Fear of security
Subtitle: Australia's invasion anxiety
By: Anthony Burke.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780521714273
Subjects: National security -- Australia; Australia -- Foreign relations -- Asia; Asia -- Foreign relations -- Australia
Work titles: In fear of security
Description: "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.
Notes: Originally published: In fear of security. Annandale, N.S.W. : Pluto Press, 2001. In series, Media.culture series, 1443-8712.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Securing the Australian subject, 1788-1918; title: Dreams of Pacific security, 1919-45; title: Cold War against the other, 1946-69; title: Realpolitik beyond the Cold War, 1970-95; title: Australia's Asian crisis, 1996-2000; title: The wages of terror, 2001-07.