Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables, Figures and Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Middle Power Dreaming: Australian Foreign Policy during the Rudd–Gillard Governments
- 2 The Howard–Downer Legacy: Global Deputy, Regional Sheriff
- 3 Back from the Brink: Australia and the Global Economy 2006–10
- 4 Australia–America 2006–2010: Waiting for Obama
- 5 Australia and China: The Challenges to Forging a ‘True Friendship’
- 6 Australia and Japan: Mobilising the Bilateral Relationship
- 7 Australia and Europe
- 8 Australia’s Strategic and Commercial Engagement with South Asia under Kevin Rudd: The Paradoxes
- 9 Australia, the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste
- 10 Progress and Limits in Regional Cooperation: Australia and Southeast Asia
- 11 Australian Foreign Policy towards Africa
- 12 Plus Ça Change? The Coalition, Labor and the Challenges of Environmental Foreign Policy
- 13 The Australia 2020 Summit as an Experiment in Foreign Policy-making
- 14 Defence and Security
- 15 Australia’s Foreign Policy Machinery
- 16 Regional, Alliance and Global Priorities of the Rudd–Gillard Governments
- References
- Index
7 - Australia and Europe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables, Figures and Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Middle Power Dreaming: Australian Foreign Policy during the Rudd–Gillard Governments
- 2 The Howard–Downer Legacy: Global Deputy, Regional Sheriff
- 3 Back from the Brink: Australia and the Global Economy 2006–10
- 4 Australia–America 2006–2010: Waiting for Obama
- 5 Australia and China: The Challenges to Forging a ‘True Friendship’
- 6 Australia and Japan: Mobilising the Bilateral Relationship
- 7 Australia and Europe
- 8 Australia’s Strategic and Commercial Engagement with South Asia under Kevin Rudd: The Paradoxes
- 9 Australia, the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste
- 10 Progress and Limits in Regional Cooperation: Australia and Southeast Asia
- 11 Australian Foreign Policy towards Africa
- 12 Plus Ça Change? The Coalition, Labor and the Challenges of Environmental Foreign Policy
- 13 The Australia 2020 Summit as an Experiment in Foreign Policy-making
- 14 Defence and Security
- 15 Australia’s Foreign Policy Machinery
- 16 Regional, Alliance and Global Priorities of the Rudd–Gillard Governments
- References
- Index
Summary
The period 2006 to 2010 witnessed a renewed Australian interest in and engagement with Europe following decades of relative neglect. Australia’s close trade, foreign and security policy relationships with Asia and the United States, coupled with a European Union (EU) agricultural policy inimical to Australia’s trade interests, were major determinants of Australia’s neglect of Europe from the 1970s to the early years of the twenty-first century. A vision of Europe as protectionist, unfriendly to trade, inwardlooking and bureaucratic developed in Australia throughout the closing decades of the twentieth century. This in turn fostered a certain lack of interest in and attention to the European integration process and its increasing global importance. Within the EU Commission, Australia was regarded for much of the past 40 years as interested only in agriculture. For the greater part of this period also, the close traditional, cultural, trade and foreign and security policy ties with the United Kingdom remained Australia’s sole broadly based and close link with Europe.
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- Australia in World Affairs 2006–2010Middle Power Dreaming, pp. 96 - 111Publisher: Cambridge University PressFirst published in: 2024