Documents on Australian Foreign Policy

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Australia and the Suez Crisis, 19501957

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Documents on Australian Foreign Policy offers an in-depth exploration of Australia's international relationships and diplomatic history. The book presents a curated collection of official documents, providing insight into the country's foreign policy decisions and key international events across various eras. It is a valuable resource for understanding how Australia's global engagements have evolved over time.
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This book may appeal to you if you have a keen interest in the intricacies of Australia's international relations and diplomatic history. It provides valuable insights into the country's foreign policy decisions, offering a comprehensive and detailed account through original documents. It is ideal for history buffs and students of military studies looking for a deeper understanding of Australia’s role on the global stage.

Documents on Australian Foreign Policy

This volume, commissioned by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Documents on Australian Foreign Policy series, is the first comprehensive survey of Australia's approach to the Suez Crisis.

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Australia and the Suez Crisis 1950–1957 focuses on the evolution of Australian policy before, during, and after the Suez Crisis. The central theme of the volume is how, in the development of the Australian policy response to that crisis, questions of identity became entangled with shifts in the relativities of national power.

The documents in this volume reveal the contending perspectives among officials in Canberra, London, and Washington, which shaped the advice provided to the Menzies Government. There was a considerable gap between Prime Minister Menzies and External Affairs Minister Richard R. G. Casey regarding the British approach.

It includes a robust exchange of correspondence between Menzies and US President Dwight D. Eisenhower regarding US policy, the diplomatic handling of which fell largely to Casey. Additionally, it incorporates correspondence, minutes, and records of conversation from a range of government departments, as well as discussions between senior Cabinet ministers that provide new insights into the policymaking process.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781742236643

Publisher: NewSouth Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 May 2021

Country: Australia

Imprint: NewSouth Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Matthew Jordan
Edited by Robert Bowker

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 160.0mm

Height: 225.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 1104

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Australian & Pacific History History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Dr Robert Bowker (PhD, Australian National University) retired from Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2008 after a 37-year career focussed on Middle East issues. He was the Australian Ambassador to Egypt from 2005 to 2008. He was Ambassador to Jordan from 1989 to 1992 and served in Syria (197981) and Saudi Arabia (197476). He has published extensively on the Middle East, including Beyond Peace: The Search for Security in the Middle East (Lynne Rienner, 1996); Palestinian Refugees: Mythology, Identity and the Search for Peace (Lynne Rienner, 2003); and Egypt and the Politics of Change in the Middle East (Edward Elger, 2010). From 200819 he was an Adjunct Professor, and later an Honorary Visiting Fellow, at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University.

Dr Matthew Jordan (PhD, University of Sydney) is Head of the Historical Research Section in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and General Editor of Documents on Australian Foreign Policy. He has published mostly in the area of Australian foreign policy history, focusing especially on the role played by ideas of race and nation in shaping Australia's attitudes to the world. This includes a number of articles and book chapters on the origins and nature of the White Australia policy and, more recently, a documentary study of Australia and the Rhodesian Problem, 19611972 (UNSW Press, 2017). He is working on a follow-up volume covering Australia's approach to Zimbabwean independence and a documentary history of the liberalisation and abolition of the White Australia policy from the 1940s to the 1970s.