Book contents
- The Long Search for Peace
- The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations
- The Long Search for Peace
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Glossary
- Part 1 Actor and observer
- Part 2 New ambitions
- 16 The new internationalists
- 17 A ‘lop-sided’ umpire
- 18 Snow Goose and the Milk Run
- 19 An island divided
- 20 Desert sortie
- 21 On the Golan
- 22 Witnesses to civil war
- 23 Fumbling the political football
- 24 The tribe that lost its head
- 25 Into Africa
- 26 A dangerous but crucial mission
- 27 The healing touch
- 28 ‘The only show in town’
- Part 3 Carrying on
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
16 - The new internationalists
Peacekeeping after the Vietnam War, 1972–87
from Part 2 - New ambitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2019
- The Long Search for Peace
- The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations
- The Long Search for Peace
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Glossary
- Part 1 Actor and observer
- Part 2 New ambitions
- 16 The new internationalists
- 17 A ‘lop-sided’ umpire
- 18 Snow Goose and the Milk Run
- 19 An island divided
- 20 Desert sortie
- 21 On the Golan
- 22 Witnesses to civil war
- 23 Fumbling the political football
- 24 The tribe that lost its head
- 25 Into Africa
- 26 A dangerous but crucial mission
- 27 The healing touch
- 28 ‘The only show in town’
- Part 3 Carrying on
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
The election of the Labor government led by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in December 1972 marked a major change in Australia’s approach to international peacekeeping. To a large extent, the change grew out of the philosophy of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). A self-declared ‘internationalist’ party, in government it was far more willing than its conservative predecessors to look to the United Nations to help solve world problems, and hence it was keen for Australia to play its part in international peacekeeping missions. This approach was championed by Whitlam, who was also Minister for Foreign Affairs in the first year of his government.
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- The Long Search for PeaceObserver Missions and Beyond, 1947–2006, pp. 395 - 423Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019