Kerja Sama Force Posture Antara Australia dan Amerika Serikat sebagai Perwujudan Politik Luar Negeri Australia di Bidang Keamanan

Sevelyn Merlyna Wardani, Atin Prabandari

2017 | Skripsi | Ilmu Hubungan Internasional

ABSTRACT Security is a crucial part of Australian foreign policy. Australia’s milieu as an Anglo-Saxon country in the south of Asia and foreign policy which is often seen as Western-oriented affected her security strategies. In 2011, Australia announced cooperation with United States of America which was later officially signed in 2014 as Force Posture Agreement. This cooperation resulted in numerous domestic and transborder consequences in Australia’s economic, social, and political context. Based on this event, this research will focus to analyze Australia’s rationale to choose military cooperation with the United States of America through Force Posture Agreement as its security strategy in spite of the cooperation’s apparent consequences and challenges. Using neorealism and middle power as its analytical knife, this research explains Australia’s strategic considerations on national security and interest in a region struggling with the dynamics of China’s rising aggressivity. China, as a rising great power, influences interaction in international system and contributes to the region’s instability. Thus, this research argues that Australia is facing an escalating urgency for a security strategy that could be implemented with specific, measurable, and attainable outcome. A guaranteed advantage in securing national security and international system’s stability, along with a controllable cooperation, makes Force Posture Agreement to be the rational security strategy for Australia to implement, despite conspicuous consequences and challenges provided. Keyword: Force Posture Agreement, military cooperation, middle power, Australia

Kata Kunci : Politik Luar Negeri - Australia; Keamanan