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Understanding Australia's neighbours : an introduction to East and Southeast Asia
\"The East and Southeast Asian region is of immense economic, strategic and cultural significance to Australia. It has also been important in defining Australia's national identity, and is the origin of many of Australia's immigrants. Australians, therefore, need to have a good understanding of their northern neighbours and to think about the region ... This is a book for all Australians who seek a well-informed view of the country's neighbours in East and Southeast Asia\"--P. [4] of cover.
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Australia's Defence Strategy
How would we know a good defence strategy if we saw one? The Asian Century is challenging many of the traditional assumptions at the heart of Australian defence policy and strategy. Defence scholars have risen to the challenge of these transformational times and have collectively produced a smorgasbord of alternatives for policy-makers. The problem is that these recommendations all point in very different directions. How should we evaluate these options? Adam Lockyer tackles this question and develops a novel conceptual framework for evaluating defence strategies. By doing so, this book breaks new theoretical ground and makes an important contribution to our understanding of strategy in general and defence strategy in particular. Lockyer then applies this analytical tool to the leading arguments in Australia's defence debate and finds that there is still substantial work to be done. Lockyer concludes by proposing a new Australian defence strategy for a contested Asia that would pass the test for a 'good' defence strategy. The result is essential reading for anyone interested in strategy or the future of Australian defence policy.
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The Australia-ASEAN dialogue : tracing 40 years of partnership
\"This book illustrates the extent of the Australia-ASEAN Dialogue Partnership since its inception in 1974. It examines the networks of engagement that have shaped relations across three areas: regionalism, non-traditional security, and economic engagement. An understanding of the nature of the Australia-ASEAN partnership is often overshadowed by occasional shocks that test the relationship, such as people smuggling or terrorism, but beneath the surface of these extremes are deep and steady currents of partnership and cooperation that have flowed over four decades. This volume does not seek to merely commemorate or celebrate 40 years of Australia-ASEAN Dialogue Partnership; it is intended to establish a more sophisticated and balanced understanding around which we can accurately identify the Australia-ASEAN dynamic - historically, culturally and theoretically. The volume not only maps where we have been but also where the Australia-ASEAN partnership might be headed as Southeast Asian economic dynamism and strategic influence expand\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Comrade ambassador : Whitlam's Beijing envoy
Modern Australia was in part defined by its early embrace of China--a turning from the White Australia Policy of the 1950s to the country's acceptance of Asian immigration and engagement with regional neighbours.It saw the far-sighted establishment of an embassy in Beijing in the 1970s by Gough Whitlam, headed by Stephen FitzGerald.
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Engaging the neighbours
From modest beginnings in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has become the premier regional institution in Southeast Asia. The 10 members are pursuing cooperation to develop the ‘ASEAN Community’ and also sponsor wider dialogues that involve the major powers. Australia has been interested in ASEAN since its inauguration and was the first country to establish a multilateral link with the Association, in 1974. Australia and ASEAN have subsequently engaged and cooperated on many issues of mutual concern, including efforts to secure an agreement to resolve the Cambodia conflict (signed in 1991), the initiation of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation grouping (1989) and the ASEAN Regional Forum (1994), the conclusion of the ASEAN–Australia–New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (signed in 2008) and the development of the East Asia Summit (from 2005). This book provides the first available detailed history of the evolution of Australia’s interactions with ASEAN. It assesses the origins and phases of development of Australia’s relations with ASEAN; the role ASEAN has played in Australian foreign policy since the 1970s; the ways in which the two sides have collaborated, and at times disagreed, in the pursuit of regional stability and security; and the key factors that will influence the relationship as it moves into its fifth decade.
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Bilateral perspectives on regional security : Australia, Japan and the Asia-Pacific region
\"This book assesses the key factors underlying such Australian-Japanese cooperation and those policy challenges that could impede it. Experts offer critical insights into why their two countries - traditionally the two key 'spokes' in the US bilateral alliance network spanning Asia - are moving toward a security relationship in their own right\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Australia Faces Southeast Asia
Australia as a Western society in the Orient faces a unique and
paradoxical challenge in her relations with her close but
unfamiliar neighbors of Southeast Asia. Explicitly dependent upon
British foreign policy until the fall of Singapore in 1942,
Australia has reluctantly and painfully begun the task of
developing a policy of her own.
The Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia and many of the Pacific
islands during the Second World War awakened Australia to the need
to secure her own defenses and later, when Britain began a gradual
withdrawal from Southeast Asia, Australia was thrown upon her own
resources in dealing with her politically unstable and volatile
neighbors and also with the larger Asian threat posed by Communist
China. In Australia Faces Southeast Asia , Amry and
MaryBelle Vandenbosch trace Australia's attempts to reconcile her
cultural heritage and her geography.
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