Political Science Report: U.S.-Australia Alliance in a Changing World

This report provides an analytical summary of the U.S.-Australia alliance, examining its strategic choices and empirical conditions within a changing global landscape. It discusses the challenges the United States faces in managing its political and military commitments, as well as the rise of a "restraint constituency." The report explores Australia's perspective, highlighting its sensitivity to U.S. challenges and its adjustments in defense and strategic policies. It analyzes the impact of the Obama and Trump administrations on the alliance, including the importance of strengthening relations in the face of rising powers like China. Furthermore, the summary reflects on the alliance's role in maintaining the rules-based order and addresses the ideational shifts that challenge the U.S.'s preeminence. The report references Michael Clarke's work, examining the alliance's future and the need for the U.S. to maintain an open global order to avoid chaos.

Running head: ANALYTICAL SUMMARY
Analytical summary

ANALYTICAL SUMMARY 1
The paper focuses on discussing both the U.S. primacy as both like a strategic choice and an
experimental condition. It needs to be understood that the United States has faced significant
challenges regarding the managing of the never-ceasing political and the military powers across
the country. Considering the future aspects of the United States, the paper reflects that the
primacy should focus on the ideational and the material variables. The ideational choices refer to
the policy approaches, while the material variables reflect the various relativities of power. The
elections held in the year 2016 gave rise to the restraint constituency between the significant
segments of the United States.
Moreover, it is found that Australia is considered as sensitive towards the challenges of the U.S.
which were posed by states like Russia and China, and it has further adjusted its concerned
defence and the strategic policies. There were few of the crucial challenges to the U.S. primacy
under the administration of Obama. These challenges were considered vital for the policymakers
to formulate the desired strategic options. The article also reflected the debate that took over the
significance of the impact on the rise of china on the national security of the country.
Considering the national security and the U.S.-Australia alliance, there were significant efforts in
strengthening the alliance with the United States (Clarke, 2017). Moreover, the joint venture will
give rise to strengthening the relations between these two countries, and it will further
complicate the strategic moves of china by making various threats.
On the other hand, the ideational sifts as well as the systematic changes effectively challenge the
core assumption considering the United States to remain the preeminent global military power as
well as it continues to remain engaged in different alliance relationships. The article also
reflected that the Turnbull government was careful regarding the stress which the alliance rests
not much on the features of the individuals of the concerned administration in Washington or
Canberra. Furthermore, the article highlighted that the issue such as the “genuflections” for the
alliance was that they refused in acknowledging that the U.S. was in the procedure of
fundamentally reorienting is own approach towards diverse relationships with the security of
Asia-Pacific. The outlook for the U.S.-Australian alliance reflects the fact that ANZUS
moderated the long-lasting worries with Australia’s security within the Asian region. Thus, the
policymakers of Australia by understanding the alliance included the considerations of the
Canberra’s involvement towards the preservation of the rules-based order which was established

ANALYTICAL SUMMARY 2
by the U.S. in the year 1945 (Clarke, 2017). There were many statements from Trump regarding
the foreign policy that have critically critiqued the two-party post-Cold war foreign policy
agreement within Washington. It needs to be understood that there is a requirement of a strong
United States for maintaining the open global order. It also needs to be analyzed that the
substitute to America’s indispensability is not found to be a melodious and self-regulating
stability of the independent states, but it is supposed to be the global landscapes marked by chaos
and destruction.

ANALYTICAL SUMMARY 3
Reference
Clarke, M., 2017. The US-Australia Alliance in an Era of Change: Living Complacently?. Asia
Policy, 23(1), pp.63-69.