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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 May 2010
      11 February 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511720543
      9780521714273
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511720543
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      (215 x 137 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 304 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Politics: General Interest, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
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    Rarely has security been such a preoccupation of Australian politics, and rarely has it seemed so far from being achieved. This celebrated book argues that security has dominated and distorted Australia's foreign policy and national life, from Cook's first voyage to the Tampa crisis, 9/11 and Iraq. Whether in the Great War, Vietnam or the treatment of asylum seekers, Anthony Burke shows that Australia's security has been bought with the insecurity and suffering of others. Against this corrosive tradition, he offers a new - cosmopolitan and non-coercive - model of national existence and responsibility. At once a deep historical survey and an argument with its society, Fear of Security is a landmark account of how Australia relates to itself, its region and the world. Turning powerful academic and political orthodoxies on their heads, it is essential reading for those concerned with the burning questions that face Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

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