Accession Number:

AD1096324

Title:

U.S.-Japan Alliance Conference: Regional Perspectives on the Quadrilateral Dialogue and the Free and Open Indo-Pacific

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Final Report]

Corporate Author:

RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA

Personal Author(s):

• Harold, Scott W
• Madan, Tanvi
• Sambhi, Natalie

Report Date:

2020-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

57

Abstract:

Since late 2017, the United States and Japan, together with Australia and India, have resumed meeting in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue Quad. The forum is designed to enable the four countriesprospectively with other future partners to join laterto explore opportunitiesfor security and defense dialogue and cooperation. Around the same time, Japans vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific FOIP regional order was embraced by the Trump administration, which began articulating a FOIP strategy as the successor to the Obama administrationspivot or rebalance to the Asia-Pacific.

Descriptors:

• national security
• geography
• international law
• warfare
• department of defense
• climate change
• department of state
• governments
• national politics
• military force levels
• south asia
• topography
• unified combatant commands
• united states
• agreements
• navies (foreign)
• pacific ocean
• public policy
• warning systems
• defense systems

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science
• Military Forces and Organizations
• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]