James Curran
International Editor, Australian Financial Review, Professor of Modern History at Sydney University. Author of Australia’s China Odyssey (NewSouth Press,2022)
Appears in 10 Episodes
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...