Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 The Foreign Policy Scene
- Part 2 Relationships
- 2 Extreme Allies: Australia and the USA
- 3 Rebuilding Engagement: Australia and South-East Asia
- 4 Australia and Japan: Challenges and Opportunities
- 5 Australia and China: Towards a Strategic Partnership?
- 6 Australia, Britain, and the European Union
- 7 Australia and Fragile States in the Pacific
- 8 Perfect Strangers: Australia and West Asia
- Part 3 Issues
- Part 4 Foreign Policy in the Political Process
- Survey Sources
- References
- Index
2 - Extreme Allies: Australia and the USA
from Part 2 - Relationships
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 The Foreign Policy Scene
- Part 2 Relationships
- 2 Extreme Allies: Australia and the USA
- 3 Rebuilding Engagement: Australia and South-East Asia
- 4 Australia and Japan: Challenges and Opportunities
- 5 Australia and China: Towards a Strategic Partnership?
- 6 Australia, Britain, and the European Union
- 7 Australia and Fragile States in the Pacific
- 8 Perfect Strangers: Australia and West Asia
- Part 3 Issues
- Part 4 Foreign Policy in the Political Process
- Survey Sources
- References
- Index
Summary
The dramatic impact of the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington sharply intensified relations between Australia and the USA. The bilateral relationship was reconfirmed as the two states joined in war against an elusive, and unexpected, enemy. As the war on terrorism broadened, Australia enthusiastically joined the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’, sending troops to fight in Afghanistan and, more controversially, deploying forces alongside the USA in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. From late 2001 commentary in Australia invariably accepted that ‘relations with the United States dominated Australian foreign affairs’ or more subtly observed that ‘the central dynamics of Australian foreign policy revolved around the issue of relations with the superpower, and the implications of this relationship’ for the broader exercise of Australian foreign policy.
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- Australia in World Affairs 2001–2005Trading on Alliance Security, pp. 19 - 44Publisher: Cambridge University PressFirst published in: 2024