| Main Title: |
Dangerous allies / Malcolm Fraser with Cain Roberts. |
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| Author: |
Fraser, Malcolm, 1930-2015
Roberts, Cain
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| Imprint: |
Carlton, Victoria Melbourne University Press, ||2014 |
| Collation: |
viii, 360 pages ; hbk, 25 cm. |
| Summary: |
Australia has always been reliant on .."great and powerful friends" for its sense of national security and for direction on its foreign policy..first on the British Empire and now on the United States. Australia has actively pursued a policy of strategic dependence, believing that making a grand bargain with a powerful ally was the best policy to ensure its security and prosperity. This book examines Australia's history of strategic dependence and questions the continuation of this position. It argues that international circumstances, in the world and in the Western Pacific especially, now make such a policy highly questionable. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States has also changed dramatically, making it less relevant to Australia and a less appropriate ally on which Australia should rely. Malcolm Fraser argues that Australia should adopt a much greater degree of independence in foreign policy, and that we should no longer merely follow a "great and powerful friend" into wars of no direct interest to Australia or Australia's security. |
| Subject: |
Foreign policy and relations
Politics and Government - Australia
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| ISBN: |
9780522862652 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-346) and index.
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