المؤلفون: Benvenuti, Andrea, Jones, David Martin

المصدر: Journal of Cold War Studies, 2011 Oct 01. 13(4), 57-78.

URL الوصول: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26924043

المؤلفون: Benvenuti, Andrea, Jones, David Martin

المصدر: Journal of Cold War Studies, 2010 Oct 01. 12(4), 32-62.

URL الوصول: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26923447

المؤلفون: Andrea Benvenuti, David Martin Jones

المصدر: Journal of Cold War Studies. 21:27-57

مصطلحات موضوعية: History, Watershed, Foreign policy, Political science, Political Science and International Relations, Economic history, Southeast asian

الوصف: A generation of scholars has depicted the premiership of Labor Party leader Gough Whitlam as a watershed in Australian foreign policy. According to the prevailing consensus, Whitlam carved out a more independent and progressive role in international affairs without significantly endangering relations with Western-aligned states in East and Southeast Asia or with Australia's traditionally closest allies, the United States and the United Kingdom. This article takes issue with these views and offers a more skeptical assessment of Whitlam's diplomacy and questions his handling of Australia's alliance with the United States. In doing so, it shows that Whitlam, in his eagerness to embrace détente, reject containment, and project an image of an allegedly more progressive and independent Australia, in fact exacerbated tensions with Richard Nixon's Republican administration and caused disquiet among Southeast Asian countries that were aligned with or at least friendly toward the West.

URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::373090eb412c7de067d3137981b664e2
https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_00876

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المؤلفون: Andrea Benvenuti, David Martin Jones

المصدر: Journal of Cold War Studies. 13:57-78

مصطلحات موضوعية: International relations, History, media_common.quotation_subject, Orthodoxy, Mythology, Regional policy, Politics, Misrepresentation, Foreign policy, Political economy, Political science, Law, Political Science and International Relations, Anachronism, media_common

الوصف: The prevailing orthodoxy in the academic literature devoted to the history of Australia's post-1945 international relations posits that a mixture of suspicion and condescension permeated the attitude of the governments headed by Robert Menzies (1949–1966) toward the Asia-Pacific region. Menzies's regional policies, according to this view, not only prevented Australia from engaging meaningfully with its Asian neighbors but also ended up antagonizing them. This article rejects the conventional view and instead shows that the prevailing left-Labor assessments of Menzies's regional policy are fundamentally marred by an anachronistic disregard of the diplomatic dynamics, political challenges, and economic realities of Cold War Asia.

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https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_00168

المؤلفون: David Martin Jones, Andrea Benvenuti

المصدر: Journal of Cold War Studies. 12:32-62

مصطلحات موضوعية: History, Government, media_common.quotation_subject, Mythology, Southeast asia, Power (social and political), Economy, Foreign policy, Political economy, Political science, Political Science and International Relations, Cold war, Foreign relations, Diplomacy, media_common

الوصف: This article draws on previously classified Australian and British archival material to reevaluate Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s foreign policy. The article focuses on the Whitlam government’s decision in 1973 to withdraw Australian forces from Malaysia and Singapore—a decision that constitutes a neglected but defining episode in the evolution of Australian postwar diplomacy. An analysis of this decision reveals the limits of Whitlam’s attempt to redefine the conduct of Australian foreign policy from 1972 to 1975, a policy he saw as too heavily influenced by the Cold War. Focusing on Whitlam’s approach to the Five Power Defence Arrangement, this article contends that far from being an adroit and skillful architect of Australian engagement with Asia, Whitlam irritated Australia’s regional allies and complicated Australia’s relations with its immediate neighbors. Australia’s subsequent adjustment to its neighborhood was not the success story implied in the general histories of Australian diplomacy. Whitlam’s policy toward Southeast Asia, far from being a “watershed” in foreign relations, as often assumed, left Australia increasingly isolated from its region and more reliant on its chief Cold War ally, the United States. © 2010 Project MUSE®.

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https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_00047

المؤلفون: Benvenuti, Andrea, Jones, David Martin

المصدر: Journal of Cold War Studies; Fall2010, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p32-62, 31p, 3 Charts

مصطلحات موضوعية: INTERNATIONAL relations, MALAYSIAN history, 20TH century Australian history, HISTORY of Singapore -- 1965-1990, AUSTRALIAN foreign relations, 1945-, AUSTRALIAN politics & government, 1945-, HISTORY of political parties

مصطلحات جغرافية: SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA, AUSTRALIA

الشركة/الكيان: AUSTRALIAN Labor Party

People: WHITLAM, Gough, 1916-2014

مستخلص: The article discusses the military withdrawal of Australian forces from Singapore and Malaysia in 1973. It examines the foreign policy of former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam and the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The authors argue that Whitlam's policies in Southeast Asia were not as significant as other scholarship has suggested. The article examines the reasoning behind the ALP's decision to disengage from Southeast Asia, the impact the actions had on Australia's regional allies, and how Australia attempted to facilitate regional stability.