Making Australian Foreign Policy

Discusses the processes, institutions, actors and calculations involved in foreign policy making in Australia.

Allan Gyngell (Author), Michael Wesley (Author)

9780521700313, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 September 2007

352 pages, 1 map 40 tables
23 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.512 kg

Discusses the processes, institutions, actors and calculations involved in foreign policy making in Australia. Looks at the role of the government departments and intelligence organisations that support the government's policy-making, and the thinking of the people who make it, in more detail than ever before. It draws on an extensive survey of how Australian foreign affairs officials think about the world. This fully revised and updated edition includes four new chapters on Australia's security, prosperity, values and its place in the world. It includes two new case studies covering the negotiation of the US-Australia free trade agreement and Australia's regional mission to the Solomon Islands.

Preface to first edition
Preface to second edition
1. Introduction
2. Conceiving foreign policy
3. The policy process
Case study: the Cambodia Peace Settlement
4. The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy
5. The executive
Case study: Developing Regional Architecture - The APEC Leaders' Meetings
6. The overseas network
7. The Australian Intelligence Community
8. The domestic landscape
Case study: The Bali Bombings: Foreign Policy Comes Home
9. The International Policy Landscape
10. Australia's Place in the World
Case study: The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands
11. Australia's security
12. Australia's Prosperity
Case study: the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement
13. Values and Australian foreign policy
14. Conclusion: the end of foreign policy?
Appendix
Glossary
Index.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS], Political structure & processes [JPH], Comparative politics [JPB], Globalization [JFFS]