Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figure
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Setting the Scene
- Part II Relationships
- 4 Australia’s Relations with South Asia
- 5 Australia and Japan1
- 6 Peripheral Relations: Australia and Latin America
- 7 Australia and China: Divergence and Convergence of Interests1
- 8 Australia and Europe
- 9 Reassessing Australia’s Role in Papua New Guinea and the Island Pacific1
- 10 Australia and the United States
- Part III Issues
- References
- Index
10 - Australia and the United States
from Part II - Relationships
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figure
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Setting the Scene
- Part II Relationships
- 4 Australia’s Relations with South Asia
- 5 Australia and Japan1
- 6 Peripheral Relations: Australia and Latin America
- 7 Australia and China: Divergence and Convergence of Interests1
- 8 Australia and Europe
- 9 Reassessing Australia’s Role in Papua New Guinea and the Island Pacific1
- 10 Australia and the United States
- Part III Issues
- References
- Index
Summary
Key developments that began to affect international politics in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War – globalisation, humanitarian intervention at odds with previously unquestioned prerogatives of state sovereignty, and the development of multilateral institutions to manage emerging security and economic challenges – gained further momentum in the late 1990s. Paradoxically, the Australian–US relationship was both reaffirmed and tested in some very traditional ways over this period. The Howard government was elected in March 1996 with a pledge to ’reinvigorate’ that relationship, which it felt had been neglected by its Labor predecessors.
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- Australia in World Affairs 1996–2000The National Interest in a Global Era, pp. 119 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressFirst published in: 2024