Island Off the Coast of Asia - Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy

This is an unprecedented 230-year study that reveals the full arsenal of Australian foreign policy: diplomacy, law, investment, research, negotiations, military force and espionage. It shows the central role of economic actors in defining and pursuing the "national interest."

List of contents

1.The organising principle of Australian foreign policy
2.A Sub-Imperial Reflex
3.The military instrument: ANZUS
4.The military instrument: Malaya
5.Vietnam and the Transformation of Australian Life
6.The military instrument: Indonesia
7.The Legal Instrument and Australia's off-shore energy riches
8.The Challenge of the New International Economic Order
9.The economic instrument, 1983-1999
10.Financial Instruments: 1998 to the present
11.Current Policy Priorities
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author

About the author

Clinton Fernandes teaches at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.

Summary

This is an unprecedented 230-year study that reveals the full arsenal of Australian foreign policy: diplomacy, law, investment, research, negotiations, military force and espionage. It shows the central role of economic actors in defining and pursuing the "national interest."

Product details

• Authors: Clinton Fernandes, Fernandes Clinton
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781498565448
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6544-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Geopolitics, International Relations, Politics & government, Politics and government, Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands, Australasia, Oceania & other land areas