Fear of abandonment : Australia in the world since 1942

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Fear of abandonment : Australia in the world since 1942

Title remainder

Australia in the world since 1942

Statement of responsibility

Allan Gyngell

Creator

• trueGyngell, Allan

Author

• trueGyngell, Allan

Subject

• Australia -- Foreign relations -- 21st century
• Australia -- Foreign relations administration | History
• trueAustralian
• trueCooperation
• trueAustralia -- Foreign relations
• trueInternational relations
• International relations -- Australia
• trueStrategic alliances (Military)
• trueDiplomacy
• trueAustralia -- Foreign relations -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

Everything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand the world outside and to respond effectively to it. In Fear of Abandonment, expert and insider Allan Gyngell tells the story of how Australia has shaped the world and been shaped by it since it established an independent foreign policy during the dangerous days of 1942. Gyngell argues that the fear of being abandoned - originally by Britain, and later by our most powerful ally, the United States - has been an important driver of how Australia acts in the world. Spanning events as diverse as the Malayan Emergency, the White Australia Policy, the Vietnam War, Whitlam in China, apartheid in South Africa, East Timorese independence and the current South China Sea dispute, this vivid narrative history reveals how Australia has evolved as a nation on the world stage. Fear of Abandonment is a gripping and authoritative account of the way Australians and their governments have helped create the world we now inhabit in the twenty-first century. In revealing the history of Australian foreign affairs, it lays the foundation for understanding the challenges for the future -- Publisher

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

327.94

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult