Comprehensive Engagement and Crisis Management: Assessing Australia's Southeast Asian Strategy

Abstract

The author examines Australia's relationship with its Southeast Asian neighbors. As a European country with a geographic appendage to this region, Australia's relationship with other countries was defined by unpopular policies or within the context of its 'great and powerful friends,' Britain and the United States. However, since withdrawal of British forces and failure of U.S.- led strategies of military intervention in Vietnam, Australia has been forced to come to terms with its geographic realities. Although it remains predominantly an Anglo-Saxon country, Australia is increasingly multicultural, and links to Southeast Asia are growing rapidly. Southeast Asian region, Multicultural, Foreign and domestic defense policies, ANZUS Treaty, Australia

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 08, 1993
Accession Number
ADA267470

Entities

People

  • Thomas-Durell Young

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asia
  • Cold War
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Crisis Management
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • International Organizations
  • Maritime Security
  • National Security
  • Radar
  • Regional Security
  • Southeast Asia
  • Surveillance
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design