Continental Drift: Australia's Search for a Regional IdentityThis title was first published in 2003. Original, insightful and well-organized, Rawdon Dalrymple studies Australia's sense of vulnerability and attachment to distant protectors which has coexisted with tendencies of both assertiveness and complacency. Penetrating and authoritative the book examines the cautious development of Australian relations with East Asia during the 1980s and 1990s, with detailed coverage of the background to the Australian effort and critical analysis of where Australian forays into the politics of the region leave its standing in East Asia and the world today. |
Contents
Approaching an Independent Australian Foreign and Defence Policy | |
The Persistence and Decline of Dependence | |
Promoting Australias Asian Future | |
Commitments and Hesitations | |
Development Values Solidarity and Fault Lines | |
Australian Efforts to Qualify | |
Dealing with Indonesia | |
East Timor and the Watershed in Policy | |
Opportunities and Constraints | |
Bibliography | |
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Continental Drift: Australia's Search for a Regional Identity Rawdon Dalrymple No preview available - 2018 |
Continental Drift: Australia's Search for a Regional Identity Rawdon Dalrymple No preview available - 2019 |
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