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Australia and Seato1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

George Modelski
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Australia is a nation small and vulnerable enough to need great power guarantees of territorial integrity, yet at the same time strong and stable enough to constitute an asset in any joint undertaking. The quality of being a small power dependent on the support of the great powers Australia shares with the countries of Southeast Asia, and in particular with the Southeast Asian states linked up with the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO). But it is less exposed to immediate dangers, is more modern and industrialized than its near-northern neighbors, and hence is also capable of serving as an independent source of strength and of assuming a role somewhat akin to that of the great powers in SEATO. Australia's membership role in SEATO is, in effect, defined by these two basic conditions.

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International Organization , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , Summer 1960 , pp. 429 - 437
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1960

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10 Nearly $12 million was appropriated for the financial year 1959–1960. Demands urging an expansion of aid to Southeast Asia have recently been heard.

11 In the 1959 Australian-sponsored SEATO exercise “Sea Demon,” however, the “Melbourne's” engines broke down and for a time she had to withdraw from action.

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