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This report analyzes Australia's regional security strategy. With both US power and Western influence in relative decline, Australia will likely be looking for new strategic options to buttress its current policies in this emerging era. The US alliance will remain important, but it is likely that Australia will also want to nurture new relationships with regional countries as the "Asian century" unfolds. The authors suggests that Australia will have to worry about two strategic problems over the next ten to twenty years: the shifting great-power relationships in Asia, and the growing capacity of non-state actors to pose strategic-level threats to states.