Australian Security After 9/11: New and Old Agendas

by McDougall,Derek; Shearman,Peter

• ISBN13: 9780754645153
• ISBN10: 0754645150
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Debates on security became more intense following the unanticipated end of the Cold War conflict and took on added force after the terrorist attacks on the US on September 11, 2001. Generally viewed as a part of the wider 'West' despite its separation by enormous geographical distances from both Europe and the United States, Australia is a regional power in its own right. It has been an active and loyal member of the US-led coalitions of the willing, first in Afghanistan and then in Iraq. The terrorist attacks in Bali one year after the attacks in the United States brought home to Australia the direct nature of the new global terrorist threats to its own security. This volume brings together leading experts on international security and Australia's foreign and security policies in a critical examination of Australia's adaptations to the new security challenges. It is the first in-depth and comprehensive analysis of Australia's defence and security policies as well as the country's role in countering regional and global challenges to international security since the war on terrorism began.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xv
List of Acronyms	xvi
Part 1: Setting the Scene: Global and Australian
The New Global Security Agenda	3	(10)
Gareth Evans
Old, New or Both? Australia's Security Agendas at the Start of the New Century	13	(16)
Hugh White
The American Empire: Past, Present and Future	29	(18)
Michael Cox
Identity Politics, New Security Agendas and the Anglosphere	47	(22)
Peter Shearman
The `New Security Environment' in the Asia-Pacific: An Australian Perspective	69	(18)
Nick Bisley
Part 2: Perspectives on Australian (and Australasian) Policy
Evolving Australian Security Interests in the Asia-Pacific: Policy Coherence or Disjunction?	87	(18)
William Tow
Australia and the `War on Terrorism': A Preliminary Assessment	105	(16)
Derek McDougall
Everything New is Old Again? Australia-Japan Relations, New Security and `The New Dispensation'	121	(22)
Richard Leaver
Australia and Indonesia: Living in Different Strategic Worlds	143	(18)
Richard Chauvel
Australasian Security Policy: Old Agenda Divergence, New Agenda Convergence?	161	(12)
Robert Ayson
Oceania and the New Security Agenda	173	(16)
John Henderson
Why Prime Ministers Go Too Far: The Case of John Howard	189	(18)
James Walter
Index	207