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Record Nr.

UNINA9910338048003321

Autore

Peters Michael

Titolo

Regulating the Rise of China : Australia’s Foray into Middle Power Economics / / by Michael Peters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-05466-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 pages)

Collana

Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy, , 2524-745X

Disciplina

332.6730951

337.94051

Soggetti

Political planning

Asia - Politics and government

International economic relations

Executive power

Security, International

Economic policy

Public Policy

Asian Politics

International Political Economy’

Executive Politics

International Security Studies

Economic Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Governmental Policy Analysis -- Chapter Three: The Policy Departure -- Chapter Four: The Policy Problemetisation -- Chapter Five: Official Discourses of Economics -- Chapter Six: Official Discourses of Security -- Chapter Seven: A governmental account of the policy -- Chapter Eight: Evaluating the Policy -- Chapter Nine: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book revises the existing account of the first Rudd Government's engagement with China, placing Australian foreign direct investment screening policy at the centre of the story. At the time, the Rudd



Government was accused of holding an unnecessarily interventionist approach to Chinese Sovereign-Owned Enterprise investments into the Australian mining sector. This book claims that the Australian Government had a deep and coherent understanding of the problem posed by Chinese investments that went well-beyond any simplistic 'China Inc.' or geopolitical threats. The key policymakers believed that the Chinese state-directed investments threatened the integrity of the liberal governance structures on which the Australian state is founded, and so Australian sovereignty itself. While the response of the Rudd Government was largely ineffectual, the logic underpinning it remains the best framework for guiding Australia's engagement with China into the 2020s, as well as the engagement of other liberal states coming to grips with China's rise. Michael Peters studied International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He teaches International Relations and works on the editorial and publicity teams of the Economic and Labour Relations Review.