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13 results in Australia in World Affairs

Australia in World Affairs 2016–2020
  • A Return to Great-Power Rivalry
  • Volume 13
  • Edited by Baogang He, David Hundt, Danielle Chubb
  • Published online:
    25 October 2024
    Print publication:
    13 June 2024
  • Between 2016 and 2020 Australia's foreign and security policies were significantly impacted by profound changes in geopolitics and geoeconomics, particularly as great power competition re-emerged between the United States and China. Australia in World Affairs 2016–2020: A Return to Great-Power Rivalry examines Australia's engagement on the international stage in light of these events. The thirteenth volume in the Australia in World Affairs series builds on the history of Australia's foreign policy covered in other volumes to identify patterns of continuity and change. It catalogues the key developments in this period of world history from an Australian perspective. Organised thematically, chapters cover Australia's foreign policy response to climate change, Australia's strengthened ties to the Indo–Pacific region, and its security interests in Southeast Asia. Australia's increasing security dependence on the US in an age of great-power rivalry is evident throughout.

Australia in World Affairs 1991–1995
  • Seeking Asian Engagement
  • Volume 8
  • Edited by Australian Institute of International Affairs, James Cotton, John Ravenhill
  • Published online:
    04 May 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The period covered by the eighth volume, Australia in World Affairs 1991–1995: Seeking Asian Engagement, saw a change in emphasis of Australia's foreign policies, particularly a push for closer relations with Asia. Australia's relations with the four newly industrialising countries of Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Singapore and Taiwan are introduced for the first time. This volume contains a mix of reflective, thematic and country studies, and covers topics such as Australia and the global economy, Australia and the environment and, for the first time, the relationship between Australia and New Zealand, along with traditional topics such as defence policies and relations with the United States.

Australia in World Affairs 1996–2000
  • The National Interest in a Global Era
  • Volume 9
  • Edited by Australian Institute of International Affairs, James Cotton, John Ravenhill
  • Published online:
    04 May 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The ninth volume, Australia in World Affairs 1996–2000: The National Interest in a Global Era, covers an active and eventful period in Australia's foreign relations. During the years 1996–2000, Australia was led by two Coalition governments under the prime ministership of John Howard, with Alexander Downer as Foreign Minister. The issues confronting the government, no less than the policies devised to deal with them, exhibited some significant contrasts with those of the first half of the decade. This volume deals both with major substantive issues in Australian foreign policy (human rights, defence, the environment, East Timor, the economy, the Asian economic crisis) and with important bilateral relationships (with Japan, China, the United States and Europe), and examines Australia's foreign policy relationships with Latin America and with South Asia.

Australia in World Affairs 2001–2005
  • Trading on Alliance Security
  • Volume 10
  • Edited by Australian Institute of International Affairs, James Cotton, John Ravenhill
  • Published online:
    04 May 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The tenth volume, Australia in World Affairs 2001–2005: Trading on Alliance Security, is defined by the events of 11 September 2001, which brought security to the forefront of Australian foreign policy. Canberra entered a controversial Free Trade Agreement with Washington in 2005, exemplifying the move from multilateralism to bilateralism in foreign economic relations. In response to the experience of coalition warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq, decisions were made to equip the Defence Force with the capacity to operate in remote theatres. But at a time of uncertain US-China rivalry, Australia was also faced with the problem of managing the growing strategic power of Beijing, reconciling security concerns with the fact that China's sustained rapid economic growth increasingly underwrote the strong performance of the Australian economy.

Australia in World Affairs 2011–2015
  • Navigating the New International Disorder
  • Volume 12
  • Edited by Australian Institute of International Affairs, Mark Beeson, Shahar Hameiri
  • Published online:
    04 May 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The twelfth volume, Australia in World Affairs 2011–2015: Navigating the New International Disorder, covered a turbulent period both domestically and internationally. Australia had four Prime Ministers in this period alone, there were growing challenges in the Middle East and Europe, as well as on Australia's own doorstep with the South China Sea disputes. Australia had a role in these multifaceted, complex and often unconventional global issues. The foreign policy landscape was very much about navigating the new international disorder and confronting unprecedented issues.

Australia in World Affairs 2006–2010
  • Middle Power Dreaming
  • Volume 11
  • Edited by Australian Institute of International Affairs, James Cotton, John Ravenhill
  • Published online:
    04 May 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The eleventh volume, Australia in World Affairs 2006–2010: Middle Power Dreaming, outlines the transition from Liberal–National Party Coalition to Labor government and shows the extent to which partisanship made a difference in Australian foreign policy. Shifting power relativities meant that Australian governments faced one of the most demanding and important tasks in their future management of foreign policy. Great attention continued to be paid to the US alliance, and new efforts were devoted to furthering security ties with US allies Japan and South Korea, as well as to enhancing Australia's military capabilities, all the while ensuring that the US remained engaged with whatever architecture emerged.

Australia in World Affairs 1966–1970
  • Volume 4
  • Edited by Australian Institute of International Affairs, Gordon Greenwood, Norman Harper
  • Published online:
    29 March 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The fourth volume, Australia in World Affairs 1966–1970, saw the transformation in Australia's position carried several stages further. Once a comparative bystander, Australia had become an active participant in great events. The increased commitment of Australian forces to the struggle in Vietnam not only produced deep fissures and much acrimonious debate within the Australian society, but also placed Australia in a theatre of political operation with which the great and the lesser powers were vitally concerned. It also brought to the fore hitherto largely unstated questions about the character of the United States alliance, the extent of Australian involvement in the United States defence system (especially through the growing number of American installations on Australian soil) and the degree of independence exercised, or indeed possessed, by Australia.

Australia in World Affairs 1976–1980
  • Independence and Alliance
  • Volume 6
  • Edited by Australian Institute of International Affairs, P. J. Boyce, J. R. Angel
  • Published online:
    29 March 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The sixth volume, Australia in World Affairs 1976–1980: Independence and Alliance, opens with the accession of Malcolm Fraser's Coalition government and closes with the departure of Andrew Peacock from the Foreign Affairs portfolio. The international environment changed appreciably during these five years, amid growing concern in the West at the reported decline of American military strength relative to that of the Soviet Union. Deteriorating economies in the West, restricted access to the enormous EEC market, increased uncertainty about long-term trade relations with Japan, and recognition of the Third World's increasingly vocal role in world affairs were additional causes of concern to Australian foreign policymakers, and these were issues with serious implications for Australian domestic politics as well.

Australia in World Affairs 1971–1975
  • Volume 5
  • Edited by Australian Institute of International Affairs
  • W. J. Hudson
  • Published online:
    29 March 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. This fifth volume, Australia in World Affairs 1971–1976, includes the final years of the Coalition's post-1949 time in government, and describes and evaluates the foreign policy and diplomacy of the Whitlam Labor Government. Gough Whitlam not only led his party to its first taste of power in almost a quarter of a century, but also dominated his government's dealings with the world outside. Where for so long Australia's external relations had been based on what were seen as 'natural' alignments – especially with Britain and the United States – the nation now faced the much more difficult problems involved in forging and maintaining alignments of convenience with states with whom she lacked ethnic, cultural or historical bonds, and from whom she could not expect any special consideration or tolerance.

Australia in World Affairs 1961–1965
  • Volume 3
  • Edited by Australian Institute of International Affairs
  • Gordon Greenwood, Norman Harper
  • Published online:
    29 March 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The third volume, Australia in World Affairs 1961–1965, is crowded with major events, with the tension over Berlin, acrimonious disputes over nuclear testing and the advance to the brink of war with Cuba. Chinese troops crossed the Indian frontiers, and Indian and Pakistani armies faced one another. Indonesia's confrontation of Malaysia challenged the security and stability of yet another area of South-East Asia. The United Nations suffered a grave financial crisis which threatened to bring the organisation to a halt. There were, too, events of measureless consequence: the explosion of the Chinese atomic bomb; the bitter controversy between China and the Soviet Union, which shattered the seemingly monolithic structure of Communism; the increasing US involvement in the defence of South Vietnam; and the continued probing of outer space.

Australia in World Affairs 1956–1960
  • Volume 2
  • Edited by Australian Institute of International Affairs, Gordon Greenwood, Norman Harper
  • Published online:
    29 March 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The second volume, Australia in World Affairs 1956–1960, begins with the crisis caused by the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company, the subsequent attack upon Egypt and the Hungarian revolt, and concludes with the civil war in Laos and the nagging friction between the Republic of Indonesia and the Netherlands over New Guinea. During this time, Australia's search for security continued and the three-pronged approach developed in the immediate post-war period was carried further: close association with a Britain becoming more deeply involved in Europe through NATO, and attracted by possible membership of the European Economic Community; collaboration with the United States as the dominant power in the Pacific and the Atlantic; and the development of mutual sympathy and understanding with important areas of the non-Communist Asian world.

Australia in World Affairs 1981–1990
  • Diplomacy in the Marketplace
  • Volume 7
  • Edited by Australian Institute of International Affairs, P. J. Boyce, J. R. Angel
  • Published online:
    29 March 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The seventh volume, Australia in World Affairs 1981–1990: Diplomacy in the Marketplace, coincides with the return of Labor to government in 1983, led by Bob Hawke. This decade saw the development of Australia's balance of trade and foreign debt problems, resulting preoccupation with the economic and trade aspects of Australian foreign policy. This mirrored the international trend towards protectionism and trading blocs. Concern over future access to European markets, and future competition with European exports in other markets, increased with the prospect of an integrated Europe. The Asia-Pacific region saw the emergence of Japan as an increasingly dominant power economically, and witnessed the extraordinary growth of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the ASEAN countries as rapidly developing, modernising and highly successful participants in world and regional trade.

Australia in World Affairs 1950–1955
  • Volume 1
  • Edited by Australian Institute of International Affairs, Gordon Greenwood, Norman Harper
  • Published online:
    29 March 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The first volume, Australia in World Affairs 1950–1955, uses the war in Korea as its starting point. Prior to the second world war, Australian security had rested upon geographical isolation, a favourable situation in Asia and the undeniable strength of Great Britain. The war deeply disturbed accepted ways of thinking about Australian security and, at least for a time, put an end to complacency. After the war, there was an increase in American influence across all levels of Australian society. This change transformed Australia's international situation, bringing a regard for American leadership in world affairs and a new emphasis on Asia and the Pacific, alongside the traditional relationship with the United Kingdom.