Military Bloc Policy of the Western Powers in the Asia-Pacific Region

Occupation: Post-graduate Student, School of International Relations
Affiliation: St. Petersburg State University
Address: Russian Federation, St. Petersburg

Journal name

Asia and Africa Today

Edition

Issue 9

Pages

69-77

Abstract

The need to assess the retrospective of the development of the multilateral alliance of Western powers in the Asia-Pacific region is due to the modern dynamics of the transforming “classic” model of military cooperation in order to determine the need to create a new military and political alliance – AUKUS. As well as to identify specific problems in the functioning of specific alliances, followed by an assessment of the factors of their influence on the alignment forces in the region, in the emerging system of the “new” balance of power between the US and China.

The emergence of a new military and political alliance AUKUS is determined by the evolutionary need to develop a system of military and political alliance in the Asia-Pacific region, dictated by the need of Western powers (primarily the United States) to build a more effective system of alliances designed to provide a “real value” in the policy of balancing Western democracies in response to modern challenges within the APR.

Keywords

USA, UK, China, military alliances, international security, balance of power

Received

01.06.2023

Publication date

25.09.2023

Number of characters

26488

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GOST	Cherneva T. Military Bloc Policy of the Western Powers in the Asia-Pacific Region // Asia and Africa Today – 2023. – Issue 9 C. 69-77 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://asaf-today.ru/S032150750027595-6-1 (circulation date: 20.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S032150750027595-6
MLA	Cherneva, Tatyana S. "Military Bloc Policy of the Western Powers in the Asia-Pacific Region." Asia and Africa Today 9 (2023):69-77. DOI: 10.31857/S032150750027595-6
APA	Cherneva T. (2023). Military Bloc Policy of the Western Powers in the Asia-Pacific Region. Asia and Africa Today (9), pp.69-77 DOI: 10.31857/S032150750027595-6

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