Fear Of Security: Australia's Invasion Anxiety
by Anthony Burke /
2008 / English / PDF
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Rarely has security been such a preoccupation of Australian
politics, and rarely has it seemed so far from being achieved. This
celebrated book argues that security has dominated and distorted
Australia's foreign policy and national life, from Cook's first
voyage to the Tampa crisis, 9/11 and Iraq. Whether in the Great
War, Vietnam or the treatment of asylum seekers, Anthony Burke
shows that Australia's security has been bought with the insecurity
and suffering of others. Against this corrosive tradition, he
offers a new - cosmopolitan and non-coercive - model of national
existence and responsibility. At once a deep historical survey and
an argument with its society, Fear of Security is a landmark
account of how Australia relates to itself, its region and the
world. Turning powerful academic and political orthodoxies on their
heads, it is essential reading for those concerned with the burning
questions that face Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
Rarely has security been such a preoccupation of Australian
politics, and rarely has it seemed so far from being achieved. This
celebrated book argues that security has dominated and distorted
Australia's foreign policy and national life, from Cook's first
voyage to the Tampa crisis, 9/11 and Iraq. Whether in the Great
War, Vietnam or the treatment of asylum seekers, Anthony Burke
shows that Australia's security has been bought with the insecurity
and suffering of others. Against this corrosive tradition, he
offers a new - cosmopolitan and non-coercive - model of national
existence and responsibility. At once a deep historical survey and
an argument with its society, Fear of Security is a landmark
account of how Australia relates to itself, its region and the
world. Turning powerful academic and political orthodoxies on their
heads, it is essential reading for those concerned with the burning
questions that face Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
