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"How does Australia's unique geographical, cultural and historical position influence its approach to foreign policy? What key challenges does Australia face on the world stage, and how can it overcome them? Reflecting the messy reality of foreign policy decision-making, this book helps you to understand the changes and continuities in Australia's approach. For example, does the US withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973 and collapse of South Vietnam continue to cast a shadow over Australian foreign policy, or is it relevant only in understanding the dynamics of the cold war? Using an Australian Strategic Culture framework, O'Keefe sheds light on the characteristics that make Australia behave in a way different to any other country. Equipping you with analytic skills to understand the main debates, this book is essential reading if you are a student of Australian foreign policy, as well as of broader Australian domestic and international politics"--

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Chemical Contamination of Food -- 1.2 Residue Analysis -- 1.3 Advances in Residue Analysis Methodologies -- 1.4 The Sample is the Key -- 1.5 Analytical Methods -- 1.6 Special Issues in Residue Analysis -- 1.7 Future -- References -- 2: Primary Extraction Technologies -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Types of residues -- 2.1.2 Justification for primary extraction -- 2.1.3 Difficulties in the analysis of residues -- 2.2 Stages in the Analysis of Residues in Food -- 2.2.1 Sampling -- 2.2.2 Transfer to the laboratory and storage -- 2.2.3 Thawing -- 2.2.4 Internal standard -- 2.2.5 Homogenisation -- 2.2.5.1 Milk -- 2.2.5.2 Eggs -- 2.2.5.3 Tissues -- 2.2.6 Enzyme/acid hydrolysis and digestion -- 2.2.7 (Primary) Extraction -- 2.2.8 Clean-up -- 2.2.8.1 Elimination of water -- 2.2.8.2 Elimination of fat -- 2.2.8.3 Elimination of proteins -- 2.2.8.4 Elimination of co-extractives -- 2.2.9 Solvent removal -- 2.2.10 End point determination -- 2.3 Liquid-Liquid Partitioning -- 2.3.1 Theory -- 2.3.1.1 Multiple extraction -- 2.3.1.2 Influence of pH -- 2.3.1.3 Influence of temperature -- 2.3.1.4 Ion-pairing -- 2.3.1.5 Salting-out -- 2.4 Recovery Estimation in Quantitative Analysis -- 2.5 Examples -- 2.5.1 Pesticides -- 2.5.2 ß-Agonists -- 2.5.3 Steroid hormones -- 2.5.3.1 Androgens -- 2.5.3.2 O estrogens -- 2.5.3.3 Progestagens -- 2.5.4 Antibiotics -- 2.5.4.1 Poly ethers -- 2.5.4.2 Macrolides -- 2.5.4.3 Chloramphenicol -- 2.5.5 Mycotoxins -- 2.5.6 Further reading -- 2.6 References -- 3: Sorbent Technologies : Principles and Applications -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Solid Phase Extraction -- 3.2.1 Adsorption mode -- 3.2.2 Size exclusion or permeation mode -- 3.2.3 Bonded phase partition mode.

In 2000 the Howard government formed a consultative committee to review defence policy and gauge public opinion on defence issues. It concentrated on the impact of budgetary stringency and dramatic strategic change and supported increased defence spending on equipment to cater for high‐level threats. Was there a thorough review? Inconsistencies occurred in the reports developed from the review and statements made by senior policy‐makers while it was being conducted. The way the review was undertaken points to conceptual tensions in Australia's strategic culture and serious problems with entrenched interests in the services. Unless these challenges are addressed, a thorough review of defence policy cannot be undertaken. The review process itself needs to be reviewed.

During the early 1960s, a number of prominent political and social theorists argued that one of the major results of the phenomenal economic growth of Western Europe after World War II was the "deradicalization" of politics. Ideology would cease to be a major' factor as the radical parties of the left and right responded to a breakdown in traditional class cleavages to pursue "pragmatic" programs of economic reforrn.! More recent studies focusing on value changes (Inglehart, 1971) and capital-labor confrontations (Hibbs, 1976) in these countries suggest, however, that ideological politics has not disappeared. This paper examines trends in strength of the communist parties in ten West European nations to determine whether their hypothesized decline as a result of economic development/ has occurred.

This paper entertains the possibility that a military-industrial complex does in fact exist; that it is not constrained by Congress; that arms policy continues to serve this complex; and that in fact, Congress legitimates MIC activity through ritualistic conflict. Laurance's hypothesis that Congress has recently taken a more active role in the policy process is challenged. Using Yarmolinsky's broader conception ofarms policy, it is argued that arms policy has not significantly changed even though Congressional action has become more conflictual. Finally, it is argued that the changed Congressional role is best understood in terms ofEdelman's reversal ofsystems theory.