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Australia in International Politics: An Introduction to Australian foreign policy
No full textA revised edition of a widely used introduction to Australian foreign policy. It explains Australia's increasingly close connections to the rest of the world, in defence, trade, financial markets, aid, human rights and its response to refugees.
The world changed for Australia after the terrorist attacks on the US on September 11, 2001 and the Bali bombings of 2002. Security became the dominant theme of Australian foreign policy. Australian military forces remained in Afghanistan years later, opposing the terrorist threat of the Taliban, while hundreds of Australian troops and police worked with public servants to build the state in Asia-Pacific countries such as East Timor and Solomon Islands. The world changed for Australia, too, when the global financial crisis of September 2008 threatened another Great Depression. Meantime the international community made slow progress on measures to stem climate change, potentially Australia's largest security threat.
In a newly revised and updated edition, Australia in International Politics shows how the nation is responding to these challenges. The book describes how Australian foreign policy has evolved since Federation and how it is made. It examines Australia's part in the United Nations, humanitarian intervention and peacekeeping. It analyses defence policy and nuclear arms control. It explains why Australia survived the global financial crisis and why the G20 has become the leading institution of global economic governance. It charts the course of Australia's climate change diplomacy, the growth of Australia's foreign aid, human rights in foreign relations and the rise of China as a great power
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
'Perspectiva de los principales acontecimientos políticos en Pacífico en 2010
No full textThis article reviews the annual news of the Pacific countries and territories, characterized by their cultural, ethnic and political diversity. A first section is dedicated to the two great giants of the area, Australia (which saw the departure of its charismatic Prime Minister Kevin Rudd) and New Zealand, where John Key had to weather the financial crisis and give his support to those affected by the earthquake. of Christchurch. Subsequently, the author analyzes in depth the political game in Papua New Guinea, which although in appearance is stable, in his opinion is the most ungovernable country in the region. The chronicle extends to Solomon, Vanuatu and Fiji, the latter still marked by authoritarian drift after the 2006 military coup led by General Baininarama and increasing pressure on the media. Later, the article summarizes the situation in Tonga (where the monarchy and the nobility are gradually giving way to the weight of the democratic opposition), the Bougainville region (which is advancing in its autonomy), Tuvalu, Nauru, Cook Islands, New Caledonia, Polynesia French (the latter, overseas territories of an extra-regional power - France - that serve to exemplify a type of common relationship in the area). As a conclusion to the text, the author underlines the growing involvement of the People's Republic of China in the "oceanic continent" which, after the end of its diplomatic competition with Taiwan, aspires to become the great pole of attraction for governments that manage dispersed populations and scarce resources. the Bougainville region (which is advancing in its autonomy), Tuvalu, Nauru, Cook Islands, New Caledonia, French Polynesia (the latter, overseas territories of an extra-regional power - France - that serve to exemplify a type of common relationship in the area ). In conclusion to the text, the author underlines the growing involvement of the People's Republic of China in the "oceanic continent" which, after the end of its diplomatic competition with Taiwan, aspires to become the great pole of attraction for governments that manage dispersed populations and scarce resources. the Bougainville region (which is advancing in its autonomy), Tuvalu, Nauru, Cook Islands, New Caledonia, French Polynesia (the latter, overseas territories of an extra-regional power - France - that serve to exemplify a type of common relationship in the area ). In conclusion to the text, the author underlines the growing involvement of the People's Republic of China in the "oceanic continent" which, after the end of its diplomatic competition with Taiwan, aspires to become the great pole of attraction for governments that manage dispersed populations and scarce resources
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