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Australia as a Western society in the Orient faces a unique and paradoxical challenge in her relations with her close but unfamiliar neighbors of Southeast Asia. Explicitly dependent upon British foreign policy until the fall of Singapore in 1942, Australia has reluctantly and painfully begun the task of developing a policy of her own.
The Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia and many of the Pacific islands during the Second World War awakened Australia to the need to secure her own defenses and later, when Britain began a gradual withdrawal from Southeast Asia, Australia was thrown upon her own resources in dealing with her politically unstable and volatile neighbors and also with the larger Asian threat posed by Communist China. In Australia Faces Southeast Asia, Amry and MaryBelle Vandenbosch trace Australia’s attempts to reconcile her cultural heritage and her geography.
Amry Vandenbosch is professor emeritus of political science and former director of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky. He is coauthor of Toward World Order, Southeast Asia among the World Powers, and The Changing Face of Southeast Asia.
Like her husband, Mary Belle Vandenbosch is a graduate of the University of Chicago.
Publication Date
1967
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication
Lexington, KY
ISBN
9780813155340
eISBN
9780813164939
Keywords
Australia, Australian foreign policy
Disciplines
International Relations
Recommended Citation
Vandenbosch, Amry and Vandenbosch, Mary Belle, "Australia Faces Southeast Asia: The Emergence of a Foreign Policy" (1967). International Relations. 18.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_political_science_international_relations/18
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