Fear of abandonment : Australia in the world since 1942 / Allan Gyngell. Australia in the world since 1942.

Collection type	Library
Author	Gyngell, Allan, author.;
Call Number	327.94 G997f
Document type	Monograph
Year	2017. [2017].
Pagination	xi, 419 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher	La Trobe University Press in conjunction with Black Inc., La Trobe University Press in conjunction with Black Inc.,
Note	Regular print edition published: Carlton, VIC : La Trobe University Press, in conjunction with Black Inc., 2017. Copyright page from the original book. Optimized reading formats. Set in 16 point Verdana. Includes bibliographical references pages ([367]-398) and index. Everything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand the world outside and to respond effectively to it. In Fear of Abandonment, expert and insider Allan Gyngell tells the story of how Australia has shaped the world and been shaped by it since it established an independent foreign policy during the dangerous days of 1942. Gyngell argues that the fear of being abandoned ? originally by Britain, and later by our most powerful ally, the United States ? has been an importan t driver of how Australia acts in the world. Spanning events as diverse as the Malayan Emergency, the White Australia Policy, the Vietnam War, Whitlam in China, apartheid in South Africa, East Timorese independence and the current South China Sea dispute, this vivid narrative history reveals how Australia has evolved as a nation on the world stage. Fear of Abandonment is a gripping and authoritative account of the way Australians and their governments have helped create the world we now inhabit in the twe nty-first century. In revealing the history of Australian foreign affairs, it lays the foundation for understanding the challenges for the future ?Publisher.
Place made	Carlton, VIC : Carlton, VIC : 017.

Abstract

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 Indon esia-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 BritainThe 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 con trol 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 FraserDétente and its discontents; The Indian Ocean; Southern Africa; The Commonwealth; The Middle East; Australia and the internation al 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; AP EC; The ANZUS alliance and defence; The MX missile crisis; New Zealand; Kim Beazley and the 1987 defence white paper; Disarmament and arms control; The environment and the global rules; The Middle East Southern AfricaEurope and the end of the Cold War; 19 89 -- 7 A ''Post'' -World: The 1990s; The Gulf War and the new world order; Paul Keating; APEC leaders'' meetings; Southeast Asia; Cambodia; Indonesia; Malaysia; Vietnam; Regional security; India and the Indian Ocean; Gareth Evans; Good international citizen ship; The Chemical Weapons Convention; French nuclear tests; Human rights; Greening the international order; China; Japan; The United States; The South Pacific; Trade and the Uruguay Round; The Coalition takes ofice; The Coalition and China; The Asian fin ancial crisis -- 8 The National Security Decade: 1998-2008East Timor; John Howard; September 11, the United States alliance and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; Afghanistan commitment; Iraq preparation; The war begins; Violence in Iraq; Return to Afghani stan; Consequences and lessons; The South Pacific: Tending ''our patch''; Alexander Downer; PNG: The Enhanced Cooperation Program; Solomon Islands; Fiji; Asylum seekers; Southeast Asia; The Bali bombings; The Boxing Day tsunami; Timor-Leste; China; Japan; I ndia; Pakistan; Climate change and the environment; Global trade and the international economy; The return of geo-economics ? 9 afragmenting world 2008-2016 ? 10 What Australian foreign policy.