Continent adrift?: Dissident security discourse and the Australian geopolitical imagination

Australian-American relations in the new century: applying resuscitation or pursuing illusions?

“…International relations theorists have recently focused on how perceptions of 'otherness' complicate politico-security issues between people and states (Wendt 1999;Campbell 1998). Various analysts concerned about Australia's regional security identity have referred to these perceptions in advocating a 'reconstruction' of Australia's 'profile' to one more compatible with Asian cultures (Fitzgerald 1997;Dalby 1996). Other observers note that post-Cold War security politics have led to Australia becoming a 'torn country', caught between western and Asian civilizations.…”

Beyond an energy deal: Impacts of the Sino-Australia uranium agreement

“…This debate has been reignited by the recent signing of the Sino-Australia Uranium Agreement (SAUA) on 29 April 2006 under which Australian producers will be able to export 20,000 tonnes of uranium to China annually for power generation. This debate has covered a wide range of political, social, economic, health and environmental Australia has periodically felt an acute sense of threat from the north (Dalby, 1996;Dibb, 2006). Although Australia has also forged independent ties in the region, this threat has been at least partly mitigated by an alliance with the US, the 1951 ANZUS Treaty.…”

Cartographies of the Colonial/Capitalist State: A Geopolitics of Indigenous Self‐Determination in Australia

“…2 In terms of both geopolitical rhetoric and the material political economic circumstances they inscribe, many of these continuing policy directions of the Australian state have been problematic to say the least (see for example, Dixon and Drakakis-Smith, 1995;Herr, 1984). The concurrent northward vision towards "Asian tiger" nations as both "potential market" and geopolitical "threat" (the latter a discourse that harks beyond the days of "White Australia" policies to the Chinese participation in the Australian gold rush) reveals some of the dilemmas of contemporary Australian nationhood (Dalby, 1996a(Dalby, , 1996b. More specifically, the later security "hang-overs" of the Cold War, expressed in international war game exercises and the construction of U.S. and Australian military bases, have occurred in (strategic) remote areas where indigenous claims and environmental concerns have also been most fierce-areas such as Cape York in far north Queensland, and the Katherine region of the Northern Territory.…”