Richard Tanter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 247828 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Tanter |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Tanter |
| ASSINATURA | TANTER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Department of Social and Political Studies, Swinburne Institute of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Prepping for a China War
In recent years, successive Australian governments, in coordination with the United States, have responded to the dramatic rise of China with military and economic policies that directly challenge the possibility of accommodation with China
Aukus and 'the International Rules-based Order' at the IAEA
In the year since the United States, United Kingdom, and Australian governments announced the formation of AUKUS, a new alliance whose centrepiece is to be the supply of nuclear-powered submarines to Australia, a robust critique of the nuclear weapons expansion has emerged in Australia, China, and the International Atomic Energy Association among others
The Nagasaki Peace Discourse
The Nagasaki Peace Discourse: City Hall and the Quest for a Nuclear Free World." Journal of Contemporary Asia, 50(3), pp. 478–479
Touring the American empire of bases with the Marines
In the decade after the end of the Cold War, triumphalist U.S. public intellectuals, liberal and conservative alike, were trying on the mantle of 'empire' for size.
Tightly Bound
Contemporary Australia is a case of dependent, high-technology liberal militarization, but with distinctive characteristics pointing to a model that must look beyond standard concerns with increasing national defense budgets, more and better weapons systems, an "exceptionalist" approach to immigration security and a predilection for use of military force in international affairs.In a world and time where militarization is a global norm embedded i…
Donald Trump's Japanese and South Korean Nuclear Threat to China
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is often now cited by the remaining band of optimists in Washington as a safe pair of hands, limiting the influence of the foreign policy manias permeating the White House. Unfortunately for both the United States and the rest of the world, Tillerson's public comments during his mid-March visits to Japan, South Korea and China show the precise opposite by threatening China with U.S. encouragement of acquisition of…
US Signals Intelligence (Sigint) Activities in Japan 1945 - 2015
Due to government secrecy, our citizens are often ignorant of the fact that our garrisons encircle the planet. This vast network of American bases on every continent except Antarctica actually constitutes a new form of empire - an empire of bases
The Maritime Self-Defence Force Mission in the Indian Ocean
Editors' note: The final version of this article was received just prior to the announcement of Fukuda Yasuo's resignation as Prime Minister. Tanter comments: Fukuda's resignation will change nothing in the underlying domestic and alliance strains that lead to his decision to resign. The next Liberal Democratic Party leader, whether Aso Taro, Koike Yuriko, or someone else, will face the same limitations, and the same demands on military policy, b…
Global Problems, Complexity, and Civil Society in East Asia
Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia offers the latest understanding of complex global problems in the region, including nuclear weapons, urban insecurity, energy, and climate change. Detailed case studies of China, North and South Korea, and Japan demonstrate the importance of civil society and ‘civic diplomacy’ in reaching shared solutions to these problems in East Asia and beyond
The Wired Seas of Asia
While most recently mainstream discussion of peace and security in Asia has focussed on the rise of China and its consequences, a little noticed arms race that has been underway since the end of the Cold War involves many more countries than China. According to Desmond Ball, one of its most constant analysts, this began with widespread modernization of armed forces after the end of the Cold War, but has moved on to continuous systematic increases…
Australia in America's Third Iraq War
Little more than two months after the start of bombing operations, Australia's new war in Iraq is following the path of its predecessor, a path marked by Australian subordination to American interests, irrelevance to Australian national interests, casual disregard for Iraqi sovereignty and law, increasingly severe restriction of information provided to the Australian public, and an inclination to escalation
Indonesia, Australia and the Edward Snowden Legacy
A near perfect storm has descended on Australian relations with its nominal strategic partner and largest neighbour, Indonesia, to the point where the Indonesian foreign minister, standing beside John Kerry in Jakarta, said it was "very simple." "Australia must decide if Indonesia is a friend or an enemy."Courtesy of Edward Snowden, the Australian government is discovering that an asymmetry in electronic surveillance capacity does not trump the f…
The US Military Presence in Australia
Through the ANZUS alliance, Australia, like Japan and South Korea, has been a key part of the United States "hub-and-spokes" Asia-Pacific alliance structure for more than sixty years, dating back to the earliest years of the Cold War and the conclusion of post-war peace with Japan. An historical chameleon, the shape of the alliance has continually shifted - from its original purpose for the Menzies government as a US guarantee against post-war Ja…
An Australian Role in Reducing the Prospects of China-Japan War over the Senkakus/Diaoyutai
The idea that China and Japan are slipping towards war over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands territorial conflict is deeply shocking. How could the world's second and third largest economies even consider the possibility of war over half a dozen uninhabitable islets? For Australians, the question is more serious still: could Australia be drawn into the dangerous conflict between its two largest trading partners on the side of Japan because of its defen…
Just in Case”
This paper examines the foundations and rationale for Australian reliance on US assurances of extended nuclear deterrence. The Australian model of extended nuclear deterrence is marked by its lack of public presence, a lack of certainty about its standing and character in US eyes, its lack of a direct nuclear threat, and its resurgence at a time when nuclear abolition possibilities are being embraced by the leader of the deterrence provider. Aust…
Beyond the Nuclear Umbrella
This paper provides an overview of the Nautilus Institute's exploration of two inter‐linked but highly contested aspects of the strategic nuclear situation on the Korean peninsula: the complexity and uncertainty associated with US assurances of nuclear extended deterrence to South Korea (and Japan), and the potential contribution of a nuclear‐weapon‐free zone to shifting the current impasse concerning North Korean nuclear weapons. The theoretical…
Nuclear Power, Risk Management and Democratic Accountability in Indonesia
In late 2009 Indonesia revived a proposal to build a nuclear power facility on the seismically active Muria Peninsula of north central Java over sustained civil society opposition including the voice of moderate Islam. The following assessment by Richard Tanter, Arabella Imhoff and David Von Hippel poses a range of issues about siting decisions in light of state-society relations and nuclear power feasibility. The issues are as relevant to mature…
Rethinking Extended Nuclear Deterrence in the Defence of Australia
US intelligence also helped us to assess the risk of Soviet nuclear strikes on Australia in the event of global nuclear war. We were able to identify the locations in Australia that were targeted by Moscow and assess likely casualties. We judged, for example, that the SS-11 ICBM site at Svobodny in Siberia was capable of inflicting one million instant deaths and 750,000 radiation deaths on Sydney. And you would not have wanted to live in Alice Sp…
The Coming Catastrophe
By virtually every measure, the war in Afghanistan is getting much worse for both the western coalition and for the Afghan civilian population. The strategic benefits are minimal to non-existent, the risks of a widening war alarming, and the moral and humanitarian consequences appalling. Strategic confusion, institutional inertia and self-interest provide most of the answer as to why the US remains in Afghanistan. Australia's commitment shares th…
East Timor
Richard Tanter, director of the Nautilus Institute Australia, writes that while the violence of the attempted coup in East Timor is shocking, it should not be a surprise. East Timor has been moving into multi-dimensional crisis for several years. He points out that the present crises in East Timor have at last three axes that have led to today's events: rule by the gun; increasing and apparently intractable impoverishment and corruption; and deep…
Covert Expansion of the US-Japan Security Treaty
For many years Umebayashi Hiromichi from Peace Depot in Yokohama has been prominent in both the use of the US Freedom of Information Act as a research tool and the analysis of United States and Japanese missile defence policy and operations in East Asia. In 2006 Umebayashi published a major study of US naval operations testing capacity to detect and track North Korean missile launches in the Sea of Japan. That research was based on a careful scru…
The Re-emergence of an Australian Nuclear Weapons Option? Implications for Indonesia and the Asia Pacific
The question of whether or not Australia should acquire or develop nuclear weapons has been off the policy agenda for many years. From the 1950s onward the Democratic Labor Party argued the case publicly, though to no great policy effect. Yet, as a number of detailed studies by historians and comparative analysts of nuclear proliferation pathways have clearly established, successive Liberal-Country party coalition governments in the 1950s to the …
The End of Alliance "Business as Usual"? Ozawa's Rejection of Japan's Indian Ocean Deployment
The defeat of the ruling Liberal Democratic party-led coalition by the Democratic Party of Japan in Japan's Upper House elections on July 29 has already sent shock waves through the US-Japan security alliance. Surprising many who saw only his bullying style and right wing policies, DPJ leader Ozawa Ichiro moved quickly to set the DPJ on a course deeply antagonistic to US hopes for Japan as a global military partner
Australia's Expansive Asian Security Footprint
How we defend our sovereignty, our citizens and our interests - and our success in doing so - shapes the future of our nation."The opening words of Brendan Nelson's Preface to the 2007 Defence Update are the most accurate of all those in this seriously flawed document - though quite likely not as Nelson had in mind when he wrote them. The Defence Update 2007 comes after a decade of constant and still unfinished increases in defence spending, a tr…
The New American-led Security Architecture in the Asia Pacific
When Prime Ministers Abe Shinzo and John Howard signed Japan's first comprehensive security agreement in half a century, and its only one apart from the treaty with the United States, the two countries raised five crucial foreign policy signals, and fundamentally securitised the relationship between the two countries
Bitter flowers, sweet flowers
Beyond the Nuclear Umbrella
This paper provides an overview of the Nautilus Institute's exploration of two inter‐linked but highly contested aspects of the strategic nuclear situation on the Korean peninsula: the complexity and uncertainty associated with US assurances of nuclear extended deterrence to South Korea (and Japan), and the potential contribution of a nuclear‐weapon‐free zone to shifting the current impasse concerning North Korean nuclear weapons. The theoretical…
Just in Case”
This paper examines the foundations and rationale for Australian reliance on US assurances of extended nuclear deterrence. The Australian model of extended nuclear deterrence is marked by its lack of public presence, a lack of certainty about its standing and character in US eyes, its lack of a direct nuclear threat, and its resurgence at a time when nuclear abolition possibilities are being embraced by the leader of the deterrence provider. Aust…
Ten Questions about East Timor for which we need Answers
Determining the social, political and economic basis of the outbreak of violence in Timor during early 2006 leads to questions about the nature and form of that conflict itself and its implications for Australian security policy. Until questions about the nature of recent political dynamics in East Timor and the intersection of patronage politics, foreign linkages and the possible manipulation of regional identity are determined, we cannot be sur…
Indonesia
Richard Robison, Indonesia: The Rise of Capital, ASAA Series, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1986. xxv, 425 pp. Preface, tables, abbreviations, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper: A$ 14.95
Breaking the Nuclear Faith
The Militarization of Asean
Breaking the Nuclear Faith
Trends in Asia
Indonesia
Richard Robison, Indonesia: The Rise of Capital, ASAA Series, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1986. xxv, 425 pp. Preface, tables, abbreviations, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper: A$ 14.95
East Timor faces the future
The long struggle for East Timorese independence, the 500-year funu, has been won. The last battle is not yet over, and the painful residues of colonialism and war will scar East Timorese society and culture for many years to come, but for the people of East Timor, the taste of freedom is in the air. By way of conclusion, it may be worthwhile to survey the most important obstacles likely to face East Timor in its trajectory from Indonesian colony…
East Timor, Indonesia, and the world community
Why has the Bulletin chosen to publish a special issue on East Timor? There are, in fact, many good reasons for doing so
Chronology
East Timor and the crisis of the Indonesian intelligence state
This article begins by asking how it was that Indonesia was able to sustain its illegal invasion of East Timor for almost a quarter of a century; and how Suharto was able to rule Indonesia for more than three decades without domestic legitimacy and relying on massive state violence toward the Indonesian citizenry. The argument concentrates on the political-economic characteristics of the Indonesian rentier-militarist state, which alone made Suhar…
Bitter flowers, sweet flowers
The East Timor Question
South Korea's Power Play at the Six-Party Talks
The participants at the six-party talks should consider the full scope of activities needed to implement the South Korean scheme; that they should explore an alternative approach that would link the Russian and South Korean grids, thereby achieving the same outcome at lower cost and lesser political risk; and that the six parties should consider adopting a short-term, alternative package rather than resuming HFO deliveries to the DPRK because thi…
Voice and Silence in the First Nuclear War
Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me. Still does. My first reaction was personal relief that the bomb had ended the war. Frankly, I never thought I would live to see that end, the casualty rate among war correspondents in that area being what it was. My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later. Once I got to Hiroshima, my feeling was that for the first time a weapon of mass destruction…
Does Japan Have a National Strategy
From the centre of empire, the map of the rest of the world is largely blank, assumed either to be "just like us" and hence boring, or alternatively "not like us" and hence of marginal interest. Either way, the rest of the world is of little concern to those at the centre, at least until ugly blotches of "trouble spots" crack the surface glaze of imperial narcissism
Japanese Militarization and the Bush Doctrine
Japan is proceeding towards full security normalization, moving closer to throwing off all the externally and self-imposed restraints which for half a century produced a disjuncture between its economic status as the world's second largest national economy and its restricted status in the security realm. In the existing world system, normalization of this kind necessarily means militarization, and that is precisely what Japan has undertaken, a pr…
Masters of Terror
The terror campaign by pro-Indonesian armed groups before, during, and after East Timor's independence referendum in 1999 was a blatant challenge to the international community as many of the acts of murder, political intimidation, destruction, and mass deportation took place before the eyes of the world. Yet still the ultimate responsibility has been denied and obscured. Masters of Terror provides an authoritative analysis and documentation of t…
Ten Questions about East Timor for which we need Answers
Determining the social, political and economic basis of the outbreak of violence in Timor during early 2006 leads to questions about the nature and form of that conflict itself and its implications for Australian security policy. Until questions about the nature of recent political dynamics in East Timor and the intersection of patronage politics, foreign linkages and the possible manipulation of regional identity are determined, we cannot be sur…
Japan's Indian Ocean Naval Deployment
By most standards, Japan is now the world's number two naval power. This article, and the accompanying Asahi Shimbun series on Japan's four year Maritime Self Defense Force deployment to the Indian Ocean, reveals how far Japan's military reach now extends within the framework of US-Japan alliance. See the five-part Asahi Shinbun report, Japans New Blue Water Navy: A Four-Year Indian Ocean Mission Recasts the Constitution and the US- Japan Allianc…
Covert Expansion of the US-Japan Security Treaty
For many years Umebayashi Hiromichi from Peace Depot in Yokohama has been prominent in both the use of the US Freedom of Information Act as a research tool and the analysis of United States and Japanese missile defence policy and operations in East Asia. In 2006 Umebayashi published a major study of US naval operations testing capacity to detect and track North Korean missile launches in the Sea of Japan. That research was based on a careful scru…
The Re-emergence of an Australian Nuclear Weapons Option? Implications for Indonesia and the Asia Pacific
The question of whether or not Australia should acquire or develop nuclear weapons has been off the policy agenda for many years. From the 1950s onward the Democratic Labor Party argued the case publicly, though to no great policy effect. Yet, as a number of detailed studies by historians and comparative analysts of nuclear proliferation pathways have clearly established, successive Liberal-Country party coalition governments in the 1950s to the …
The End of Alliance "Business as Usual"? Ozawa's Rejection of Japan's Indian Ocean Deployment
The defeat of the ruling Liberal Democratic party-led coalition by the Democratic Party of Japan in Japan's Upper House elections on July 29 has already sent shock waves through the US-Japan security alliance. Surprising many who saw only his bullying style and right wing policies, DPJ leader Ozawa Ichiro moved quickly to set the DPJ on a course deeply antagonistic to US hopes for Japan as a global military partner
Australia's Expansive Asian Security Footprint
How we defend our sovereignty, our citizens and our interests - and our success in doing so - shapes the future of our nation."The opening words of Brendan Nelson's Preface to the 2007 Defence Update are the most accurate of all those in this seriously flawed document - though quite likely not as Nelson had in mind when he wrote them. The Defence Update 2007 comes after a decade of constant and still unfinished increases in defence spending, a tr…
The New American-led Security Architecture in the Asia Pacific
When Prime Ministers Abe Shinzo and John Howard signed Japan's first comprehensive security agreement in half a century, and its only one apart from the treaty with the United States, the two countries raised five crucial foreign policy signals, and fundamentally securitised the relationship between the two countries
The Coming Catastrophe
By virtually every measure, the war in Afghanistan is getting much worse for both the western coalition and for the Afghan civilian population. The strategic benefits are minimal to non-existent, the risks of a widening war alarming, and the moral and humanitarian consequences appalling. Strategic confusion, institutional inertia and self-interest provide most of the answer as to why the US remains in Afghanistan. Australia's commitment shares th…
East Timor
Richard Tanter, director of the Nautilus Institute Australia, writes that while the violence of the attempted coup in East Timor is shocking, it should not be a surprise. East Timor has been moving into multi-dimensional crisis for several years. He points out that the present crises in East Timor have at last three axes that have led to today's events: rule by the gun; increasing and apparently intractable impoverishment and corruption; and deep…
Nuclear Power, Risk Management and Democratic Accountability in Indonesia
In late 2009 Indonesia revived a proposal to build a nuclear power facility on the seismically active Muria Peninsula of north central Java over sustained civil society opposition including the voice of moderate Islam. The following assessment by Richard Tanter, Arabella Imhoff and David Von Hippel poses a range of issues about siting decisions in light of state-society relations and nuclear power feasibility. The issues are as relevant to mature…
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