The Colombo Plan Focus - 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 The Colombo Plan Focus write by . This book was released on 2003. The Colombo Plan Focus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Facing Asia
Facing Asia - 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 Facing Asia write by Daniel Oakman. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Facing Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'No nation can escape its geography', warned Percy Spender, Australia's Minister for External Affairs, in 1950. With the immediate turmoil of World War II over, communism and decolonisation had ended any possibility that Asia could continue to be ignored by Australia. In the early 1950s, Australia embarked on its most ambitious attempt to engage with Asia: the Colombo Plan. This book examines the public and private agendas behind Australia's foreign aid diplomacy and reveals the strategic, political and cultural aims that drove the Colombo Plan. It examines the legacy of WWII, how foreign aid was seen as crucial to achieving regional security, how the plan was sold to Australian and Asian audiences, and the changing nature of Australia's relationship with Britain and the United States. Above all this is the question of how Australia sought to project itself into the region, and how Asia was introduced into the Australian consciousness. In answering these questions, this book tells the story of how an insular society, deeply scarred by the turbulence of war, chose to face its regional future.
The Transformation of the International Order of Asia
The Transformation of the International Order of Asia - 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 The Transformation of the International Order of Asia write by Shigeru Akita. This book was released on 2014-07-25. The Transformation of the International Order of Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Asia the 1950s were dominated by political decolonization and the emergence of the Cold War system, and newly independent countries were able to utilize the transformed balance of power for their own economic development through economic and strategic aid programmes. This book examines the interconnections between the transfer of power and state governance in Asia, the emergence of the Cold War, and the transfer of hegemony from the UK to the US, by focusing specifically on the historical roles of international economic aid and the autonomous response from Asian nation states in the immediate post-war context. The Transformation of the International Order of Asia offers closely interwoven perspectives on international economic and political relations from the 1950s to the 1960s, with specific focus on the Colombo Plan and related aid policies of the time. It shows how the plan served different purposes: Britain’s aim to reduce India’s wartime sterling balances in London; the quest for India’s economic independence under Jawaharlal Nehru; Japan’s regional economic assertion and its endeavour to improve its international status; Britain’s publicity policy during the reorganization of British aid policies at a time of economic crisis; and more broadly, the West’s desire to counter Soviet influence in Asia. In doing so, the chapters explore how international economic aid relations became reorganized in relation to the independent development of states in Asia during the period, and crucially, the role this transformation played in the emergence of a new international order in Asia. Drawing on a wide range of international contemporary and archival source materials, this book will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in Asian, international, and economic history, politics and development studies.
The Social Sciences in the Asian Century
The Social Sciences in the Asian Century - 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 The Social Sciences in the Asian Century write by Carol Johnson. This book was released on 2015-09-30. The Social Sciences in the Asian Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit of dialogue between the diverse theories and methods of social sciences in the region, the role of the social sciences in addressing real-world problems, the need to transcend national boundaries in addressing regional problems, and the challenges for an increasingly globalised higher education sector in the twenty-first century. The chapters are a combination of theoretical reflections and locally focused case studies of processes that are embedded in global dynamics and the changing geopolitics of knowledge. In an increasingly connected world, these reflections will be of global relevance
Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975
Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975 - 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 in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975 write by Nicholas Ferns. This book was released on 2020-07-18. Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines Australian colonial and foreign aid policy towards Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia in the age of international development (1945–1975). During this period, the academic and political understandings of development consolidated and informed Australian attempts to provide economic assistance to the poorer regions to its north. Development was central to the Australian colonial administration of PNG, as well as its Colombo Plan aid in Asia. In addition to examining Australia’s perception of international development, this book also demonstrates how these debates and policies informed Australia’s understanding of its own development. This manifested itself most clearly in Australia’s behavior at the 1964 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The book concludes with a discussion of development and Australian foreign aid in the decade leading up to Papua New Guinea’s independence, achieved in 1975.
