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
6 - Peripheral Relations: Australia and Latin America
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
Over the last quarter-century, the relations between Australia and Latin America, while not intense, clearly have thickened and deepened. And the pace of this thickening and deepening is quickening. The most obvious manifestation is in the economic realm, in trade and investment. But our research indicates that in more obscure areas, such as cultural exchange, education, and environmental issues, much is happening and there is every reason to expect that the contact will expand. That said, any informed observer of Australia’s relations with Latin America would be struck by how little each knows about the other, how recent and relatively superficial the contacts are, and consequently how tenuous they could remain unless both the Australians and the Latin Americans invest further substantial effort. This effort cannot be limited to the material – trade and investment – but must include education at all levels to overcome the barriers of language and culture, of limited transport, of competing economies, of stereotypes.
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- Australia in World Affairs 1996–2000The National Interest in a Global Era, pp. 65 - 76Publisher: Cambridge University PressFirst published in: 2024