Australia faces Southeast Asia : the emergence of a foreign policy / Amry & Mary Belle Vandenbosch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vandenbosch, Amry, 1894- author.

Vandenbosch, Mary Bell, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australia--Foreign relations--Southeast Asia.

Australia.

Southeast Asia--Foreign relations--Australia.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University of Kentucky Press, 1967.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Australia as a Western society in the Orient faces a unique and paradoxical challenge in her relations with her close but unfamiliar neighbors of Southeast Asia. Explicitly dependent upon British foreign policy until the fall of Singapore in 1942, Australia has reluctantly and painfully begun the task of developing a policy of her own.The Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia and many of the Pacific islands during the Second World War awakened Australia to the need to secure her own defenses and later, when Britain began a gradual withdrawal from Southeast Asia, Australia was thrown upon her own

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; PREFACE; Contents; 1. Postwar Reappraisal of External Policy; 2. Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy; 3. Herbert Vere Evatt and Labor Nationalism; 4. Indonesian ""Confrontation""-West New Guinea; 5. Indonesian ""Confrontation""-Malaysia; 6. Peril to the North-Vietnam; 7. An Emerging Policy; 8. Australia's Future in Asia; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; L; M; N; P; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813182230

0813182239

9780813164939

0813164931

OCLC:

933516054