Quadrilateral Security Dialogue in the Asia Pacific Region and its adaptation to maritime security issues in the Arctic Region; Part IV
International LawLJ HowardBy LJ Howard, 30 September, 2021
RAUSI Research Brief Volume 2, Issue 5
Recent developments in the Australia-India-Japan-US Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, ‘the Quad’ included the Quad’s stated focus, articulated by its member states, viz., Australia, India, Japan and the United States, as being primarily supporting freedom of navigation in the Indo-Sino Pacific region through diplomatic representation and dialogue. These developments have been analyzed in previous research within RAUSI Dispatches, with the view to informing the issue on ‘how such a model of multilateral diplomacy might advance Canadian security interests in the Artic region.
Diagnostic analysis of that specific issue is fascinating, and it appears that predictive analysis of multilateral diplomacy itself as an instrument of state practice is equally so. This note informs the latter and in so doing, informs the former.