Australias Own Cold War

Download Australias Own Cold War full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Australias Own Cold War ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Fighting Australia’s Cold War

Author : Peter Dean
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 176046483X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fighting Australia’s Cold War by : Peter Dean

Download or read book Fighting Australia’s Cold War written by Peter Dean and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first two decades of the Cold War, Australia fought in three conflicts and prepared to fight in a possible wider conflagration in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In Korea, Malaya and Borneo, Australian forces encountered new types of warfare, integrated new equipment and ideas, and were part of the longest continual overseas deployments in Australia’s history. Working closely with its allies, Australia also trained for a large conventional war in Southeast Asia, while a significant percentage of the defence force guarded the Papua New Guinea–Indonesian border. At home, the Defence organisation grappled with new threats and military expansion, while the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation defended the nation from domestic and foreign threats. This book examines this crucial part of Australia’s security history, so often overlooked as merely a precursor to the Vietnam War. It addresses key questions such as how did Australia achieve its security goals at home and in the region in this new Cold War environment? What were the experiences of the services, units and individuals serving in Southeast Asia? How did this period shape Australia’s defence for years to come?

A Concise History of Australia

Author : Stuart Macintyre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107562430
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Concise History of Australia by : Stuart Macintyre

Download or read book A Concise History of Australia written by Stuart Macintyre and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth edition investigates the key factors - social, economic and political - that continue to shape modern-day Australia.

Australia's Own Cold War

Author : Tom Sheridan
Publisher : Mup Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780522853858
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (538 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Australia's Own Cold War by : Tom Sheridan

Download or read book Australia's Own Cold War written by Tom Sheridan and published by Mup Academic. This book was released on 2006 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Sheridan's authoritative account of the complex interplay between government, shipowners, management and waterside workers is a compelling tour de force of labour history. By focusing on the personalities, strategies and values of the players on all he challenges our understanding of the era and the issues.

Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity

Author : Dan Halvorson
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760463248
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity by : Dan Halvorson

Download or read book Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity written by Dan Halvorson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's engagement with Asia from 1944 until the late 1960s was based on a sense of responsibility to the United Kingdom and its Southeast Asian colonies as they navigated a turbulent independence into the British Commonwealth. The circumstances of the early Cold War decades also provided for a mutual sense of solidarity with the non-communist states of East Asia, with which Australia mostly enjoyed close relationships. From 1967 into the early 1970s, however, Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity demonstrates that the framework for this deep Australian engagement with its region was progressively eroded by a series of compounding, external factors: the 1967 formation of ASEAN and its consolidation by the mid-1970s as the premier regional organisation surpassing the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC); Britain's withdrawal from East of Suez; Washington's de-escalation and gradual withdrawal from Vietnam after March 1968; the 1969 Nixon doctrine that America's Asia-Pacific allies must take up more of the burden of providing for their own security; and US rapprochement with China in 1972. The book shows that these profound changes marked the start of Australia's political distancing from the region during the 1970s despite the intentions, efforts and policies of governments from Whitlam onwards to foster deeper engagement. By 1974, Australia had been pushed to the margins of the region, with its engagement premised on a broadening but shallower transactional basis.

The Secret Cold War

Author : John Blaxland
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1952535484
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (525 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Secret Cold War by : John Blaxland

Download or read book The Secret Cold War written by John Blaxland and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions between the superpowers continued to play out across the world. Until now, few would have known of the surprising extent of clandestine operations in Australia by foreign intelligence operatives and the violence-prone activities of local extremist groups from the Middle East, Armenia and Croatia in the 1970s and 1980s. Meanwhile, prompted by probing royal commissions and reviews, ASIO was being systematically transformed into a modern intelligence organisation. The Secret Cold War uncovers behind the scenes stories of the Hilton bombing in Sydney, assassinations of diplomats, the Combe-Ivanov affair, and the new threat from China. It reveals that KGB officers were able to recruit and run agents in Australia for many years, and it follows ASIO's own investigations into persistent allegations of penetration by Soviet moles. The Secret Cold War is the third and final volume of The Official History of ASIO. 'The Secret Cold War concludes the seminal trilogy of the Official History of ASIO, and provides an unabashed perspective into ASIO's inner workings throughout the 1970s and 1980s.' - His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia

Historical Dictionary of Australia

Author : Norman Abjorensen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442245026
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Australia by : Norman Abjorensen

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Australia written by Norman Abjorensen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia’s development, from the most unpromising of beginnings as a British prison in 1788 to the prosperous liberal democracy of the present is as remarkable as is its success as a country of large-scale immigration. Since 1942 it has been a loyal ally of the United States and has demonstrated this loyalty by contributing troops to the war in Vietnam and by being part of the “coalition of the willing” in the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and in operations in Afghanistan. In recent years, it has also been more willing to promote peace and democracy in its Pacific and Asian neighbors. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Australia covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Australia.

Seeking Meaning, Seeking Justice in a Post-Cold War World

Author : Judith Keene
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004361677
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Seeking Meaning, Seeking Justice in a Post-Cold War World by : Judith Keene

Download or read book Seeking Meaning, Seeking Justice in a Post-Cold War World written by Judith Keene and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenge for historians, as for individuals and nations, has been to make sense of the Cold War past without recourse to the obsolete frameworks of a dichotomous world. The editors of Seeking Meaning, Seeking Justice in the Post-Cold War World, Judith Keene and Elizabeth Rechniewski, have brought together contributions that address the diverse modes by which the Cold War is being assessed, with a major focus on countries on the periphery of the Cold War confrontation. These approaches include developments in historiography as new intellectual and cultural frame are applied to old debates. Authors also consider the ‘universal’ principles and moral discourses, including that of human rights, on which judgements have been based and judicial processes instigated; and the forms of memorialisation that have sought to come to terms, and perhaps achieve reconciliation, with a Cold War past. Contributors are: Ann Curthoys, Philip Deery, Katherine Hite, Michael Humphrey, Su-kyong Hwang, Perry Johansson, Judith Keene, Betty O'Neill, Peter Read, Elizabeth Rechniewski, Estela Valverde, Adrian Vickers and Marivic Wyndham

Unipolarity and the Evolution of America's Cold War Alliances

Author : Nigel Thalakada
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137010967
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Unipolarity and the Evolution of America's Cold War Alliances by : Nigel Thalakada

Download or read book Unipolarity and the Evolution of America's Cold War Alliances written by Nigel Thalakada and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thalakada argues that the principal purpose of US alliances have shifted since the end of the Cold War from containing communist expansionism (balance of power) to preserving and exercising US power (management of power).He also looks across all US alliances highlighting the trend from regionally-based to more globally-active alliances.

Cold War and Decolonisation

Author : Andrea Benvenuti
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9814722197
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cold War and Decolonisation by : Andrea Benvenuti

Download or read book Cold War and Decolonisation written by Andrea Benvenuti and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia’s policy towards Britain’s end of empire in Southeast Asia influenced the course of this decolonization in the region. In this book, Andrea Benvenuti discusses the development of Australia’s foreign and defence policies towards Malaya and Singapore in light of the redefinition of Britain’s imperial role in Southeast Asia and the formation of new post-colonial states. Placed within the emerging literature on the global impact of the Cold War, the book sheds new light on the choices made – by Australia, by Britain and the new emerging states – in these crucial years.

The Politics of Peacekeeping in the Post-cold War Era

Author : David S. Sorenson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714684888
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Politics of Peacekeeping in the Post-cold War Era by : David S. Sorenson

Download or read book The Politics of Peacekeeping in the Post-cold War Era written by David S. Sorenson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on explaining peacekeeping commitment decisions at the nation-state level, filling a gap in the peacekeeping scholarly literature on the political dynamics of peacekeeping decisions.

The Unknown Nation

Author : James Curran
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522856454
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Unknown Nation by : James Curran

Download or read book The Unknown Nation written by James Curran and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unknown Nation is an illuminating history of Australia's putative 'search' for national identity. James Curran and Stuart Ward document how the receding ties of empire and Britishness posed an unprecedented dilemma as Australians lost their traditional ways of defining themselves as a people. With the sudden disappearance in the 1960s and 1970s of the familiar coordinates of the British world, Australians were cast into the realm of the unknown. The task of remodelling the national image touched every aspect of Australian life where identifiably British ideas, habits and symbols--from foreign relations to the national anthem--had grown obsolete. But how to celebrate Australia's past achievements and present aspirations became a source of public controversy as community leaders struggled to find the appropriate language and rhetoric to invoke a new era.

Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923

Author : Neville Kingsley Meaney
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1920899170
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923 by : Neville Kingsley Meaney

Download or read book Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923 written by Neville Kingsley Meaney and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923 is the second volume in a pioneering two-volume history of Australian defence and foreign policy. It is based on wide-ranging research in collections of personal and official papers in Australia, Britain, the United States and Canada. Linking up with the first volume, The Search for Security in the Pacific, it offers a new and path-breaking understanding of Australia's relations with the world from the outbreak of the First World War to the making of peace in Europe and the Pacific. This study explores a number of fundamental issues that shaped Australia's response to the world in this era, such as race and culture, geopolitics and security, domestic divisions and ideas of loyalty, and the philosophies and personalities of the chief policy makers. From the outset of this global conflict Australia was involved in a 'hot war' in Europe against Germany and its allies, and in a 'cold war' in the Pacific against Japan. The British Australians, for reasons of sentiment and interest, supported the Mother Country, but even as they did so they were deeply concerned about Japan's ambitions. As a result Japan figured prominently in Australia's approach to the war and the peace. Indeed for the Australians the 'cold war' did not come to an end until the Washington Conference of 1921-2, when Japan with the other Pacific powers agreed to limit naval building and to respect existing territories in China and the Pacific. In tracing out this story, the book throws light on many particular aspects of the 'hot' and 'cold' wars. They include the origins of Asian studies in Australia, intelligence gathering, the secret service and loyalty leagues, the fear of Japan in the conscription controversy, Irish Catholics and the Anglo-Irish War. The labour movement and the Bolshevik revolution, the ideological clash of the American President and the Australian Prime Minister over peacemaking, the visit of the Prince of Wales, 'Britishness' and the failure of the idea of Greater Britain all influenced the development of Australia's defence and foreign policy. At the end of the book there is an attempt to provide an assessment of Australia's leadership through these testing times and to point out the significance of this experience for a later generation of Australia policy makers.

The Legacy of Nuremberg: Civilising Influence or Institutionalised Vengeance?

Author : David Arnon Blumenthal
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047423364
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Legacy of Nuremberg: Civilising Influence or Institutionalised Vengeance? by : David Arnon Blumenthal

Download or read book The Legacy of Nuremberg: Civilising Influence or Institutionalised Vengeance? written by David Arnon Blumenthal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new collection of essays the editors assess the legacy of the Nuremberg Trial asking whether the Trial really did have a civilising influence or if it constituted little more than institutionalised vengeance. Three essays focus particularly on the historical context and involve rich analysis of, for example, the atmospherics of the Trial itself and the attitudes of German society at the time to the conduct of the Trial. The majority of the essays deal with the contemporary legacies of the Nuremberg Trial and attempt to assess the ongoing relevance of the Judgment itself and of the principles encapsulated in it. Some essays consider the importance of the principle of individual criminal responsibility under international law and argue that the international community has to some extent failed to fulfil the promise of Nuremberg in the decades since the Trial. Other essays focus on contemporary application of aspects of the substantive law of Nuremberg - particularly the international crime of aggression, the law of military occupation and the use of the crime of conspiracy as an alternative basis of criminal responsibility. The collection also includes essays analysing the nature and operation of a number of international criminal tribunals since Nuremberg including the permanent International Criminal Court. The final grouping of essays focus on the impact of the Nuremberg Trial on Australia examining, in particular, Australia’s post-World War Two war crimes trials of Japanese defendants, Australia’s extensive national case law on Article 1(F) of the Refugee Convention and Australia’s national implementing legislation for the Rome Statute.

New Developments in Australian Politics

Author : Brian Galligan
Publisher : Macmillan Education AU
ISBN 13 : 9780732943042
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis New Developments in Australian Politics by : Brian Galligan

Download or read book New Developments in Australian Politics written by Brian Galligan and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of contemporary issues in Australian politics. Part I examines the operation of the political system and political culture. Part II looks at issues such as republicanism and citizenship. Part III examines Australia's recent attempts to reshape defence and foreign policy in response to the post-Cold War international environment and Australia's response to the impact of globalisation on the economy. Includes references and index. Also available in paperback. The 14 contributors include Clive Bean, Graeme Cheeseman and Glyn Davis.

How to Defend Australia

Author : Hugh White
Publisher : La Trobe University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743820976
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis How to Defend Australia by : Hugh White

Download or read book How to Defend Australia written by Hugh White and published by La Trobe University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and important book about Australia’s future Can Australia defend itself in the Asian century? How seriously ought we take the risk of war? Do we want to remain a middle power? What kind of strategy, and what Australian Defence Force, do we need? In this groundbreaking book, Hugh White considers these questions and more. With exceptional clarity and frankness, he makes the case for a reconceived defence of Australia. Along the way he offers intriguing insights into history, technology and the Australian way of war. Hugh White is the country’s most provocative, revelatory and yet realistic commentator on Australia’s strategic and defence orientation. In an age of power politics and armed rivalry in Asia, it is time for fresh thinking. In this controversial and persuasive contribution, White sets new terms for one of the most crucial conversations Australia needs to have. ‘This book, by one of Australia’s leading defence policy thinkers, will be a very important contribution to our national discussion in coming years. Hugh White tackles many challenging issues and opens up the new debate that we need to have as Australia plots its course through a changing international environment.’—Robert O’Neill, former Chichele Professor of the history of war, University of Oxford ‘Hugh White is among our most knowledgeable and practised strategists. While I am strongly supportive of the US alliance, How to Defend Australia is a serious work from a serious patriot that requires close reading. It deserves a wide audience.’—Kim Beazley

Quarterly Essay 36 Australian Story

Author : Mungo MacCallum
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921825359
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Quarterly Essay 36 Australian Story by : Mungo MacCallum

Download or read book Quarterly Essay 36 Australian Story written by Mungo MacCallum and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Australian Story, Mungo MacCallum investigates the political success of Kevin Rudd. What does he know about Australia that his opponents don’t? This is a characteristically barbed and perceptive look at the challenges facing the government and the country. MacCallum argues that the things we used to rely on are not there anymore. On the Right, the blind faith in markets has recently collapsed. The Left lost its guiding light with the demise of the socialist dream. In entertaining fashion, MacCallum dissects the myths that made Australia: the idea of the Lucky Country, with endless pastures, a workingman’s paradise, a new Britannia, and more. In newly uncertain times, MacCallum argues, Rudd has sought to tap into these myths, in the process reclaiming them from John Howard. Australian Story is both a canny assessment of the Rudd government’s election-winning approach and a broader meditation on the nation’s core traditions at a time of major change and challenge. “Rudd has made it clear that he is looking forward to a long time in office ... If the polls are to be believed, he is still seen as the best man for the job by an overwhelming majority of Australians. But why? What is it about this repetitive, boring, God-bothering nerd that appeals to the proverbially laid-back, cynical, disengaged public?” —Mungo MacCallum, Australian Story

Partners in deterrence

Author : Stephan Frühling
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526150719
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Partners in deterrence by : Stephan Frühling

Download or read book Partners in deterrence written by Stephan Frühling and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of the atomic age to today, nuclear weapons have been central to the internal dynamics of US alliances in Europe and Asia. But nuclear weapons cooperation in US alliances has varied significantly between allies and over time. This book explores the history of America’s nuclear posture worldwide, delving into alliance structures and interaction during and since the end of the Cold War to uncover the underlying dynamics of nuclear weapons cooperation between the US and its allies. Combining in-depth empirical analysis with an accessible theoretical lens, the book reveals that US allies have wielded significant influence in shaping nuclear weapons cooperation with the US in ways that reflect their own, often idiosyncratic, objectives. Alliances are ecosystems of exchange rather than mere tools of external balancing, the book argues, and institutional perspectives can offer an unprecedented insight into how structured cooperation can promote policy convergence.