From Alliance to Acquaintance: The Australian-American Security Relationship

Abstract

This thesis explores the development of Australian concepts of national security, in the context of traditional and continuing psychological dependency upon its links of alliance to the West. The Government claims that Australia's policy of defence self-reliance within an alliance framework is a conceptual watershed 'conceptual watershed' that has 'liberated' Australian foreign policy; but it is an old theme in defence policy. Australia still awaits a real revolution in its security concepts and sense of regional and world identity. ANZUS, symbol of Australia's ties to the western community, and the false impressions and expectations it creates, now acts more to inhibit than to assist Australia's future growth as a nation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA247337

Entities

People

  • Mark J. Taylor

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Employment
  • Foreign Relations
  • Geography
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Health Services
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Medical Personnel
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Systems
  • Prejudice
  • Psychology
  • Recreation
  • Terrain
  • Treaties

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Systems Analysis and Design