2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2009.1520a.x
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The Rich Tradition of Australian Realism

Abstract: Australian International Relations (IR) developed as a discipline at the same time as its emergence in the rest of the Anglophone world. A deep reading of Australian writing on international relations since the 1920s reveals a distinctive tradition of IR scholarship, shaped very much by this country's international circumstances and the pragmatic culture of political inquiry that pervaded its universities and diplomatic institutions. Three characteristics frame the Australian Realist outlook. The first is expe… Show more

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“…Australian foreign policy is driven by interrelated concerns over material power, national security, and the broad cultural values that given these national projects a specif ic shape. Thus, while a realist world view is widely accepted as the dominant perspective in Australian foreign policy thinking (Wesley 2009), it is clear when reviewing the stages in Australia's global engagement that a given approach cannot be neatly defined. Instead, Australia's evolving identity and sense of place influences, and is influenced by, concep tions of the national interest and strategic priorities.…”
Section: Perspectives On Australian Foreign Policymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Australian foreign policy is driven by interrelated concerns over material power, national security, and the broad cultural values that given these national projects a specif ic shape. Thus, while a realist world view is widely accepted as the dominant perspective in Australian foreign policy thinking (Wesley 2009), it is clear when reviewing the stages in Australia's global engagement that a given approach cannot be neatly defined. Instead, Australia's evolving identity and sense of place influences, and is influenced by, concep tions of the national interest and strategic priorities.…”
Section: Perspectives On Australian Foreign Policymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Notably, the ideals of the White Australia policy also encompassed Australia's own Indigenous communities, which, as the subjects of a range of deeply dis criminatory structural and cultural policy barriers, became invisible within their own country. Memories of a 'white Australia', though faded, continue to haunt Australia's un derstanding of its own story and its engagement within the Asia-Pacific region (Wesley 2009), rising up on occasion in rebuke of perceived Australian diplomatic insensitivity or as an occasional reminder of Australia's ill fit within the neighbourhood.…”
Section: Anxious Outpost (1901-1942)mentioning
confidence: 99%