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Fear of security :

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9780511720543 (ebook)

Erroneous ISBN

9780521714273 (paperback)

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b504234

Title Proper

Fear of security :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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Australia's invasion anxiety /

First Statement of Responsibility

Anthony Burke.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) :

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digital, PDF file(s)

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Securing the Australian subject, 1788-1918 -- Dreams of Pacific security, 1919-45 -- Cold War against the other, 1946-69 -- Realpolitik beyond the Cold War, 1970-95 -- Australia's Asian crisis, 1996-2000 -- The wages of terror, 2001-07.

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Rarely has security been such a preoccupation of Australian politics, and rarely has it seemed so far from being achieved. This celebrated book argues that security has dominated and distorted Australia's foreign policy and national life, from Cook's first voyage to the Tampa crisis, 9/11 and Iraq. Whether in the Great War, Vietnam or the treatment of asylum seekers, Anthony Burke shows that Australia's security has been bought with the insecurity and suffering of others. Against this corrosive tradition, he offers a new - cosmopolitan and non-coercive - model of national existence and responsibility. At once a deep historical survey and an argument with its society, Fear of Security is a landmark account of how Australia relates to itself, its region and the world. Turning powerful academic and political orthodoxies on their heads, it is essential reading for those concerned with the burning questions that face Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

General Material Designation

In fear of security.

National security-- Australia.

Asia, Foreign relations, Australia.

Australia, Foreign relations, Asia.

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Burke, Anthony,1966-

Date of Transaction

20151005020621.0

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