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Contemporary understandings and policy significance of the Indo-Pacific concept
The Indo-Pacific Research Forum is a two-year project spanning 2019-2020, established by the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) in partnership with the Japan Foundation, the Australian Civil-Military Centre, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Australia-Japan Foundation.
The project attempts to define and clarify contemporary understandings and policy significance to the Indo-Pacific concept. The project is held as a series of panel discussions featuring officials and scholars, aiming to explore foreign policy perspectives of key players in the region. The focus of the program lies heavily on regional participants that have lent much to the development of the Indo-Pacific as a framework.
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The AIIA was formed in 1924 as a branch of Chatham House. It was then established as a federal body in 1933 and is the only nation-wide organisation of its kind in Australia. The AIIA plays a unique role as an independent non-partisan forum for informed debate on Australia’s engagement in the world, achieved through track-II dialogues, public events, publications, and analysis.
Background
The Indo-Pacific, a concept that has attracted growing interest in foreign policy circles, has gained particular traction in recent years. It is usually explained in terms of a US-led strategy to counter China’s growing rise in the region. The Indo-Pacific concept, however, is hardly new, nor is it the exclusive preserve of the US foreign policy circles. Accounting for the approaches of different regional players in the Indo-Pacific, this forum seeks to answer what the ‘Indo-Pacific’ means and what countries ‘do’ with it.
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Tuesday 4 February 2020
Australian Embassy in Japan
2-1-14 Mita, Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-8361
Indo-Pacific Research Forum 2020 Working Paper
By Dr Rebecca Strating, Executive Director of La Trobe Asia.
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