Issues in Australian Foreign Policy

Beeson, Mark

doi:10.1111/ajph.12059

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“…Other disasters have also had an adverse impact on this region including plane crashes, building collapses, and contamination from toxic chemical spills. Aside from disasters, the Asia-Pacific region is susceptible to other difficulties including climaterelated health problems (Woodward, Hales, & Weinstein, 1998), food inequities (Friel & Baker, 2009), and fragile political development (Beeson, 2002). This region is one of the most affected by natural disasters.…”

Section: Adversity In the Asia Pacific Region: Challenges Facing Healmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adversity in the Asia Pacific Region: Challenges Facing Health and Society

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Gardner

Doyle

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Journal of Loss and Trauma

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Section: Adversity In the Asia Pacific Region: Challenges Facing Healmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adversity in the Asia Pacific Region: Challenges Facing Health and Society

Terte

Gardner

Doyle

et al. 2018

Journal of Loss and Trauma

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“…The matter of how to deal with asylum-seekers also continued to trouble Canberra. Specifically, because hardly any asylum-seekers have arrived since the tough boat-turnback policy began in October 2013, 87 the current problem is how to clear the offshore detention facilities of those who arrived by boat before then. The critical reports from domestic and international refugee advocacy and human rights organisations are too numerous to mention, save one; Australia had been elected to the UN's Human Rights Council in late 2017, but immediately after Canberra took up its seat in March 2018 the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture released a report which adversely named Australia.…”

Section: Indo-pacific Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Issues in Australian Foreign Policy

Bloomfield

2018

Aus J of Politics History

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“…These preferences for bilateral over multilateral arrangements reflected a deeper conservative skepticism concerning the efficacy and legitimacy of multilateral cooperation initiatives, both at the global and regional levels. 7 Underpinning its regionalist and bilateral dispositions, the Abbott government finally embraced a transactional rather than transformative approach to diplomacy. With the memory of the Rudd government's abortive Asia-Pacific community initiative still fresh in mind, the government repudiated the pursuit of "big picture" architectural solutions to regional and global governance challenges.…”

Section: Deals Not Ideals -The Abbott Government's Foreign Policy DImentioning

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Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 2014

Phillips

2015

Aus J of Politics History

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The Abbott government confronted an increasingly contested and complex international environment in the second half of 2014. The period opened with the MH17 air disaster in Ukraine on 17 July. This tragedy saw the loss of thirty-eight Australian citizens and residents, terribly dramatizing the global reach of resurgent Great Power rivalry in post-Soviet Eurasia. Regionally, the government meanwhile pursued a strategy of bulked-up bilateralism, inking a host of trade and security deals in an environment marked by more open contestation between the Indo-Pacific's established and emerging powers. Transnational security challenges, finally, dominated a growing proportion of the government's attention. This was clearest in the Commonwealth's conspicuous participation in the struggle against ISIS, and in renewed attention to the "home-grown" jihadist threat following "lone wolf" attacks in Melbourne and Sydney in September and December 2014.Against this backdrop of growing international volatility, the Commonwealth was unusually active in its efforts to shape the evolving international order. This survey mainly privileges the Abbott government's security diplomacy for the period under review. My goal is to examine how successive crises in an increasingly turbulent global security environment reshaped the Abbott government's grand strategy, forcing some significant (if perhaps temporary) shifts in its approach to foreign affairs. By disposition regionalist, bilateral, and transactional in its foreign policy orientation, the Abbott government was in recent months compelled to incorporate a more globalist and multilateral component to its grand strategy. Simultaneously, the anti-ISIS struggle tempered the government's preferred stress on interests rather than values as the lodestar of its foreign policy, the moral imperative of fighting the ISIS "death cult" committing Australia to a potentially open-ended military commitment in Iraq.The following analysis proceeds in four sections. Section one introduces the Abbott government's preferred foreign policy style. In contrast to its Labor predecessor, the Abbott government has preferred a foreign policy approach stressing regionalism over globalism, and bilateralism over multilateralism. Likewise, the government has selfconsciously favored a transactional rather than transformational foreign policy style. That is, it has preferred to anchor its diplomacy in appeals to states' material interests, as opposed to favoring more idealistic and transformative "big picture" solutions to international challenges. I thank Ryan Smith for his invaluable research assistance in the preparation of this article. I also thank Melissa Curley for her suggestions on an earlier draft, which have significantly improved this manuscript.

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Issues in Australian Foreign Policy

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Adversity in the Asia Pacific Region: Challenges Facing Health and Society

Adversity in the Asia Pacific Region: Challenges Facing Health and Society

Issues in Australian Foreign Policy

Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 2014

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