Title: Fear of security : Australia's invasion anxiety /
Authors: Burke, Anthony, 1966-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: National security Australia; Australia Foreign relations Asia.; Asia Foreign relations Australia.
Abstract: "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 Cooks 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."--Publisher.
Contents: 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.