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Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Newsletters Donate My Account. Research Topics. Global Image. Pakistan, Iran, Israel and Somalia While China and the United States are seen as the top threats for most countries surveyed, there are a few regional threats that are of particular concern to specific publics. Share this link:. Laura Silver is a senior researcher focusing on global research at Pew Research Center.
Around the world, more see the U. Before Soleimani's death, concerns about Iran had fallen in many countries — including the U.
People in Asia-Pacific regard the U. Similarly, what makes Ukraine different from a country like Poland or Estonia is that while it has long received American support, the U.
The core feature of U. Similarly, the Nixon administration urged Asian allies to play a larger role in their own defense as early as the late s. Allied defense budgets have waxed and waned—as have U.
In the past decade, however, renewed concerns about Chinese and Russia aggression—as well as calls from both the Obama and Trump administrations for greater allied defense spending—have led many U.
In Asia, Australia , Japan , and South Korea have all announced plans for significant new defense investments, much of which includes purchases of U. Only four non-U. NATO members also recently agreed to a new cost-sharing formula that will result in Germany and the U.
The largest concentration of U. Allies contribute to the cost of U. South Korea and Japan have also shouldered significant portions of the spending for some of the largest U. While the formal defense requirements of U. Canberra must increase its investment in diplomacy as well as defense—and in new relationships as well as old ones.
For Australia, the Anglosphere is necessary but not sufficient. The pact has infuriated France, which has lost a prized contract to build conventionally powered submarines for Australia and recalled its ambassadors to the U.
The French contract was a troubled one, but the Australian government ought to have shown more grace in the manner of its withdrawal from it. Washington and Canberra should move to assuage the anger felt in Paris. France is an important Indo-Pacific power in its own right, and a key advocate of European involvement in the region. Read: Europe should drop the act on Afghanistan. AUKUS is a head-snapping development.
The sharing of nuclear secrets between sovereign nations is as intimate as international relations gets. It may not be replicated with other U. But Australia is far from the only Asian power looking to do more with Washington. At the White House this week, Biden will host the first in-person leaders summit of the Quad countries: the U.
Shields of the Republic begins by assessing the two main critiques of alliances that have emerged from political science research. The first is that alliances entangle the United States in foreign wars. The logic here is simple: Once you extend a security guarantee, the ally feels emboldened, knowing that America has its back.
If the ally becomes embroiled in a war—even a war of its own making—the United States might feel compelled to intervene lest the credibility of other alliance commitments be called into question.
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