Australia's 'Wars of Globalism' White Paper

摘要

There is little optimism in the strategic outlooks prepared by the Australian Department of Defence in recent years. Terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), fragile and failed states, climate change and the rise of China as a major global power have all combined to create a dangerous and unpredictable world, according to the Australian strategists. Further, the economic and social changes of globalism have brought many advantages to Australia and its geostrategic region of interest. But this economic interconnecting and shrinking of global communications has also overcome Australia's greatest traditional defensive resource: its isolation.rnConfounding many of the planned responses for this strategic pessimism has been the significant loss to Government revenues thanks to the global recession caused by the ongoing global financial crisis. While the Australian financial system was mostly immune to the failures experienced around the world, the inter-connectedness of globalism has seen a near recession in economic growth and corresponding massive Government expenditure to stimulate the economy.