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For half a century the security framework of Asia has been built not on a multilateral institution but on a series of bilateral alliances between the US and Japan, the US an the Republic of Korea, the US and the Philippines, and the US and Australia and New Zealand. The bilateral alliance structure in the post-World War II Asia-Pacific during the cold war was defined as having the US as the hub and the allies as spokes, the so-called ‘hub-and-spoke’ architecture. This basic framework of Asian security has not changed even after the end of the cold war.
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Gareth Evans, ‘Australia is catching up with its geography’, speech to launch the Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies, Monash University, 19 July 1990.
Gareth Evans, ‘What Asia needs is a Europe-style CSCA’, The International Herald Tribune, 27 July 1990.
Paul Evans, ‘The Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: Context and Prospects’, CANCAPS Paper No. 2, March 1997.
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Fukushima, A. (2003). The ASEAN Regional Forum. In: Wesley, M. (eds) The Regional Organizations of the Asia-Pacific. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403944023_5
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