From Alliance to Acquaintance: The Australian-American Security Relationship

摘要

This thesis explores the development of Australian concepts of national security,in the context of traditional and continuing psychological dependency upon its links of alliance to the West. The Government claims that Australia's policy of defense self-reliance within an alliance framework is a 'conceptual watershed' that has 'liberated' Australian foreign policy; but it is an old theme in defense policy. Australia still awaits a real revolution in its security concepts and sense of regional and world identity. ANZUS, symbol of Australia's ties to the western community, and the false impressions and expectations it creates, now acts more to inhibit than to assist Australia's future growth as a nation.