{"id":9034,"date":"2022-03-29T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=9034"},"modified":"2023-08-06T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T10:00:17","slug":"can-states-have-strategic-personalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/can-states-have-strategic-personalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Can states have strategic personalities?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/ian-hall\/\">IAN HALL<\/a> AND REN\u00c9E JEFFERY    |  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>The Interpreter<\/em>&nbsp;last month, Bec Strating and Joanne Wallis&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/joining-barty-party-foreign-and-defence-policy\">weighed into the debate<\/a>&nbsp;about Australia\u2019s \u201cstrategic personality\u201d&nbsp;and how it should change to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eastasiaforum.org\/2019\/05\/17\/focussing-on-foreign-policy-for-the-sake-of-australias-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">respond more effectively<\/a>&nbsp;to the security challenges the country now faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Canberra\u2019s policymakers wanted a personality to emulate, Strating and Wallis argued, they might look to the just retired tennis star, Ashleigh Barty. Prodigiously talented, versatile, and appreciative that individual success on the court depends on the hard work of a big team on the sidelines, Barty is an excellent role model. And as a Ngaragu woman, she also reminds Australians of the need \u201cmeaningfully\u201d to engage with First Nations at home and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is much to be said for this argument. But we want to pick up on something else in Strating and Wallis\u2019 piece: their scepticism about the concept of \u201cstrategic personality\u201d and its usefulness. As it so happens, we have been conducting a review of what others in the region think about Australia\u2019s strategic personality. And while the full results are not yet in, we have been trying to refine the concept and work on ways to analyse the personalities of states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please click here to read the full &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/can-states-have-strategic-personalities\">Can states have strategic personalities?<\/a>&#8221; article published at The Interpreter, written by Griffith Asia Institute members, Professor Ian Hall and Professor Ren\u00e9e Jeffery.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article is a product of a Griffith Asia Institute project on Assessing Australia\u2019s Strategic Personality funded by the Department of Defence.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAN HALL AND REN\u00c9E JEFFERY | In&nbsp;The Interpreter&nbsp;last month, Bec Strating and Joanne Wallis&nbsp;weighed into the debate&nbsp;about Australia\u2019s \u201cstrategic personality\u201d&nbsp;and how it should change to&nbsp;respond more effectively&nbsp;to the security challenges the country now faces. If Canberra\u2019s policymakers wanted a personality to emulate, Strating and Wallis argued, they might look to the just retired tennis star, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":9036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[1293],"class_list":["post-9034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-diplomacy","tag-ian-hall"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Jill Moriarty","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Can states have strategic personalities? | Griffith Asia Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"IAN HALL AND REN\u00c9E JEFFERY | In&nbsp;The Interpreter&nbsp;last month, Bec Strating and Joanne Wallis&nbsp;weighed into the debate&nbsp;about Australia\u2019s\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/can-states-have-strategic-personalities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can states have strategic personalities? 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