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
14 - Defence and Security
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
At the start of 2006, two schools of thought contended over the future of Australia’s defence and strategic policy. On one side stood those who believed that Australia’s principal strategic risks and challenges over the following decades would come from instability on the margins of the international order – from weak and failing states, and from non-state actors, especially terrorists. On the other side stood those who believed that bigger and more important strategic concerns arose from the possibility that the core of the international order would be disrupted by the stresses flowing from changing economic relativities. This was especially true in Asia, as China and other Asian states’ economies grew.
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- Australia in World Affairs 2006–2010Middle Power Dreaming, pp. 211 - 225Publisher: Cambridge University PressFirst published in: 2024