Menzies And The Great World Struggle
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Menzies And The Great World Struggle
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Author : David Lowe
language : en
Publisher: UNSW Press
Release Date : 1999
Menzies And The Great World Struggle written by David Lowe and has been published by UNSW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Australia categories.
Lowe (history, Deakin U.) finds prime minister Robert Menzies to be the towering figure of the age as he explores the Cold War from Australia's perspective. He pivots on the three themes of the threat of a third world war and the imperatives of Australia's rapid economic development.
The Genesis Of A Policy
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Author : Honae Cuffe
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2021-11-16
The Genesis Of A Policy written by Honae Cuffe and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with History categories.
The years 1921–57 marked a period of immense upheaval for Australia as the nation navigated economic crises, the threat of aggressive Japanese expansion and shifting power distributions with the world transitioning from British leadership to that of the US. This book offers a reassessment of Australia’s foreign policy origins and maturation during these tumultuous years. Successive Australian governments carefully observed these global and regional forces. The policy that developed in response was an integrated one—that is, one that sought to balance Australia’s particular geopolitical circumstances with great power relationships and, in assessing the value of these relationships, ensure that the nation’s trade, security and diplomatic interests were served. Amid the economic and strategic uncertainty of the interwar years, the Australian government acknowledged the shifting power distributions in the global and Asia-Pacific orders and that neither the policies of Britain nor the US completely served the national interest. The nation, accordingly, sought to intervene within the policies of the great powers to ensure its particular interests were secured. This geopolitically informed, interventionist approach, which had its genesis in the 1930s, is traced throughout the 1940s and 1950s, highlighting Australia’s gradual and uneven transition from the British world order to that of the US and the frank assessments made about which relationship best served Australia’s interests. The Genesis of a Policy identifies a comprehensive and pragmatic approach—albeit not always effectively executed—in Australian foreign policy tradition that has not been previously examined.
A Concise History Of Australia
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Author : Stuart Macintyre
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-08-24
A Concise History Of Australia written by Stuart Macintyre and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-24 with History categories.
Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, in a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions has long been frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness. This revised edition incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary historical debates on frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations. It covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the 'Pacific solution'. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future.
Ministers Mandarins And Diplomats
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language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Ministers Mandarins And Diplomats written by and has been published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
In the three decades from the beginning of World War II Australia emerged on the world stage as an independent actor in foreign affairs. The key institution overseeing the development of Australia's international status and foreign policy during that period was the Department of External Affairs. This stimulating collection of essays explores the history of this government department as it grew from being a small amateur bureaucratic player to become a professional global network. This book sheds new light on the major figures in Australian international history, H. V. 'Doc' Evatt, Percy Spender, Richard Casey, Garfield Barwick and Paul Hasluckandmdash;and their relationships with their senior bureaucratic advisers. The experiences of Australian diplomats, as they joined the Department of External Affairs as junior recruits and worked overseas, are also examined. Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats tells the story of the people, the events and the ideas that shaped Australian foreign policy and gave Australia its identity in the eyes of the rest of the world.
Nonalignment And Peace Versus Military Alignment And War
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Author : Nihal Henry Kuruppu
language : en
Publisher: Academic Foundation
Release Date : 2004
Nonalignment And Peace Versus Military Alignment And War written by Nihal Henry Kuruppu and has been published by Academic Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Australia categories.
The Book Posits That The India-Australia Relationship Has Greater Significance Than Previously Recognised, As The Largest Democracy In The World (One Of The Few In The Region That Has Steadfastly Clung To A Robust Democracy In The Face Of Considerable Challenges, Including Early Western Pessimism About Its Future Viability), India, In View Of Some, Is On Course To Become A Major Player In Global Trade And Regional Politics In The New Century.
The Australian Pursuit Of Japanese War Criminals 1943 1957
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Author : Dean Aszkielowicz
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-05
The Australian Pursuit Of Japanese War Criminals 1943 1957 written by Dean Aszkielowicz and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with History categories.
Australian Foreign Policy In Asia
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Author : Allan Patience
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-12-12
Australian Foreign Policy In Asia written by Allan Patience and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-12 with Political Science categories.
This book sets out to discuss what kind of ‘middle power’ Australia is, and whether its identity as a middle power negatively influences its relationship with Asia. It looks at the history of the middle power concept, develops three concepts of middle power status and examines Australia’s relationships with China, Japan and Indonesia as a focus. It argues that Australia is an ‘awkward partner’ in its relations with Asia due to both its historical colonial and discriminatory past, as well its current dependence upon the United States for a security alliance. It argues this should be changed by adopting a new middle power concept in Australian foreign policy.
Civil Society And Postwar Pacific Basin Reconciliation
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Author : Yasuko Claremont
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-15
Civil Society And Postwar Pacific Basin Reconciliation written by Yasuko Claremont and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with History categories.
This book brings together discussions of leading aspects and repercussions of the Asia-Pacific War, which still have huge relevance today. From the development of war guilt to the vivid effect of art on bringing alive the realities of the war, it analyses a diversity of post-war issues in the Pacific Basin. Organised into five parts, the book begins by scrutinizing the conflicting attitudes towards Japanese post-war society and identifies the various legacies of the war. It also provides an examination of the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagaski, before studying contemporary civil society and analysing the way memories of the war have changed with time. Each of the chapters discusses the Japanese government’s inability to achieve reconciliation with its neighbours, despite the passage of over 70 years, and the denial of the atrocities committed by the Imperial Army. Arguing that this policy of continuous denial has triggered the rise of civil movements in Japan, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese History and Japanese Studies in general.
Commonwealth Responsibility And Cold War Solidarity
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Author : Dan Halvorson
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2019-01-01
Commonwealth Responsibility And Cold War Solidarity written by Dan Halvorson and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Asia categories.
Australia's engagement with Asia from 1944 until the late 1960s was based on a sense of responsibility to the United Kingdom and its Southeast Asian colonies as they navigated a turbulent independence into the British Commonwealth. The circumstances of the early Cold War decades also provided for a mutual sense of solidarity with the non-communist states of East Asia, with which Australia mostly enjoyed close relationships. From 1967 into the early 1970s, however, Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity demonstrates that the framework for this deep Australian engagement with its region was progressively eroded by a series of compounding, external factors: the 1967 formation of ASEAN and its consolidation by the mid-1970s as the premier regional organisation surpassing the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC); Britain's withdrawal from East of Suez; Washington's de-escalation and gradual withdrawal from Vietnam after March 1968; the 1969 Nixon doctrine that America's Asia-Pacific allies must take up more of the burden of providing for their own security; and US rapprochement with China in 1972. The book shows that these profound changes marked the start of Australia's political distancing from the region during the 1970s despite the intentions, efforts and policies of governments from Whitlam onwards to foster deeper engagement. By 1974, Australia had been pushed to the margins of the region, with its engagement premised on a broadening but shallower transactional basis.
The Empire Project
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Author : John Darwin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-09-24
The Empire Project written by John Darwin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-24 with History categories.
The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.