Trading on alliance security : Australia in world affairs 2001-2005/
edited by James Cotton and John Ravenhill
- Melbourne : Oxford Univ. Press, 2007
- xvi, 424 p.
Provides a historical overview of Australia's foreign policy during the five years since the 9-11 attacks in the USA. The period saw rapid change characterised by the growth of bilateral rather than multilateral arrangements, by the prominence of security, and by the linking of domestic and foreign concerns. Chapters in pert 2 cover Australia's relations with the USA, Southeast Asia, Japan, China, UK and Europe, the Pacific Ocean states, and West Asia. Part 3 deals with specific issues suh as defence, terrorism, economics; while Part 4 covers the political process of Australia's foreign policy.