic conceptual framework of internationa…
Neither Empire nor Republic: American Power and Regional Order in the Asia-Pacific
Rethinking Globalization
East Asia's Changing Regional Architecture: Towards an East Asian Economic Community
the opening years of the twenty-first century, there is a growing sense that the economic and political centre of gravity in international affairs is shifting toward East Asia. In response to increasing economic integration, the broader challenges of globalization and growing security concerns, regionalism in East Asia is on the rise. In particular the increasing participation and respective weight of regional powers in the international economy,…
Securing the “ Anchor of Regional Stability”: The Transformation of the US-Japan Alliance and East Asian Security
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 30, Number 1, April 2008
The Japan-Australia security declaration and the changing regional security setting: Wheels, Webs and Beyond
The March 2007 Japan-Australia Security Declaration has garnered more than its share of hyperbole. Described variously as an historic milestone for peace or an agreement designed to encircle China; the declaration's actual strategic consequences are somewhat unclear. The purpose of this article is to provide a critical analysis of the security declaration and to assess its impact in the context of the changing patterns of the region's security se…
An Introduction to International Relations
Invaluable to students and those approaching the subject for the first time, An Introduction to International Relations, Second Edition provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to international relations, its traditions and its changing nature in an era of globalisation. Thoroughly revised and updated, it features chapters written by a range of experts from around the world. It presents a global perspective on the theories, history, …
China's Rise and the Making of East Asia's Security Architecture
This article examines the recent growth in multilateral security processes, the efforts to forge a ‘security architecture’, and focuses particularly on the role that China's rise has played in this process. It sketches out growth in Asian security cooperation and the efforts to forge a new security architecture. It then considers the question of China as a cause of this increase in security cooperation as well as China's own motives in actively e…
Asia's transformation, international relations and public policy
This article considers Hugh White's assessment of how China's rise is changing Asia's international order. It particularly welcomes White's intervention as a break from Australian International Relations scholarship's collective tendency to disengage from serious debates about public policy. It argues that while White's claims are plausible, the outcomes he paints are not as likely as he believes due to Chinese domestic economic and social constr…
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy: July to December 2011
An ally for all the years to come’: Why Australia is not a conflicted US ally
In 2011, Australia communicated a clear choice about its strategic future. It would continue to cleave tightly to the US alliance, expand its military links and work to advance the USA's conception of regional order. Given its economic interests, why has Australia bound itself to the US alliance? What lies behind this strong commitment and what would it take for Australia to change its relationship with the USA? This article presents an analysis …
Rebalance To Where: US Strategic Geography in Asia
In late 2011 and early 2012, the Obama administration rolled out its most significant strategic policy decision: the ‘rebalancing’ of its foreign- and defence-policy priorities towards Asia. The ad
Australia and Asia’s Trilateral Dilemmas
Asia’s middle powers face a trilateral dilemma stemming from their relationships with the U.S. and China. This paper uses the Australian example to examine the dilemma. It shows that Australia has bound itself to the U.S. because of domestic political factors, cost considerations, a belief that it can keep its interests separate, and its perception of regional threats. The paper then argues that others are likely to resolve their trilateral dilem…
Australian Journal of International Affairs Call for Special Issue Proposals for Publication in Volume 71 (2017)
China's Engagement with Regional Security Multilateralism: The Case of the Shangri-La Dialogue
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 37, Number 1, April 2015
Roundtable: Asean at Fifty and Beyond
Contested Asia's ‘New’ multilateralism and regional order
Multilateralism has become an increasingly significant part of Asia's international relations. This paper critiques the premise that there are two phases of regional multilateralism, pre- and post-global financial crisis and instead argues that there has been one long 25-year expansion phase. Initially, this was prompted by the risks and opportunities of globalization but was adapted as a strategy to manage a changing regional order. More recentl…
Australia’s engagement with China: From fear to greed and back again
This paper examines how Australia has managed its relationship with China. It looks at the broad trends in the relationship, with a focus on the decades after recognition in 1972. The second part examines the recent past, and particularly the ways in which Australia’s active courtship of China has begun to be tempered by concerns about the destabilizing security and strategic consequences of the country’s return to power. It assesses the options …
Australia and the Rules-Based Order in Asia
In response to a more-contested Asia, Australia has placed the ‘rules-based order’ at the heart of its declaratory strategic policy. This move signals Australia’s commitment to this order, to its alliance with the United States, and to a more active strategic role in the region. However, a failure to match rhetoric with action risks undermining Australia’s strategic interests by emboldening China and reducing Australia’s value as an American ally
Asia's Regional Security Order: Rules, Power and Status
East Asia's security order is experiencing significant change as it moves from a stable and peaceful geopolitical setting into one of increasingly open contestation. There is no scholarly consensus about the core character of East Asia's old security order, thus making analysis of this period of change especially challenging. The aim of this paper is two‐fold. Firstly, it seeks to provide some order to the broader debate about East Asia's regiona…
Introduction: East Asia's Contested Security Order
East Asia's security environment is changing rapidly. Over the past five years or so, the security order has become increasingly unsettled as it is buffeted by a complex array of forces. The region is entering a period of growing rivalry and animosity states are uncertain over the strategic intentions of great and rising powers, nationalism is an increasingly pervasive force, and military spending has been ramping up in many countries over the pa…
Australia’s American Alliance and the networking of forces in East Asia
Contested Asia and the return of the Quadrilateral Security Initiative
In 2021 the Quadrilateral Security Initiative, or 'Quad', held its first in-person leaders' summit convened by US President Joe Biden.The re-emergence and growing prominence of the Australia, India, Japan and US grouping reflects the increasingly risky regional strategic dynamics in which great power competition is set to be a major force for decades to come.In this piece I provide some context to the emergence of the Quad and a number of reflect…
For a progressive realism: Australian foreign policy in the 21st century
What ideas and concepts might be used to reinvigorate a progressive approach to Australian foreign policy? In contrast to the clarity of the international vision provided by right-wing movements, there is uncertainty about the contours of a progressive approach to contemporary Australian foreign policy. This article outlines the basis of a ‘progressive realism’ that can challenge right-wing accounts. Progressive realism combines a ‘realistic’ dia…
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