Author: Australia. Parliament. Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Trade
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Author: Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
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Languages : en
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Author: Nikola Pijović
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811334234
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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This book offers analysis of Australia’s engagement with Africa, as well as the country’s rather unique status as a ‘new’ actor and emerging country in Africa. With its empirical originality and comparative contribution, the book fills a gap in both the study of Africa’s global engagement with emerging countries, and in connection with Australia’s largely unknown engagement with African states. Australia has presented itself as Africa’s ‘friend from the south,’ without any colonial baggage, and is interested in a long-term partnership for trade and development. In this context, Australia is only one of many ‘new’ players seeking more intensive engagement with Africa since the end of the Cold War. At its core, the book argues that because of its largely unacknowledged ‘flawed’ historical engagement with Africa, as well as the political partisanship driving its fickle and volatile contemporary engagement with the continent, Australia suffers from an inability to assess its strategic and long-term interests – i.e., it doesn’t know what it wants in or from Africa. This makes Australia a rather unique emerging player in Africa: while other 'new' actors' engagement with Africa is generally strategic, and driven to a large extent by a desire to secure resources and counter the influence of geopolitical rivals, Australia’s efforts with regard to Africa are more episodic and not about acquiring resources or countering its rivals. Hence, while immigration, globalization, trade, terrorism, and climate change continue to bring Africa and Australia closer together, Australia’s failure to understand its own interests continues to hamper its engagement with Africa.

Author: Australia. Parliament. Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Trade
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ISBN: 9780642258571
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: David Mickler
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522862632
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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Recent developments in both Africa and Australia have brought the two continents closer together. In Africa, a resources boom, greater political stability, and the creation of the new regional institutions have contributed to economic and human development, even if many challenges including conflict, poverty and exploitation remain. Australia has commercial and political interests in Africa and, if it wants to be a significant global actor, must engage with both Africa’s challenges and its growing international influence. Since coming to power in 2007, Australian Labor governments have pursued ‘new engagement’ with Africa after decades of relative neglect. This book, the first study of its kind, explores the key contexts for and dimensions of contemporary Australian foreign policy towards Africa. It highlights a deepening of diplomatic and political relations, a trebling of the official aid budget to Africa, and over $50 billion of Australian-based investment in Africa’s resources sector, and suggests measures to make such engagement sustainable and of mutual benefit. Contributions to the book come from academics, civil servants, diplomats and politicians.

Author: Jennifer Book
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Australia. Committee of Inquiry into Industrial Relations in Australian Naval Dockyards
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Languages : en
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Publisher: National Library Australia
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Languages : en
Pages : 1022

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Author: Australia. Department of Defence
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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