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Rarely has security been such a preoccupation of Australian politics, and rarely has it seemed so far from being achieved. This celebrated book argues that security has dominated and distorted Australia's foreign policy and national life, from Cook's first voyage to the Tampa crisis, 9/11 and Iraq. Whether in the Great War, Vietnam or the treatment of asylum seekers, Anthony Burke shows that Australia's security has been bought with the insecurity and suffering of others. Against this corrosive tradition, he offers a new - cosmopolitan and non-coercive - model of national existence and responsibility. At once a deep historical survey and an argument with its society, Fear of Security is a landmark account of how Australia relates to itself, its region and the world. Turning powerful academic and political orthodoxies on their heads, it is essential reading for those concerned with the burning questions that face Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government International relations

• Full title: Fear of Security
• Subtitle: Australia's Invasion Anxiety
• Author: Anthony Burke
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780521714273
• ISBN: 0521714273
• ID: 02041254
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 38 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 137 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. February 2008

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