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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809196503321

Autore

Vandenbosch Amry <1894->

Titolo

Australia faces Southeast Asia : the emergence of a foreign policy / / Amry & Mary Belle Vandenbosch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University of Kentucky Press, , 1967

©1967

ISBN

0-8131-8223-9

0-8131-6493-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Disciplina

327.59/094

Soggetti

Australia Foreign relations Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia Foreign relations Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; PREFACE; Contents; 1. Postwar Reappraisal of External Policy; 2. Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy; 3. Herbert Vere Evatt and Labor Nationalism; 4. Indonesian ""Confrontation""-West New Guinea; 5. Indonesian ""Confrontation""-Malaysia; 6. Peril to the North-Vietnam; 7. An Emerging Policy; 8. Australia's Future in Asia; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; L; M; N; P; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Australia as a Western society in the Orient faces a unique and paradoxical challenge in her relations with her close but unfamiliar neighbors of Southeast Asia. Explicitly dependent upon British foreign policy until the fall of Singapore in 1942, Australia has reluctantly and painfully begun the task of developing a policy of her own.The Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia and many of the Pacific islands during the Second World War awakened Australia to the need to secure her own defenses and later, when Britain began a gradual withdrawal from Southeast Asia, Australia was thrown upon her own