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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

Where once Australians felt remote from global power, they now find themselves closer to it.

Tied to Europe because of its colonial past and connected to the rest of the world by economics, Australia has never been an isolationist state. Australia has, over the past century, considered three possible ways in which to connect itself to the world. First, ally itself with a powerful ally, such as the United States or the People's Republic of China. Second, ally itself with its regional neighbors, such as Indonesia or the Solomon Islands. And third, seek a multinational, internationalist stance. However, Australian leaders should in the globalized, post-9/11 world, look to a new paradigm that combines all three approaches, which were in fact never entirely separable from each other. This combination will now produce "interrelated avenues to safety" militarily as well as economically.

Discusses the processes, institutions, actors and calculations involved in foreign policy making in Australia. Looks at the role of the government departments and intelligence organisations that support the government's policy-making, and the thinking of the people who make it, in more detail than ever before. It draws on an extensive survey of how Australian foreign affairs officials think about the world. This fully revised and updated edition includes four new chapters on Australia's security, prosperity, values and its place in the world. It includes two new case studies covering the negotiation of the US-Australia free trade agreement and Australia's regional mission to the Solomon Islands