1st Edition

Australia on the World Stage History, Politics, and International Relations

234 Pages 5 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 5 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 5 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Australia on the World Stage: History, Politics, and International Relations offers a fresh examination of Australia’s past and present. From the complex interactions of First Nations to modern international relations with significant partners and allies, it examines the forces that have influenced the place now called Australia both historically and today. It is a unique history told in two... Read more

1. When and Where is Australia?

Bridget Brooklyn, Benjamin T. Jones, and Rebecca Strating

Part I

Before Australia

Lawrence Bamblett

Australia Before Responsible Government (1606 – 1856)

Carol Liston

From British Australasia to Federation: No Linear Progression

André Brett

Federation to the Second World War: Australian Identity and Anzac

Bridget Brooklyn

British Dominion to Almost Republic: Australia Responds to the End of Empire

Benjamin T. Jones

First Nations and Australia: Walking together or walking alone?

James Blackwell

Part II

The Unbreakable Alliance? Strategic Dependence and Australia’s US Alliance

Rebecca Strating

The Harder They Fall: Australia-China relations in Xi Jinping’s New Era

John Fitzgerald

Australia-Japan Relations: Close ties and shared aspirations

David Walton

Australia and Indonesia: The Persistence of Distance between Proximate Neighbours

Michael O’Keefe

Pacific Nation or Neighbour?: Australia’s relationship with New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific

Helen Bones and Nicholas Ferns

Australia’s Southern Flank: Antarctica

Elizabeth Buchanan

Australia and the United Nations

Roland Burke and Jon Piccini

Biography

Bridget Brooklyn is a Lecturer in Australian History at Western Sydney University. Recent publications are ‘Mary Booth's Imperial Nationalism in the Aftermath of the Great War, in After the Armistice: Empire, Endgame and Aftermath ed. M. J. Walsh & A. Varnava (Routledge, 2021), and ‘Mnemosyne and Athena: Mary Booth, Anzac, and the Language of Remembrance in the First World War and After’, in Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific: Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse ed. A. Laugesen & C. Fisher (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Benjamin T. Jones is a Senior Lecturer in History at Central Queensland University, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Studies Institute. He also serves on the national executive committee of the Australian Historical Association. His most recent books are History in a Post-Truth World (Routledge, 2020) and This Time: Australia’s Republican Past and Future (Redback, 2018).

Rebecca Strating is the Director of La Trobe Asia and an Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her most recent book was Defending the Maritime Rules-based Order: Regional Responses to the South China Sea Disputes (East West Center, 2020).