Fear of abandonment: Australia in the world since 1942

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Us and Them -- 1 Fear of Abandonment -- 2 Asia and Decolonisation: The 1940s to the 1960s -- H.V. Evatt -- Indonesian independence -- Alarms and anxieties -- The Malayan Emergency -- Richard Gardiner Casey -- West New Guinea -- Garfield Barwick -- The Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation -- Relations with the Indonesian New Order -- ASEAN -- Papua New Guinea -- The Southwest Pacific -- China -- White Australia -- 3 Great and Powerful Friends: The 1940s to the 1960s -- The Cold War and the Petrov case -- Percy Spender: Getting to ANZUS -- SEATO -- Suez -- The drift from Britain -- The Vietnam War -- Paul Hasluck -- 4 Organising The World: The 1940s to the 1960s -- The institutions of the post-war world -- Bretton Woods and the global economy -- Aid and the Colombo Plan -- The Commonwealth -- Arms control and the nuclear threat 89 Trade, the GATT and the Australia-Japan Commerce Agreement -- Trade, the GATT and the Australia-Japan Commerce Agreement -- Cul de sac -- 5 Transitions: The 1970s -- Gough Whitlam -- Race and immigration -- Indochina -- ASEAN and Asian regionalism -- Indonesia and East Timor -- China -- Japan -- Papua New Guinea and the Southwest Pacific -- The US alliance -- Malcolm Fraser -- Détente and its discontents -- The Indian Ocean -- Southern Africa -- The Commonwealth -- The Middle East -- Australia and the international economy -- The rules-based order -- Law of the sea and Antarctica -- Nuclear issues -- The end of the 1970s -- 6 Opening Up: The 1980s -- Southeast Asia -- Bob Hawke -- Bill Hayden -- Indonesia -- South Pacific -- Internationalising the economy -- China -- Japan and Korea -- APEC -- The ANZUS alliance and defence -- The MX missile crisis -- New Zealand -- Kim Beazley and the 1987 defence white paper -- Disarmament and arms control