Making Australian Foreign Policy

✍ Scribed by Allan Gyngell, Michael Wesley

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Outlining practical and theoretical approaches in the making of Australian foreign policy, this text analyzes the processes, structures and calculations involved in policy initiation in an increasingly tense and dangerous international environment. Revealing changes caused by the impact of the various manifestations of globalization, this book is essential for students of Australian foreign policy. It will also be of interest to anyone concerned with foreign policy, diplomacy and international relations.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
CHAPTER 1 Introduction......Page 13
Academics and practitioners: The two worlds of foreign policy......Page 19
Australia sui generis......Page 21
Plan of the book......Page 25
Notes......Page 27
CHAPTER 2 Conceiving Foreign Policy......Page 29
The difficulties of foreign policy analysis......Page 30
Defining foreign policy......Page 32
The nature of foreign policy making......Page 33
The strategic level......Page 37
The contextual level......Page 40
The organisational level......Page 42
The operational level......Page 45
Conclusion......Page 47
Notes......Page 48
CHAPTER 3 The Policy Process......Page 51
Gauging involvement and influence......Page 52
Institutional roles......Page 54
Hierarcy......Page 57
Elected and appointed officials......Page 58
Modes of communication......Page 62
Conclusion......Page 67
Notes......Page 68
CHAPTER 4 The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy......Page 70
History and evolution......Page 72
Departmental structures......Page 74
What DFAT does......Page 76
Organisational routines......Page 80
DFAT’s staff......Page 82
Departmental culture......Page 83
The world view of DFAT officers......Page 85
The rest of the bureaucracy......Page 89
Bureaucratic coordination: The role of PM&C......Page 94
Notes......Page 97
CASE STUDY The Cambodia Peace Settlement......Page 100
Notes......Page 106
CHAPTER 5 The Executive......Page 108
The Prime Minister......Page 109
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Trade......Page 114
Cabinet and foreign policy......Page 118
Crisis handling......Page 120
The ministerial offices......Page 121
Conclusion......Page 123
Notes......Page 124
CASE STUDY Developing Regional Architecture: The APEC Leaders' Meetings......Page 126
Notes......Page 132
CHAPTER 6 The Overseas Network......Page 133
The purpose of the posts......Page 134
Australia’s overseas representation......Page 136
The work of the posts......Page 138
Information......Page 139
Reporting......Page 140
Advocacy......Page 141
Conclusion......Page 143
Notes......Page 144
CHAPTER 7 The Australian Intelligence Community......Page 145
Defence Signals Directorate......Page 148
Australian Secret Intelligence Service......Page 150
Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation......Page 152
The analytical agencies......Page 153
Office of National Assessments......Page 154
Accountability and oversight......Page 156
Coordination and tasking......Page 159
Change and challenges......Page 162
Intelligence and foreign policy......Page 164
Notes......Page 169
CASE STUDY The Bali Bombings: Foreign Policy Comes Home......Page 173
Notes......Page 182
CHAPTER 8 The Domestic Landscape......Page 183
The influence of Australian political institutions......Page 184
Parliament......Page 185
Political parties......Page 190
The states and territories......Page 192
Business groups and foreign policy......Page 194
The media and foreign policy making......Page 196
Public opinion and foreign policy......Page 203
Foreign policy issue publics......Page 208
Notes......Page 214
CHAPTER 9 The International Policy Landscape......Page 218
The conceptual ordering of world politics......Page 219
Shifts in global polarity and power hierarcies......Page 225
Patterns of alignment and enmity......Page 228
New actors in global politics......Page 229
Trends affecting world politics......Page 236
Foreign policy events......Page 241
Conclusion......Page 243
Notes......Page 244
CHPATER 10 Conclusion: The End of Foreign Policy?......Page 247
Globalisation and the institutions of foreign policy making......Page 248
The challenges of globalisation......Page 251
Diffusion......Page 252
Enmeshment......Page 253
Transformation......Page 254
Australian foreign policy making: Rising to the challenge?......Page 256
The diversification of foreign policy......Page 257
Domestic politics......Page 258
The information revolution......Page 261
Routinisation......Page 262
Resource pressures......Page 264
Conclusion......Page 265
Notes......Page 269
APPENDIX The Perceptions of Australia’s Foreign Policy Makers......Page 272
Glossary......Page 290
Index......Page 294