James Curran

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S1 E10 Apr 25, 2024

Comprehensive Engagement with Asia

The retreat of Britain and America from the region at the end of the East Asian Cold War caused Australia to redefine itself in relation to Britain and to reassess it ...

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S1 E9 Apr 18, 2024

New Maturity

 This episode explores how in response to changes in America’s East Asia policy and the course of the Vietnam war, Australian governments, particularly that of Labor P...

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S1 E8 Apr 11, 2024

The Great Powers retreat from Asia

Now comes the reassessment. In this episode, I begin to explore the breakdown of the bi-polar ideological world and the decision of Australia’s ‘Great and Powerful Fri...

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S1 E7 Apr 04, 2024

Indonesia’s Confrontation of Malaysia and war in Vietnam

Following on from the previous episode, this episode looks at the Indonesian Confrontation with Malaysia over the future of the British territories in Borneo, Sarawak ...

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S1 E6 Mar 28, 2024

The rise of Asian nationalism

This episode is about Australia and the National Independence movements in Southeast Asian region, the issue which above all dominated Australian defence and foreign p...

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S1 E5 Mar 21, 2024

Australia and the coming of the Cold War

This episode explores how Australia responded to the two great defining developments which dominated its international environment from the end of World War Two until ...

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S1 E4 Mar 14, 2024

Australia’s distinctive interests in a British World

Following on from the last episode,  the tensions over Britishness that arose for Australia from geopolitics, from the tension arising from on the one hand belonging t...

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S1 E3 Mar 07, 2024

British Race Patriotism and White Australia

This episode provides a historical context to Australian foreign policy and in particular, how Australians responded to the age of nationalism. The form of Britishness...

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S1 E2 Feb 29, 2024

The world in which Australia finds itself

This episode explores the origins of the world system and the key concepts which policy-makers and scholars use to explain its nature, and the forces which shape it, c...

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S1 E1 Feb 22, 2024

Introduction

How has Australia thought about and acted in the world beyond its shores?  What are the the policies it has shaped, pursued and enacted to make sense of the world and ...