Australia faces Southeast Asia
Author : Amry Vandenbosch
Publisher :
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 1967
Category :
ISBN : 9780835758895
Australia Faces Southeast Asia
Author : Amry Vandenbosch
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813182239
Book Description
Australia as a Western society in the Orient faces a unique and paradoxical challenge in her relations with her close but unfamiliar neighbors of Southeast Asia. Explicitly dependent upon British foreign policy until the fall of Singapore in 1942, Australia has reluctantly and painfully begun the task of developing a policy of her own. The Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia and many of the Pacific islands during the Second World War awakened Australia to the need to secure her own defenses and later, when Britain began a gradual withdrawal from Southeast Asia, Australia was thrown upon her own resources in dealing with her politically unstable and volatile neighbors and also with the larger Asian threat posed by Communist China. In Australia Faces Southeast Asia, Amry and MaryBelle Vandenbosch trace Australia's attempts to reconcile her cultural heritage and her geography.
Facing North
Author : David Goldsworthy
Publisher : Melbourne University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
History of Australia's relations with Asia from the 1970s to the present, a companion volume to the first 'Facing North' which chronicled Asian-Australian relations from Federation to the 1970s. Discusses issues of integration over the past four decades as Australia turned to Asia for greater political, social and economic opportunities. Topics covered include regional economic co-operation, human rights diplomacy, Indochina, East Timor, social and cultural engagement and immigration and multiculturalism. Includes photos, notes, bibliography, index and appendices of lists of prime ministers, ministers and secretaries of foreign affairs and trade, overseas Asian representation in Australia, immigration statistics, refugee statistics, AusAID tables, trade statistics and APEC and ASEAN meetings. Foreword by Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer. Edwards is the official historian and general editor of the 'Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian conflicts 1948-75'. Goldsworthy is an honorary professorial fellow in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University.
About Face
Author : Alison Broinowski
Publisher : Scribe Publications Pty Limited
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
This study explores how Australia appears to people from to Asian societies with the most significant interactions with Australia. The surveys concentrate on people whose views are on the public record in various media, who significantly reflect opinion in their society, and who can therefore be taken to be both influential and to some extent representative. The results of this comprehensive survey, which suggest Australia has an image problem in the region, are detailed.
Looking North to South-East Asia
Author : Australian Institute of International Affairs
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Book Description
Australia And South Asia: The Crystallisation Of A Relationship
Author : Ravindra Varma
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2003-06
Category :
ISBN : 8170170109
Book Description
Southeast Asia has become a battleground of power-politics today where even the so-called “Middle Powers” have their vital stakes. Australia’s participation in the Southeast Asian drama has naturally aroused the interest of commentators and policy-makers in Asia and abroad. Australia is Asia’s nearest “white” neighbour and 70% of its diplomatic activity is concerned with Asian affairs. Dr. Ravindra Varma’s analysis of Australia’s involvement in Southeast Asia since the Second World War forms the first full-length study by an Asian writer of Australia’s Asian policies. The book has grown out of the author’s research in India, Australia and a number of Southeast Asian countries, such as, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, South Vietnam, The Philippines and Indonesia. His discussions with officials, politicians, diplomats and statesmen of various nations in the area have helped the book to achieve a perspective which is intimate and detached at the same time. The book is indispensable to students of international politics in general and specialists on South and Southeast Asia in particular.
Facing Asia
Author : Daniel Oakman
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1921666935
Book Description
'No nation can escape its geography', warned Percy Spender, Australia's Minister for External Affairs, in 1950. With the immediate turmoil of World War II over, communism and decolonisation had ended any possibility that Asia could continue to be ignored by Australia. In the early 1950s, Australia embarked on its most ambitious attempt to engage with Asia: the Colombo Plan. This book examines the public and private agendas behind Australia's foreign aid diplomacy and reveals the strategic, political and cultural aims that drove the Colombo Plan. It examines the legacy of WWII, how foreign aid was seen as crucial to achieving regional security, how the plan was sold to Australian and Asian audiences, and the changing nature of Australia's relationship with Britain and the United States. Above all this is the question of how Australia sought to project itself into the region, and how Asia was introduced into the Australian consciousness. In answering these questions, this book tells the story of how an insular society, deeply scarred by the turbulence of war, chose to face its regional future.
Australia-New Zealand & Southeast Asia Relations
Author : Kin Wah Chin
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9812302891
Book Description
This report finds that despite past differences and periodic setbacks, the relationship between ANZ and Southeast Asia has become increasingly solid and multi-faceted, as successive Australian, New Zealand and Southeast Asian governments have taken steps since the early 1970s to facilitate mutual ties and interaction in a wide range of areas. What is most striking is that in recent years much of the real substance in the relationship between ANZ and Southeast Asia has developed without the direct assistance or guidance of governments as private business, education and travel have mushroomed. From being largely government-fostered in the 1970s, the links between the two regions have become more broadly based and oriented towards closer contacts between people. This is the "soft power" of the new relationship between ANZ and Southeast Asia.
Peninsular Southeast Asia
Author : Army Library (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN :
Book Description
Understanding Australia's Neighbours
Author : Nick Knight
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521157137
Book Description
A comprehensive introduction to the study of Asia. Written thematically, it provides comparisons between Asian and Australian societies and encourages readers to think about Australia's neighbours across a wide range of social, economic and historical contexts.
