Australia on the World Stage: History, Politics, and International Relations offers a fresh examination of Australias past and present. From the complex interactions of First Nations to modern international relations with significant partners and allies, it examines the forces that have influenced the place now called Australia both historically and today. It is a unique history told in two parts.
The first half of the book examines the way Australia acted on the world stage both before and after British colonisation. It outlines the evolution of Australias relationship with the United Kingdom, first as colonies, then a dominion, and finally as an independent nation. It finishes with a First Nations perspective on foreign relations. The second half of the book provides a wide-ranging history of Australias dealings with major powers, the United States and China, as well as its relationships with New Zealand, Aotearoa, the Pacific Islands, Indonesia, Japan, Antarctica, and the United Nations. Written by leading and emerging researchers in their fields, this book encourages the reader to consider Australias performance on the world stage over the longue durée, well before the word Australia was ever dreamt up.
This interdisciplinary work challenges lazy stereotypes that see Australia's international history as fixed and uncontested. In revisiting Australias foreign relations, this work also asks the reader to consider its future directions.
1. When and Where is Australia? Part I
2. Before Australia
3. Australia
Before Responsible Government (1606 1856)
4. From British Australasia to
Federation: No Linear Progression
5. Federation to the Second World War:
Australian Identity and Anzac
6. British Dominion to Almost Republic:
Australia Responds to the End of Empire
7. First Nations and Australia:
Walking Together or Walking Alone? Part II
8. The Unbreakable Alliance?
Strategic Dependence and Australias US Alliance
9. The Harder They Fall:
Australia-China relations in Xi Jinpings New Era
10. Australia-Japan
Relations: Close Ties and Shared Aspirations
11. Australia and Indonesia: The
Persistence of Distance between Proximate Neighbours
12. Pacific Nation or
Neighbour: Australias Relationship with New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and
the Pacific
13. Australias Southern Flank: Antarctica
14. Australia and the
United Nations
Bridget Brooklyn is a Lecturer in Australian History at Western Sydney University. Recent publications are Mary Booth's Imperial Nationalism in the Aftermath of the Great War, in After the Armistice: Empire, Endgame and Aftermath ed. M. J. Walsh & A. Varnava (Routledge, 2021), and Mnemosyne and Athena: Mary Booth, Anzac, and the Language of Remembrance in the First World War and After, in Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific: Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse ed. A. Laugesen & C. Fisher (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
Benjamin T. Jones is a Senior Lecturer in History at Central Queensland University, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Studies Institute. He also serves on the national executive committee of the Australian Historical Association. His most recent books are History in a Post-Truth World (Routledge, 2020) and This Time: Australias Republican Past and Future (Redback, 2018).
Rebecca Strating is the Director of La Trobe Asia and an Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her most recent book was Defending the Maritime Rules-based Order: Regional Responses to the South China Sea Disputes (East West Center, 2020).
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