Bilateral Relations Case Study

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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
I.1 Background of the Study
Building a bilateral relation with another state always becomes very needed and important to a state to enhance its foreign relations. It also applies to Indonesia as one of the most populous countries in the world with the third largest democracy in the world. As one of the example, the bilateral relation between Indonesia and Australia. Indonesia has been shared a strong bilateral relation with Australia since a very long time ago. Indonesia and Australia have a relationship that is interesting to be reviewed, because they have a lot of differences instead of they have known as neighbor countries. These differences could be in the sector of politics, religions, culture, history, and many …show more content…

As both countries have been neighbors and undergo a bilateral relation for a long time, they become strategic partners and become important for each other, and also they would like to enhance their ties on the sector of politics, economic, development, security, education, the connection of people-to-people, and other …show more content…

These phenomena can be seen as the shifting trends in the international politics, and we also cannot deny the important roles of non-state actors in doing diplomacy in the international politics. Sub-nation or regional governments – including provinces, districts, and cities – can also be included as non-state actors, where they can transform diplomatic activities and doing a policy decision making process. The sub-nation governments also play important roles in international relations, which they perform really active in some different ways including doing trade and cultural missions abroad, signing agreements and treaties with other non-state actors and foreign states, participating in international networks of the regional cooperation and more (Kuznetsov, 2015, p. 3). These phenomena of sub-nation or regional governments as non-state actors can be called as Paradiplomacy. As mentioned by Rodrigo Tavares, cities and states are the new international actors and the sub-nation entities can be seen as a space where the capital, people, goods, services, and information crisscross and solidify (Tavares, 2016, p. 3). Tavares also stated that nowadays some mayors and governors have exercising economic and political power at their level to fill the vacuum of effective

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