| ID | 144533 |
| Title Proper | Balance or to bandwagon? adjusting to China's rise during Australia's Rudd–Gillard era |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Bloomfield, Alan |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article examines Australian grand strategy in the context of China's rise during the period of Labor governments between 2007 and 2013. Australia's grand-strategic posture is treated as the dependent variable, plotted along a balancing-to-bandwagoning continuum. Australia remained within the hedging zone throughout, although there were discernible shifts in posture during the period. While momentum was building towards a more overt balancing posture during the Kevin Rudd era, the various balancing and bandwagoning ‘signals’ were more contradictory after Julia Gillard unseated Rudd 2010; in short, she stabilised Australia's grand-strategic posture, meaning it remains best characterized as ‘dominance denial’. |
| `In' analytical Note | Pacific Review Vol. 29, No.2; May 2016: p.259-282 |
| Journal Source | Pacific Review Vol: 29 No 2 |
| Key Words | Australia ; Grand Strategy ; China's Rise ; Balancing and Bandwagoning |