This book examines the nature of Australia's emerging militarism and its implications for the future of this country and our neighbours. It argues that Australia's forces should confine themselves to the defence of this continent and its maritime resource zone. It urges a cooperative approach to regional security which would use dialogue, negotiation and conflict resolution as tools for resolvi…
This book exemplifies biography in its fullest sense. Sir John Monash was one of Australia's greatest men and probably the greatest of its soldiers, but this book is much more than a military study. Monash was a graduate of the University of Melbourne in three Faculties - Arts, Law and Engineering; he was a man of wide-ranging intellect, especially devoted to literature, music, theatre, languag…
Joel Kotkin reveals the shared traits that have helped certain dispersed ethnic groups-among them the Jews, British, Japanese, Indians, and Chinese-to triumph in the international arenas of business, technology, and communications. Kotkin shows how the end of the Cold War and the erosion of national trade barriers have made the impact of these "global tribes" greater than ever, and he offers st…
I had wanted to write a book about Australia in the twenty first century so as to write about the Australia I liked, or perhaps wanted. I hoped, too, that Australia would be more successful in the next century than it had managed to be in this one. The twentieth century had been America's, not just in the sense that the United States became a dominanta power during it but because the style of t…
For the purpose of this inquiry the 'Third World' is taken to consist of all the countries of South and South East Asia; the countries of Africa which are not under white rule; all the countries of the Middle East and West Asia, except Turkey; all the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean; the new states of the Pacific and the Koreas. These countries, which number 119, are listed in Appe…
In the five years since the first edition of THE THIRD WORLD appeared in 1978, many important changes have been reflected in the Third World itself and also in Third World relations with the developed countries. This period has witnessed, in addition to a number of regional conflicts, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the fall of the Shah in Iran and the subsequent rise of Islamic fundamental…
For the national interest, Australia issues a foreign and trade policy which contains national interests which include security, economy and values. In addition, there are policies to face the new century and shape the future of Australia.
This survey began some years ago and two reports set out the views of earlier Committees: Australia's relations with the South Pacific, tabled on 13 April 1989, and Australia's relations with Papua New Guinea, tabled on 19 December 1991.This inquiry had its origins in concerns about illegal fishing off the north and north west coast of Australia, but the terms of reference actually adopted were…
Living with Dragons is a dispatch from the front-line of Australia's engagement with Asia. It reveals for the first time just what a transforming and pervasive development the 'Asianisation' of Australian life is. Living with Dragons tackles all the hard questions. Australian identity, human rights, economic policy, the environment, defence and security, culture, the business challenge, languag…
In this indictment of the president and his inner circle, David Corn reveals and examines the deceptions at the heart of the Bush presidency. He details and substantiates the many times the Bush administration has knowingly and intentionally misled the American public to advance its own interests and agenda." "The Lies of George W. Bush is not a partisan whine - it is instead a carefully constr…