Australia's relationship with the United States: the case for greater independence

Beeson, Mark

doi:10.1080/1036114032000133958

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“…Australia's participation in Iraq and its willingness to offer an open-ended commitment to future US-led military actions inevitably has important political and economic consequences. Any country that locks itself into a position of strategic dependence in the way that Australia has done must sacrifice some degree of autonomy to do so, no matter what the supposed benefits may be in terms of possible security guarantees and intelligence-sharing (Beeson 2003). …”

Section: Australia: the 'Utterly Dependable' Allymentioning

confidence: 98%

Invasion by invitation: the role of alliances in the Asia-Pacific

Beeson¹

2015

Australian Journal of International Affairs

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Section: Australia: the 'Utterly Dependable' Allymentioning

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Invasion by invitation: the role of alliances in the Asia-Pacific

Beeson¹

2015

Australian Journal of International Affairs

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“…78 Nor are such initiatives confined to the Southeast Asian corner of the Asia-Pacific: Australia has self-consciously wedded its high profile support for, and participation in, American-led military activities, to a concerted push for a bilateral free trade agreement. 79 The very different attitude that the US displays toward New Zealand, which has adopted a more independent position toward American security policy, confirms that the US is self-consciously linking economic and strategic issues as part of its post-S11 approach to foreign policy. 80 Thus, by accident or design, directly or indirectly, American power is inevitably shaping the strategic and economic architecture of the broadly conceived Asia-Pacific region.…”

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Does Hegemony Still Matter? Revisiting Regime Formation in the Asia-Pacific

2019

Rivalry and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific

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The Pacific political economy is in the midst of significant structural and institutional change. Over the past four decades the distribution of political and economic capabilities has shifted from a pattern that reflected American hegemonic presence toward a more complex balance of power. Economic and security issues have become more separate, reducing the nesting of these two issue-areas. Furthermore, an institutional basis for handling the regional political economy on a multilateral basis is rapidly being developed, with the result that the prior predominance of bilateral negotiations is eroding. Collectively, these changes constitute a substantial reorganization of the Pacific political economy. 2 59 Ravenhill, ibid, p 309. 60 Dent, Christopher M. (2003) 'Networking the region? The emergence and impact of Asia-Pacific bilateral free trade agreement projects',

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“…This reflected widespread wariness among Australian farmers, manufacturers, and owners of intellectual property that trade negotiations with the world's largest economy and most powerful government could proceed on fair and, still less, equal terms. Moreover, there was a consciousness that, by 2003, Australia was one of a small group of economies running a trade deficit with the United States (Beeson, 2003, 391).…”

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Geographical Takes on Three Decades of Economic Reform in Australia

O’Neill

Fagan

2006

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The idea of an economy taking a geographical journey highlights the importance of changing spatialities and how these shape and result from economic change. It also focuses on the geographical scaling of key processes. Using these insights, this paper explores three decades of economic change in Australia in which the nation State has played a central role in the operation of markets and accumulation processes, albeit with dramatic shifts in the qualitative nature of that role. Such shifts have been crucial during the emergence of Australia's particular variety of neoliberalism. The paper explores the liberalisation of Australia's financial and corporate environment, trade policies and the industrial relations environment. The three cases suggest contradictions inherent in the State's adherence to a neoliberal reform agenda, in the name of globalisation, while facing: first, political needs to retain sovereignty over national security and tighten border protection; and second, multi‐scaled political processes including clashes with State governments grappling with regional and local impacts of change. There has been no simple roll‐out of neoliberalism in Australia since the mid 1990s. Geographical scales, constructed contingently by social and political agents, have contributed in fundamental ways to the power and direction of economic reform. Despite powerful re‐scalings to both global and local levels over the past three decades, there is no evidence of a diminished role for the nation State.

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Australia's relationship with the United States: the case for greater independence

Abstract: A number of recent events -especially attempts to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement and Australia's participation in the conflict with Iraq 1

Cited by 22 publications

References 38 publications

Invasion by invitation: the role of alliances in the Asia-Pacific

Invasion by invitation: the role of alliances in the Asia-Pacific

Does Hegemony Still Matter? Revisiting Regime Formation in the Asia-Pacific

Geographical Takes on Three Decades of Economic Reform in Australia

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