The ANU-MacArthur Asia Security Initiative (ANU-MASI) Partnership
‘Policy Alternatives for Integrating Bilateral and Multilateral Regional Security Approaches in the Asia Pacific’
Background
In May 2009, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
launched the Asia Security Initiative (ASI) – a
world-wide network of 27 policy research institutions which, over the next three years and with the MacArthur Foundation’s
support, will develop new ideas for overcoming the security challenges faced by Asia-Pacific nations.
The ANU became one of the Asia Security Initiative's partner
institutions in mid-December 2008, when Professors William Tow and John Ravenhill of the Department of International Relations (Research School of Pacific
and Asian Studies, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific) won a US$600,000 grant from the ASI. The grant will underwrite an ANU-MacArthur
Asia Security Initiative (ANU-MASI) Partnership project for the next three years.
Read the media release on the ANU News website »
The Project
The ANU-MacArthur Asia Security Initiative (ANU-MASI) Partnership project is entitled “Policy Alternatives for
Integrating Bilateral and Multilateral Regional Security Approaches in the Asia Pacific”. It will commence in mid-2009
and end in April 2012.
The project focuses on how traditional security ties between the US, its treaty partners and other states in the Asia-Pacific
fit into that region's growing and increasingly crucial multilateral security politics. The project aims primarily to study
how existing US alliances can interact effectively with emerging regional security coalitions to coordinate joint multilateral security
initiatives. The project will also reassess US regional interests, institutional priorities, and diplomacy from a regional perspective,
complementing an American assessment within the overall Asia Security Initiative framework.
The ANU-MASI project is particularly timely given Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's reinvigoration of his proposal for an
Asia-Pacific
Community (APC) that envisions consolidating regional security agendas.
The project will have four main focus areas of research, namely:
- Processes for achieving a bilateral-multilateral security nexus in the Asia Pacific;
- Alliance/coalition initiatives on ‘broader security’ challenges;
- The intersection of economics and security; and
- Arms control and nuclear non-proliferation.
Download a description the project's research methodology » (PDF
1.07MB)
The Team
The four research focus areas (referred to as Focus Groups) will be headed, respectively, by:
- Dr Brendan
Taylor of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU;
- Professor William Tow of the
Department of International Relations, ANU;
- Professor
John Ravenhill of the Department of International Relations, ANU; and
- Dr Robert Ayson of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU.
Download a list of the group members for each research focus area » (PDF 78KB)
Support for the Project
The ANU-MASI Partnership project receives support from The Australian National University and the MacArthur Foundation's
ASI, as well as the ARC
Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) and the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU).
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News
ANU-MacArthur ASI project organisational meeting held in Tokyo
Posted 23 October 2009
The ANU’s MacArthur ASI project convened its project organisational meeting in Tokyo on Friday, 25 September 2009 at the
University of Tokyo. Professor Kiichi Fujiwara, also a MacArthur grantee, graciously hosted the group led by Professors William
Tow and John Ravenhill at the Hongo campus. The project organisational meeting brought together the four focus group leaders, including
Professor Rikki Kersten and Dr Brendan Taylor (representing Dr Robert Ayson) to plan out the three-year project and to delineate
the scopes of the four focus groups.
Representatives from other MacArthur grantee institutions who are also members of the various
focus groups, namely Associate Professor Ajin Choi of Yonsei University, Associate Professor Ralf Emmers of S.Rajaratnam School
of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University, also participated in order to explore possible opportunities
for collaboration and to facilitate each other’s agenda more effectively
and efficiently. Other attendees were Associate Professor Ken Jimbo of Keio University, Assistant Professor Ryo Sahashi
of the University of Tokyo, and administrative staff from The Australian National University.
L-R upper row: Ajin Choi, Ken Jimbo, Ryo Sahashi, William Tow, Brendan Taylor.
L-R lower row: Rikki Kersten, Kiichi Fujiwara, Ralf Emmers and John Ravenhill.
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meeting »
Professor Douglas Webber of INSEAD presents at Asian Security Seminar
Posted 23 October 2009
Professor Douglas Webber, Professor of Political Science at INSEAD and International Visiting Fellow at Monash European
and EU Centre visited the ANU and presented the paper entitled: “Soft-core East Asia: Differentiated Cooperation in an Amorphous Region” at
the Asian Security Seminar held on 23 October 2009.
This event is part of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and the Department
of International Relations seminar series. It was carried out with the support of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security
(CEPS) and the MacArthur Foundation.
Read more about this event »
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to a podcast of this seminar » (30.27 MB 01:15:32)
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