The Quad in 2024: A Combined Strategic Vision for the Indo-Pacific - By Lucas Myers

The Indo-Pacific in the World June 2024 The Quad in 2024: A Combined Strategic Vision for the Indo-Pacific By Lucas Myers Executive Summary: For an international minilateral grouping with clear buy-in at the highest levels in Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, the Quad remains malleable and amorphous. [...] In fact, the grouping has quietly rebranded away from “Quadrilateral Security With a holistic approach to security, the inclusion Dialogue” to the Quad in its public messaging of India, and public goods as an alternative to Chinese offerings in mind, the Quad is best The Quad in 2024 June 2024 3 . [...] Ambiguity also relieves some of the concerns raised by states in South The Quad’s maritime security efforts are perhaps Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Ocean the clearest example of the benefits of the regarding regional securitization, as well as grouping for the region. [...] China looms large as the elephant in the room, and its reaction prematurely ended the first The Quad’s Importance: The Role of Quad. [...] Importantly, the Quad re-emerged in the of other countries joining the Quad, the Quad context of seismic geopolitical shifts in the region, should remain limited in membership to the four specifically the revisionist challenge from China existing member states.