Middling, meddling, muddling : issues in Australian foreign policy / edited by Richard Leaver and Dave Cox
- Bib ID:
- 1493651
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- St. Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 1997
- viii, 293 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1864483059 (paperback)
- Summary:
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This provocative collection of essays scrutinises the rhetoric and substance of Australian diplomacy. It presents a picture very different from the list of achievements proclaimed by Labor and inherited by the Coalition. Does Australia have a leading voice in international forums or is it simply one of many middling powers? Has it been a 'good international citizen' or a hyperactive meddler in international diplomacy? Is it a far-sighted influence for stability or a muddler making the best of short-term conditions? Through the arguments offered in this book the reader is introduced to Australian foreign policy in a way that is sure to provoke debate about present ambitions as well as past practice.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction: the world according to Gar / Richard Leaver and Dave Cox
- 2. Australia's global perspectives in the 1990s: a case of old Realist wine in new (neo-liberal) bottles? / Jim George
- 3. Multilateralism, nationalism and the problem of agency in international theory / Martin Griffiths
- 4. Patterns of dependence in post-war Australian foreign policy / Richard Leaver
- 5. European settler colonialism and national security ideologies in Australian history / John Fitzpatrick
- 6. Boosterism and myth-making: testing the veracity of the Hawke government's South Africa foreign policy / Dave Cox
- 7. The APEC dilemma: problems along the road to a new trade regime in the Pacific / Noel Tracy
- 8. Conventional arms control, conventional wisdom / Graeme Cheeseman
- 9. 'Middle power niche diplomacy' and nuclear non-proliferation: the failure in success / Richard Leaver
- 10. Looking West: DFAT (re)discovers the Indian Ocean / David Goldsworthy.
- 11. The road from Rio: multilateral cooperation gives way to national interest / Dave Cox
- 12. Conclusion: heritages and traditions / Richard Leaver and Dave Cox.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-284) and index.
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