Winning the Peace: Australia's Campaign to Change the Asia-Pacific

Issues in Australian Foreign Policy January to June 2016

“…While the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister have an important role, the burden will particularly fall upon Australia's Ambassador to the US and the Congressional Liaison Office, which serves as Australia's "own in-house lobbying firm" in Washington D.C. 75 It was risky but wise of the Howard government to embrace PTAs in the early 2000s. 76 It will be up to Howard's successors to be equally bold. Ultimately this is not just a question of the access to Resources.…”

An Indo-Pacific norm entrepreneur? Australia and defence diplomacy

“…Such a task is seen as a practical means to induce orderly cultural change and information dissemination -an effort to reduce the chance of collective a geo-political setting that invokes ideas about the relationship between military power, political objectives and security constructions. As such, while a fuller exploration of the norm entrepreneurship model can be found elsewhere (Carr, 2015), this article predominately aims to identify a middle-power experience whereby Australia has set itself a series of norm-based and co-optive tasks. We wish to bring attention to this case as a way to inform future theory building as well as policy practice.…”

Australian Foreign Policy in Asia

“…Friends, colleagues and students (the categories are not mutually exclusive) have been wonderfully generous in discussing ideas with me down the years. Sadly, some have passed away and it is likely that those remaining will have long forgotten our conversations -Andrew Carr (2015) This book focuses on the middle power concept in International Relations (IR) to demonstrate how an outmoded version of middle power imagining is undermining Australian foreign policy making in Asia. It proposes that there are three possible ways of thinking about middle powers: (i) as dependent middle powers, (ii) as regional middle powers, and (iii) middle powers as global citizens.…”