Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity write by Dan Halvorson. This book was released on 2019-01-01. Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Australia's engagement with Asia from 1944 until the late 1960s was based on a sense of responsibility to the United Kingdom and its Southeast Asian colonies as they navigated a turbulent independence into the British Commonwealth. The circumstances of the early Cold War decades also provided for a mutual sense of solidarity with the non-communist states of East Asia, with which Australia mostly enjoyed close relationships. From 1967 into the early 1970s, however, Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity demonstrates that the framework for this deep Australian engagement with its region was progressively eroded by a series of compounding, external factors: the 1967 formation of ASEAN and its consolidation by the mid-1970s as the premier regional organisation surpassing the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC); Britain's withdrawal from East of Suez; Washington's de-escalation and gradual withdrawal from Vietnam after March 1968; the 1969 Nixon doctrine that America's Asia-Pacific allies must take up more of the burden of providing for their own security; and US rapprochement with China in 1972. The book shows that these profound changes marked the start of Australia's political distancing from the region during the 1970s despite the intentions, efforts and policies of governments from Whitlam onwards to foster deeper engagement. By 1974, Australia had been pushed to the margins of the region, with its engagement premised on a broadening but shallower transactional basis.
Australia's Own Cold War
Australia's Own Cold War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Australia's Own Cold War write by Tom Sheridan. This book was released on 2006. Australia's Own Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tom Sheridan's authoritative account of the complex interplay between government, shipowners, management and waterside workers is a compelling tour de force of labour history. By focusing on the personalities, strategies and values of the players on all he challenges our understanding of the era and the issues.
Fighting Australia’s Cold War
Fighting Australia’s Cold War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fighting Australia’s Cold War write by Peter Dean. This book was released on 2021-11-30. Fighting Australia’s Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the first two decades of the Cold War, Australia fought in three conflicts and prepared to fight in a possible wider conflagration in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In Korea, Malaya and Borneo, Australian forces encountered new types of warfare, integrated new equipment and ideas, and were part of the longest continual overseas deployments in Australia’s history. Working closely with its allies, Australia also trained for a large conventional war in Southeast Asia, while a significant percentage of the defence force guarded the Papua New Guinea–Indonesian border. At home, the Defence organisation grappled with new threats and military expansion, while the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation defended the nation from domestic and foreign threats. This book examines this crucial part of Australia’s security history, so often overlooked as merely a precursor to the Vietnam War. It addresses key questions such as how did Australia achieve its security goals at home and in the region in this new Cold War environment? What were the experiences of the services, units and individuals serving in Southeast Asia? How did this period shape Australia’s defence for years to come?
A Concise History of Australia
A Concise History of Australia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Concise History of Australia write by Stuart Macintyre. This book was released on 2020-12-10. A Concise History of Australia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present. Integrating new scholarship with the historical record, the fifth edition of A Concise History of Australia brings together the long narrative of Australia's First Nations' peoples; the arrival of Europeans and the era of colonies, convicts, gold and free settlers; the foundation of a nation state; and the social, cultural, political and economic developments that created a modern Australia. As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, Macintyre's Australia remains one of achievements and failures. So too the future possibilities are deeply rooted in the country's past endeavours. A Concise History of Australia is an invitation to examine this past.
Cold War and Decolonisation
Cold War and Decolonisation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cold War and Decolonisation write by Andrea Benvenuti. This book was released on 2017-05-12. Cold War and Decolonisation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Australia’s policy towards Britain’s end of empire in Southeast Asia influenced the course of this decolonization in the region. In this book, Andrea Benvenuti discusses the development of Australia’s foreign and defence policies towards Malaya and Singapore in light of the redefinition of Britain’s imperial role in Southeast Asia and the formation of new post-colonial states. Placed within the emerging literature on the global impact of the Cold War, the book sheds new light on the choices made – by Australia, by Britain and the new emerging states – in these crucial years.
