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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'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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The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and Australia–Japan Relations
Relations between Australia and Japan have undergone both testing and celebrated times since 1952, when Australia's ambassadorial representation in Tokyo commenced. Over the years, interactions have deepened beyond mutual trade objectives to encompass economic, defence and strategic interests within the Indo-Pacific region and beyond. This 'special relationship’ has been characterised by the high volume of people moving between Australia and Japan for education, tourism, business, science and research. Cultural ties, from artists-in-residence to sister-city agreements, have flourished. Australia has supported Japan in times of need, including the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. This book shows how the Australian embassy in Tokyo, through its programs and people, has been central to these developments. The embassy’s buildings, its gardens and grounds, and, above all, its occupants—from senior Australian diplomats to locally engaged staff—are the focus of this multidimensional study by former diplomats and expert observers of Australia’s engagement with Japan. Drawing on oral histories, memoirs, and archives, this volume sheds new light on the complexity of Australia’s diplomatic work in Japan, and the role of the embassy in driving high-level negotiations as well as fostering soft‑power influences. ‘With a similar vision for the Indo-Pacific region and a like-minded approach to the challenges facing us, Australia and Japan have become more intimate and more strategic as partners. I am very pleased to see this slice of Australian diplomatic history so well accounted for in this book.’ — Jan Adams AO PSM, Secretary, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Australia’s Ambassador to Japan, November 2020–June 2022
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Engaging China
As the strategic rivalry between the United States and China
rapidly deepens, growing distrust and fears of China are once again
shaping Australian media coverage and public discourse, with potent
implications for Australia's China policy.
At this crucial historical moment, Engaging China
offers a full-throated defence of engagement. This volume brings
together a diverse set of Australia's seasoned diplomats,
experienced journalists and renowned scholars to assess the current
state of Australia-China relations and offer pragmatic advice for
how Australia can restore a healthy and stable relationship with
China.
Over the past five decades, Australia's engagement of China has
facilitated a deepening economic relationship alongside expanded
cultural, educational and people-to-people exchanges, fostering
greater understanding between the two countries and
populations.
The contributors to this volume share a common vision: Australia
and Australians should continue to engage with China and Chinese
people for mutual benefit. The chapters take stock of past
achievements, identify recent challenges and offer practical
suggestions for how the Australian government and Australian firms,
institutions and individuals can proactively, productively and
securely engage with China.
Australia's rich and diverse relations with China extend far
beyond the political and economic interactions that tend to
dominate news headlines. In explaining how and why an engagement
strategy continues to serve Australian interests, Engaging
China offers a timely alternative to the prevailing public and
policy discourses on Australia's most challenging bilateral
relationship.
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Insurgent Intellectual
With a distinguished career spanning more than four decades, Professor Desmond Ball is one of the world's greatest scholars of strategy and defence, Australia's home-grown giant. In this collection of essays, leading political, media and academic figures, including former United States President Jimmy Carter, pay tribute to his remarkable contributions. From a base at the Australian National University in Canberra, Professor Ball has unflinchingly researched topics from Cold War nuclear strategy and the defence of Australia to spy scandals and Southeast Asian paramilitaries. His roaming intellect, appetite for getting the facts and commitment to publishing on sensitive topics ensure he is a towering figure who has provided impeccable service to Strategic Studies, the Asia-Pacific region and the Australian community.
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Our Common Challenges
The Singapore Lecture is designed to provide the opportunity for distinguished statesmen, scholars, and writers and other similarly highly qualified individuals specializing in banking and commerce, international economics and finance and philosophical and world strategic affairs to visit Singapore. The presence of such eminent personalities will allow Singaporeans, especially the younger executive and decision-makers in both the public and private sectors, to have the benefit of exposure to – through the Lecture, televised discussions, and private consultations – leaders of thought and knowledge in various fields, thereby enabling them to widen their experience and perspectives. On 29 June 2015, the 35th Singapore Lecture was delivered by The Honourable Tony Abbott MP, Prime Minister of Australia under the distinguished Chairmanship of Mr Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs, Singapore.
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Relational Indigenous systems: Aboriginal Australian political ordering and reconfiguring IR
Ontological parochialism persists in International Relations (IR) scholarship among gestures towards relational ontological reinvention. Meanwhile, the inter-polity relations of many Indigenous peoples pre-date contemporary IR and tend to be substantively relational. This situation invites rethinking of IR's understandings of political order and inter-polity relations. We take up this task by laying out necessary methodological innovations to engage with Aboriginal Australia and then showing how conventional and much recent heterodox IR seek to create forms of ‘escape’ from lived political relations by asserting the powerful yet problematic social science mechanism of observer's distance. This demonstrates a need to take Aboriginal Australia as a system on its own terms to speak back to IR. We next explain how Aboriginal Australian people produce political order on the Australian continent through a ‘relational-ecological’ disposition that contrasts with IR's predominant ‘survivalist’ disposition. The accompanying capacity to manage survivalism through relationalism provides an avenue for engaging with and recasting some of mainstream IR's survivalist assumptions, including by considering an Aboriginal approach to multipolarity, without attempting ‘pure escape’ through alternative ontologies. We thus argue that while it is necessary to critique and recast dominant IR, doing so requires putting dominant IR and Indigenous understandings into relational exchange.
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