Australia's Foreign Relations. In The World Of The 1990s

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1995
Edition: Second Edition

Description: 417 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The most rigorous, lively and comprehensive insider account of the way Australian foreign policy works.honest, and provides a framework against which to judge foreign policy actions and achievements Cameron Forbes, AgeIt will stand for the thoughtful Asian as the major document of Australias credentials for regional partnership . . . a dossier of almost everything you need to know about contemporary Australian foreign policy. Professor Stephen Fitzgerald, Director, Asia-Australia InstituteAustralias Foreign Relations is the most rigorous, lively and comprehensive insider account ever written about the shape and direction of Australian foreign policy. This thoroughly revised edition keeps it fully abreast of a changing world.This book is indispensable for anyone who follows current affairs. Its contents range from a concise analysis of the practice and politics of making foreign policy-what it is that diplomats and foreign ministers do-to the exploration of Australias relationships, as a middle power, with all regions of the world. Among the many subjects covered is the new internationalist agenda, from human rights and global environmental issues to arms control.Australias Foreign Relations will be equally valuable for students of politics, history, international relations and economics-for, as the authors stress, foreign policy and Australias economic fortunes are now inextricably linked.

ISBN: 9780522846577