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Assignment on Australia and Asia Relations

   

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Politics of Australia and Asia Relations

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4Engagement with Asia.................................................................................................................4Responsibility for foreign policy making (Australia)..................................................................5The English school......................................................................................................................6Realism........................................................................................................................................8Good Global Citizen (Labor tradition)........................................................................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTIONAustralia shares special proximity with Asia which is specifically applies to south Asia.Australia and India both were part of British Empire before independence and were members ofcommon wealth nations. Politics of Australia and Asia, cannot claim any particular advantageapart from energy and resources over Advanced western economies with regard to entrée inwider Asia. The discussion will outline three implication that is Engagement with Asia,Responsibility for foreign policy making, The English school, Realism and good global citizen tounderstand Australia Asia relations. MAIN BODYThe current issues of Australia-Asia relations are the struggle of Australia to keep Asian aspriority because Australia is preoccupied with issues of US and china. Further, Australia needs tooutline difference between objectives of Australian and Asian policy (Asialink and Milner,2018). Like struggle between major powers to support in cold war and long anxiety in Asiansregions. Engagement with AsiaHistorical introductionThe ideas of Australian related to Asia pacific region are historically inherent, the initialattempts to see Australia in the regional context can determined at the time of first world was. Apacific branch was established in the year 1917 within the prime minister’s department. ThePacific was a favoured term in the 1930s due to the reason that United states was a part of thepacific and it made Australia seem less exposed to Asia. Australia has been a part of the English-speaking world, it has established and maintained good relations mainly with the United statesand United Kingdom (Burton, and Wurfel, 2016). Though these relations have negativelyaffected in the last two decades. The end of cold war gave rise to the need of a more fluidenvironment in the Asia-pacific and therefore it enforced a gradual shift in the orientation ofAustralia’s foreign policy. The nation changed its focus on regional approach rather thancontinuing with global tactic. Realism and international relationsRealism can define strategic posture of Australia; the country has the twenty sixth biggestmilitary forces in the world if values in terms of firepower and 14th largest in terms ofexpenditure. In the south west pacific, Australia is a huge military power & important player in

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