Difficult Partners: Indo‐Australian Relations at the Height of the Cold War, 1949–1964

Benvenuti, Andrea

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8497.2011.01582.x

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From Cold War Solidarity to Transactional Engagement: Reinterpreting Australia's Relations with East Asia, 1950–1974

Halvorson

2016

Journal of Cold War Studies

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This article challenges the position that genuine and substantive Australian engagement with Asia began only in the 1980s during the final phase of the Cold War. In reality, the deepest points of Australia's political and security engagement occurred much earlier, from 1950 to 1971, with the most intense phase from 1966 to 1968. The Cold War instilled a sense of solidarity with the non-Communist states of East Asia, with which Australia fostered and mostly enjoyed close relationships. These relationships were grounded in shared values and a non-Communist identity that transcended the narrow security interest of Australia's “forward defence” strategy. The conditions for this solidarity were eroded from 1967 to 1972 by a series of compounding factors that transformed Cold War geopolitics in East Asia. By 1974, Australia had been politically distanced from the region with its engagement premised on a broadening but shallower transactional basis.

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From Cold War Solidarity to Transactional Engagement: Reinterpreting Australia's Relations with East Asia, 1950–1974

Halvorson

2016

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Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity: Australia in Asia, 1944–74

Halvorson¹

2019

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Australia has pursued successive strategies of engagement with Asia under both Australian Labor Party (ALP) and Liberal-National Party (Coalition) governments since the mid-1980s. These have ranged from the Hawke-Keating (1983-96) era policies of 'enmeshment' and 'comprehensive engagement' to the Howard Government's (1996-2007) 'practical regionalism', to Kevin Rudd's 2008 initiative for an Asia-Pacific Community. In October 2012, the Gillard Government's (2010-13) Australia in the Asian Century White Paper continued to emphasise the pursuit of deeper and broader engagement across the economic, sociopolitical and security spheres. 1 Coalition Prime Minister Tony Abbott (2013-15) said in 2013 that foreign policy under his government would be '"more Jakarta, less Geneva"'. 2 In 2017, the Turnbull Coalition Government's (2015-18) Foreign Policy White Paper embraced the 'Indo-Pacific' strategic concept as defining the scope of Australia's economic and security engagement with Asia. 3 There is no doubt that these strategies of engagement have resulted in successful economic outcomes. Trade with the Asian region as a percentage of Australia's total trade increased from 38.

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Difficult Partners: Indo‐Australian Relations at the Height of the Cold War, 1949–1964

Cited by 2 publications

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From Cold War Solidarity to Transactional Engagement: Reinterpreting Australia's Relations with East Asia, 1950–1974

From Cold War Solidarity to Transactional Engagement: Reinterpreting Australia's Relations with East Asia, 1950–1974

Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity: Australia in Asia, 1944–74

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