Continental Drift

Australia's Search for a Regional Identity

Rawdon Dalrymple (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-72531-7 (ISBN)

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This title was first published in 2003. Penetrating and authoritative, this 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.

This 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.

During a distinguished career in the Australian foreign service, Rawdon Dalrymple was on the Board of the Asian Development Bank, Minister in the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Australian Ambassador to Israel, Indonesia, the United States and Japan and Deputy Secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs. After retirement in 1994 he worked with Australian and international companies doing business in Asia and since 1997 he has taught at the University of Sydney where he has been a Visiting Professor. He has written extensively on international relations and has a monthly column in a major Japanese newspaper.

Contents: Introduction; Living with vulnerability - from the beginning to 1983; Approaching an independent Australian foreign and defence policy; The persistence and decline of dependence; Promoting Australia's 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; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-72531-5 / 1138725315
ISBN-13	978-1-138-72531-7 / 9781138725317
Zustand	Neuware