TY - BOOK AU - TOW William T TI - Asia's competitive "strategic geometries": the Australian perspective PY - 2008/// KW - ASIA PACIFIC KW - REGIONAL SECURITY KW - MULTILATERALISM N2 - Recent changes of government in Australia and Japan may enable each country to further develop relations such as the 2007 Japan Australia Joint Security Declaration, and augment their political and security positions in relation to China. These moves may in turn force the USA to reconsider its own position, but the danger remains that competing multilateral power groupings continue to evolve with destabilising potential ER -