Australian Foreign Policy in Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Liminal Australia in Asia

   • Allan Patience

   Pages 1-16

3. Middle Powers and Awkward Partners

   • Allan Patience

   Pages 17-50

4. Australia’s Middle Power Imagining

   • Allan Patience

   Pages 51-88

5. To Be or Not to Be in Asia?

   • Allan Patience

   Pages 89-136

6. Japan: ‘Australia’s Best Friend in Asia’?

   • Allan Patience

   Pages 137-181

7. ‘Fear and Greed’? Australia Relations with China

   • Allan Patience

   Pages 183-213

8. To Appease or Offend? Australia’s Indonesia Dilemma

   • Allan Patience

   Pages 215-232

9. Dependent Middle Power or Global Citizen?

   • Allan Patience

   Pages 233-255

10. Back Matter

    Pages 257-322

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This book sets out to discuss what kind of ‘middle power’ Australia is, and whether its identity as a middle power negatively influences its relationship with Asia. It looks at the history of the middle power concept, develops three concepts of middle power status and examines Australia’s relationships with China, Japan and Indonesia as a focus. It argues that Australia is an ‘awkward partner’ in its relations with Asia due to both its historical colonial and discriminatory past, as well its current dependence upon the United States for a security alliance. It argues this should be changed by adopting a new middle power concept in Australian foreign policy.

• Australia
• Asia
• Foreign Policy
• Middle Power
• Regional Politics
• Geopolitics
• Post-colonialism
• Japan
• China
• Indonesia
• Security

• School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

  Allan Patience

Allan Patience is a Principal Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has held chairs in political science and Asian studies in Australia and Japan and visiting academic appointments in China, Taiwan, Burma, and Papua New Guinea.

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