Updated edition, covering Brexit, Trump, Xi's ambitions for China, and the geopolitical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic Everything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its ...capacity to understand the world outside and to respond effectively to it.In Fear of Abandonment, expert and insider Allan Gyngell tells the story of how Australia has shaped the world and been shaped by it since it established an independent foreign policy during the dangerous days of 1942. Gyngell argues that the fear of being abandoned – originally by Britain, and later by our most powerful ally, the United States – has been an important driver of how Australia acts in the world.Covering everything from the White Australia policy to the South China sea dispute, this is a gripping and authoritative account of the way Australians and their governments have helped create the world we now inhabit in the twenty-first century. In revealing the history of Australian foreign affairs, it lays the foundation for how it should change.Today Australia confronts a more difficult set of international challenges than any we have faced since 1942 – this new edition brings the story up to date.Allan Gyngell is National President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and an honorary professor at the Australian National University. His long career in Australian international relations included appointments as director- general of the Office of National Assessments and founding executive director of the Lowy Institute. He worked as a diplomat, policy officer and analyst in several government departments and as international adviser to Paul Keating. He is the co-author of Making Australian Foreign Policy and the author of Fear of Abandonment.
Some different international order will eventually emerge from these uncertain times, and Australia will want to shape it, and find a place in it, as best it can. Pressing questions arise. Can such a ...new order be marshalled without conflict? And where will the energy come from to sustain a stable international system? The articles in this outstanding edition of the 'Australian Journal of International Affairs' point to several productive places to begin. For most of the writers, the need for expansive thinking is key. In different ways they call, in the words of Lorraine Elliott, for scholars to look ‘up, inside, out and beyond’ in dealing with the world we now encounter.
The Uncertainty Principle Gyngell, Allan
SECURITY CHALLENGES,
01/2018, Letnik:
14, Številka:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
For governments in Westminster political systems, White Papers are a convenient, formal way to set out for public discussion their policy positions and legislative agendas on significant issues. The ...2015 White Paper on agricultural competitiveness and the Defence White Paper of 2016 were recent Australian examples.
For more than half a century, three broad objectives have formed the core of a bipartisan foreign policy consensus in Australia: support for the US alliance, the development of closer relations with ...Asia, and integration with a rules-based international order. Until now, we have lived in a world in which Australian governments have found it easy enough to keep all three in alignment. But that is changing. Foreign policy which, in Australia, has traditionally taken second place as a way of thinking about the world to security and defence policy is becoming more important and more complicated.
In the eccentric pattern of my professional career I've thought about, and worked on, Australia's place in the world from what feels like every available angle - as a diplomat, a policy adviser, an ...intelligence analyst, a political staffer, a think tanker, a sort of quasiacademic and historian.
Academic writers distinguish between three different sorts of public opinion dealing with foreign affairs.The first is a collection of what they term ‘issue publics’ or interest groups. People who ...join together for a particular purpose, to advance a cause they believe in. You can think here of groups like ICAN , the antinuclear weapons coalition that has just won the Nobel Peace Prize; of human rights groups like Amnesty International; of the scores of aid organisations working through the Australian Council for International Development; of trade organisations like the Australia-China Business Council; or groups promoting links with a particular country, such as the Australia-US Leadership Dialogue. A second, broader, group are the interested generalists – ‘the attentive public’ in the academic literature. These are the people who have a serious interest in the events of the world, who read the international pages of newspapers and blogs, listen to podcasts or radio programs and keep themselves informed. The final group is the general public. It’s true that short of wars, terrorist threats and high-profile consular cases, most voters have little interest in the technicalities of foreign policy. That’s not surprising. Foreign policy doesn’t lend itself to clear storytelling. Much of its work is elusive and incremental and happens behind closed doors and over time. It’s the work of persuasion.
The Rumble of Think Tanks Leahy, Tamara; Marston, Daniel P
War, Strategy and History,
05/2016
Book Chapter
Odprti dostop
Australia was late in developing a foreign policy separate from British imperial policy. Legislation to implement the Statute of Westminster establishing Australia’s full sovereign identity was not ...passed until 1942. Partly because of this, engaged individuals and institutions outside government have always played a role in shaping ideas about, and public attitudes towards, the way Australia protects and advances its international interests.
This chapter looks at one comparatively recent dimension of that nongovernment involvement in Australian public policy, the role of think tanks in Australian defence and foreign policy. It examines the reason for their emergence around the turn of
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