Australia, and ASEAN at Fifty

Authors

  • Alan Bloomfield University of Western Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54945/jjia.v2i2.85

Keywords:

Australian foreign policy, ASEAN way, dialogue partner, Bangkok Declaration, Labour Party, Liberal-National Coalition, Australia ASEAN trade, APEC, East Asia Economic Caucus

Abstract

In its early documents related to Asianist orientation, Australia looked at engaging its immediate neighbourhood through institution such as ASEAN. ASEAN which was created to bring about synergies within the region and also engage important stakeholders as dialogue partners. Australia has been involved in Vietnam as part of its alliance obligations with US in 1970s and subsequently also. Australia has looked into ASEAN as a vehicle for cooperation, development and building better relations with Indonesia. The author argues that while Australia has aligned itself with the concept of the ASEAN way, there has not been any tectonic shift in the way Australia conducts its foreign policy. Even though Australia was one of the earliest dialogue partner in ASEAN, it has calibrated its policy depending on the national government priorities and the international interests of the country. The article also outlines the narrative from Australian perspective and situates ASEAN in the larger foreign policy discourse in Australia.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...

Author Biography

Alan Bloomfield, University of Western Australia

Alan Bloomfield is currently working as lecturer at University of Western Australia. He can be reached at alan.bloomfield@uwa.edu.au

Downloads

Published

2018-12-01

How to Cite

Bloomfield, A. (2018). Australia, and ASEAN at Fifty. Jindal Journal of International Affairs, 6(2), 38–57. https://doi.org/10.54945/jjia.v2i2.85

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018)

Section

Articles
Crossref
Scopus
Google Scholar
Europe PMC

References

Acharya, Amitav. 2009. Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, p. 79. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801459757

Narine, Shaun. 2009. ‘ASEAN in the Twenty-first Century: A Sceptical Review’, Cambridge Review of International Studies, 22(3), pp. 380-383 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09557570903104065

Mainly for pragmatic reasons, namely, to explore a single state’s policies and attitudes is simpler than considering all 10 ASEAN states’ positions.

Tripathi, Maneesha. 2015. ‘European Union and ASEAN: A Comparison’. International Journal of Research 2(1), 377-379.

Goldsworthy, David. 2001. Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia, Volume 1: 1901 to the 1970s. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 280.

Cablegram, ‘Johnston to London’, 1 June 1967, National Archives of Australia (NAA), PREM13/726, PRO; Goldsworthy, David. 2012. Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain’s Empire. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 112.

Goldsworthy, Facing North, 259.

Memorandum, ‘Australian Membership of ASEAN, Anderson to Bowen (Minister for Foreign Affairs)’, 21 July 1972, NAA, A1838, 3000/13/21/3, Part 1.

New Zealand, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea and Turkey

Goldsworthy, Facing North, 345-346.

Ungerer, Carl. 2007. ‘The Middle Power Concept in Australian Foreign Policy’. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 53(4), 538-551. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2007.00473.x

Narine, ‘ASEAN’, 380.

Ravenhill, John. 1998. ‘Adjusting to the ASEAN Way: Thirty Years of Australia’s Relations with ASEAN’, Pacific Review 11(2), 277 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09512749808719257

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia). 2016. Composition of Trade, Australia, 2015- 16. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia

Pitty, Roderick. 2001. ‘Regional Economic Co-operation’, in Peter Edwards and David Goldsworthy (eds.), Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagements with Asia, Volume 2: 1970s to 2000. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 13-47.

Scollay, Robert, and John Gilbert. 2000. ‘Measuring the Gains from APEC Trade Liberalisation: An Overview of CGE Assessments’. World Economy, 23(2), 175-200. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9701.00267

Shenon, Philip, ‘Malaysian Premier Demands Apology’, New York Times, 9 December 1993

Dee, Moreen, and Frank Frost. 2001. ‘Indochina’, in Edwards and Goldsworthy, Facing North, Vol. 2, 197

Wesley, Michael, and Tony Warren. 2000. ‘Wild Colonial Ploys? Currents of Thought in Australian Foreign Policy’, Australian Journal of Political Science 35(1), 17-20; Evans, Gareth, and Bruce Grant. 1991. Australia’s Foreign Relations in the World of the 1990s. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10361140050002809

Keating challenged Hawke in an internal party-room ballot and won 56 to 51 on 19 December 1991 to become Prime Minister

‘Memo’, Evans to Hawke, 24 September 1990, NAA, A9737,92/050455 part 2.

Ravenhill, John. 2009. ‘East Asian Regionalism: Much Ado About Nothing?’, Review of International Studies 35(1), 215-235; Bisley, Nick. 2009. Building Asia’s Security. Oxon: Routledge DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210509008493

Quoted in Wesley, Michael. 2007. The Howard Paradox: Australian Diplomacy in Asia 1996-2006. Sydney: ABC Books, 8.

Deutchman, Iver, and Anne Ellison. 1999. ‘A Star is Born: The Rollercoaster Ride of Pauline Hanson in the News’. Media, Culture and Society 22(1), 36-37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/016344399021001002

Cablegram, Downer to Jakarta (Australian Embassy), 23 June 1998, NAA, A9737, CS: 92/051651, PART 17.

Greenlees, Don, and Robert Garran. 2002. Deliverance: The Inside Story of East Timor's Fight for Freedom. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 85–6.

David Goldsworthy, ‘East Timor’, in Edwards and Goldsworthy, Facing North, Vol. 2, 248–50.

Milner, Anthony. 1999. ‘The East Timor Crisis: Implications and Lessons’. Speech to Australian Institute of International Affairs, 26 November.

Chatterjee-Miller, Manjari. 2013. Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China. Stanford: Stanford University Press. While Australia was colonised by Britain, the colonisers came to represent a strong majority of its citizens (i.e. Australian aboriginals make up only about 2.5% of Australia’s population). Thus, unlike many other colonised peoples who regard themselves as ‘victims of empire’, Australians historically regarded themselves as ‘junior partners in Empire’ DOI: https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804786522.001.0001

Cotton, James. 2004. East Timor, Australia and Regional Order: Intervention and its Aftermath in Southeast Asia. Oxon: Routledge, 149.

Fred Benchley, ‘The Howard Defence Doctrine,’ The Bulletin, 28 September 1999.

Steve Lewis, ‘Howard Runs the Gauntlet of Asia,’ The Australian, 2 December 2002

Quoted in Kim Richard Nossal, ‘Looking Enviously Down Under? The Australian Experience and Canadian Foreign Policy,’ in Andrew F. Cooper and Dane Rowlands, eds., Canada Among Nations 2005: Split Images (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005).

Greg Sheridan, ‘PM Finds New Way to Lose Friends in Asia,’ The Australian, 7 December 2002; Tom Allard, ‘Malaysia hits back at PM’s Pre-Emptive Strike,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 September 2004

Allard, Tom. 2011. ‘Indonesia Wary of Strengthened Australia-US Defence Ties in Darwin’, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 November.

Bloomfield, Alan. 2016. ‘To Balance or to Bandwagon? Adjusting to China’s Rise During Australia’s Rudd-Gillard Era’. Pacific Review 29(2), 259-282. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2015.1013497

Murdoch, Scott. 2013. ‘Angry China Rebukes Julie Bishop Over East China Sea Dispute’. The Australian, 7 December.

Parameswaran, Prashanth. 2017. ‘The Truth About Joint Indonesia-Australia South China Sea Patrols’. The Diplomat, 25 February

Phillips, Andrew and Eric Hiariej. 2016. ‘Beyond the “Bandung Divide” Assessing the Scope and Limits of Australia-Indonesia Security Cooperation’. Australian Journal of International Affairs 70(4), 422-440. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2016.1153601

Keating, Paul. 2012. ‘The Keith Murdoch Oration: Asia in the New Order, Australia’s Diminishing Sphere of Influence’. Speech, State library of Victoria, 14 November.

Quoted in Dobell, Graeme. 2015. ‘Canberra Questions why Australia Should Join ASEAN’. The Strategist, 12 October. At https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/canberra-questions-why-australiashould-join-asean/. (Accessed 12 .10.2017)

Higgott, Richard, and Kim Richard Nossal. 1997. ‘The International Politics of Liminality: Relocating Australia in the Asia Pacific’, Australian Journal of Political Science 32(2), 170 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10361149750887

Huntington, Samuel. 1996. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. London: Simon & Schuster, 151-154.

He, ‘The Awkwardness’, 68-71; Beeson, Mark, and Hidetaka Yoshimatsu. 2007. ‘Asia’s odd men out: Australia, Japan, and the Politics of Regionalism’. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 7, 227- 250. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/irap/lcl008

Badescu, Christina, and Thomas Weiss. 2010. ‘Misrepresenting R2P and Advancing Norms: An Alternative Spiral?’. International Studies Perspectives 11, 362-363. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2010.00412.x

Murdoch, Lindsay. 2017. ‘Australia Softens Rohingya UN Resolution to Accusations of “whitewashing”’. Sydney Morning Herald, 28 September.

Bloomfield, Alan. 2016. India and the Responsibility to Protect. Farnham: Ashgate, chapters 5 and 6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315563268