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Australia in World Affairs 1991–1995
  • Seeking Asian Engagement
  • Volume 8
  • Edited by James Cotton, John Ravenhill
  • Published online:
    04 May 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The period covered by the eighth volume, Australia in World Affairs 1991–1995: Seeking Asian Engagement, saw a change in emphasis of Australia's foreign policies, particularly a push for closer relations with Asia. Australia's relations with the four newly industrialising countries of Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Singapore and Taiwan are introduced for the first time. This volume contains a mix of reflective, thematic and country studies, and covers topics such as Australia and the global economy, Australia and the environment and, for the first time, the relationship between Australia and New Zealand, along with traditional topics such as defence policies and relations with the United States.

Australia in World Affairs 2006–2010
  • Middle Power Dreaming
  • Volume 11
  • Edited by James Cotton, John Ravenhill
  • Published online:
    04 May 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The eleventh volume, Australia in World Affairs 2006–2010: Middle Power Dreaming, outlines the transition from Liberal–National Party Coalition to Labor government and shows the extent to which partisanship made a difference in Australian foreign policy. Shifting power relativities meant that Australian governments faced one of the most demanding and important tasks in their future management of foreign policy. Great attention continued to be paid to the US alliance, and new efforts were devoted to furthering security ties with US allies Japan and South Korea, as well as to enhancing Australia's military capabilities, all the while ensuring that the US remained engaged with whatever architecture emerged.

Australia in World Affairs 1996–2000
  • The National Interest in a Global Era
  • Volume 9
  • Edited by James Cotton, John Ravenhill
  • Published online:
    04 May 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The ninth volume, Australia in World Affairs 1996–2000: The National Interest in a Global Era, covers an active and eventful period in Australia's foreign relations. During the years 1996–2000, Australia was led by two Coalition governments under the prime ministership of John Howard, with Alexander Downer as Foreign Minister. The issues confronting the government, no less than the policies devised to deal with them, exhibited some significant contrasts with those of the first half of the decade. This volume deals both with major substantive issues in Australian foreign policy (human rights, defence, the environment, East Timor, the economy, the Asian economic crisis) and with important bilateral relationships (with Japan, China, the United States and Europe), and examines Australia's foreign policy relationships with Latin America and with South Asia.

Australia in World Affairs 2001–2005
  • Trading on Alliance Security
  • Volume 10
  • Edited by James Cotton, John Ravenhill
  • Published online:
    04 May 2024
  • The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The tenth volume, Australia in World Affairs 2001–2005: Trading on Alliance Security, is defined by the events of 11 September 2001, which brought security to the forefront of Australian foreign policy. Canberra entered a controversial Free Trade Agreement with Washington in 2005, exemplifying the move from multilateralism to bilateralism in foreign economic relations. In response to the experience of coalition warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq, decisions were made to equip the Defence Force with the capacity to operate in remote theatres. But at a time of uncertain US-China rivalry, Australia was also faced with the problem of managing the growing strategic power of Beijing, reconciling security concerns with the fact that China's sustained rapid economic growth increasingly underwrote the strong performance of the Australian economy.

  • 1 - Australia in World Affairs 1996–2000

  • from Part I - Setting the Scene
  • Edited by James Cotton, University of New South Wales, Sydney, John Ravenhill, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    Australia in World Affairs 1996–2000
    Published online:
    04 May 2024, pp 3-7

  • Summary

    When planning for this volume commenced in 1997, few signs were present of the turbulence that was to engulf Australian policies in the last years of the twentieth century. Prime Minister John Howard’s desire that Australians should feel ’comfortable’ seemed to have been realised in the foreign policy arena. To reinforce this sense of comfort, the new government, which assumed office in March 1996, sought to reinforce relations with ’great and powerful friends’, particularly the United States. The relationship with traditional friends in Europe was also given a boost: the government characterised its new policy direction with the catch-phrase ’Asia first, but not Asia only’.

  • 1 - ‘Trading on Alliance Security’: Foreign Policy in the Post-11 September Era

  • from Part 1 - The Foreign Policy Scene
  • Edited by James Cotton, University of New South Wales, Sydney, John Ravenhill, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book:
    Australia in World Affairs 2001–2005
    Published online:
    04 May 2024, pp 3-16

  • Summary

    Foreign policy in the period covered in this volume was largely dominated by the Australian response to the events of 11 September 2001 and its consequences. A federal election campaign was keenly anticipated at that time, but foreign policy issues – beyond the question of the treatment of asylum seekers – were not expected to be a major concern. Little that had happened so far in that year prefigured what was to come. The new George W. Bush administration in Washington had signalled its intention to adopt a distinctive and less internationalist stance, refusing to adhere to the Kyoto Protocol (intended to restrain the global emission of greenhouse gases) and taking a much more critical view of the rising power of China. Although there were signs that on these issues Australia was likely to follow the US lead, and the initiation of studies on the impact of a free trade agreement with the USA was a further indicator of the potential similarities in outlook of the two governments, the closeness post-11 September of the Howard Government’s alignment with its Washington counterpart surprised even some conservative commentators.

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