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The article discusses the impact of the policy of pre-emptive self-defense of Australia on its relations with its neighboring countries. It argues that the alliance between the U.S. and Australia has the potential to destabilize the relations of the latter with its Southeast Asian neighbors. It tackles the shift from multilateralism to alliance with the U.S. by the government of prime minister John Winston Howard in 1996. It cites that the alliance provides the U.S. with enhance military stability in the Asia Pacific region.