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Australian Federal Police as unconventional diplomats: the RAMSI case
No full textThe case of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and it’s International Deployment Group is a sound example of the symbiotic relationship between ‘old’ and ‘new’ diplomacy
Australian Defence Force Transformation
No full textAs Australia's role in the Asia-Pacific security environment becomes more complex, there is a corrective need for its defense forces to evolve. This case employs the recent transformation of the Australian Defense Force (ADF) to validate what is called a ‘significant revolution in Military Affairs.’ The ADF has embraced change, primarily through its Future Warfare Concept (FWC) and the 2009 defense white paper of the Rudd Labor government
The Pariah State of International Society: North Korea
No full textAn examination of North Korea’s recent international behaviour illustrates that the ‘Hermit Kingdom' routinely violates the standards expected of a responsible member of our international society of states
Propaganda or Diplomacy? ‘Selling’ Brand Australia
No full textThis examination of Australia’s Public Diplomacy experience shows that the lines between propaganda and public diplomacy are easily blurred
Rebranding China on the Olympic Stage
No full textThis case study critiques China’s attempts to internationally rebrand itself through the 2008 Beijing Olympics. With the global spotlight shining squarely on Beijing, the Chinese government saw the games as a once in a lifetime opportunity to promote an image of a new, 21st-century China
Push for Independence: The West Papuan Nation
No full textThe Papuan Island has long been subject to distant rule. In the nineteenth century, it drew rapacious attention from resource hungry European colonisers including Germany, Britain, Japan and The Netherlands. In 1975, the eastern half of the island become the independent nation of Papua New Guinea. The fate of the western half remains disputed. The Dutch ruled Western Papua until 1963, eventually ceding their sovereignty to Indonesia. Since then, the territory has been subject to the distant and occasionally tyrannical rule of the Indonesian Government. Score of West Papuan continue to exert claims for an independent West Papuan nation. These nationalists are driven by a sense of historical injustice, poor Indonesian governance, a feeling of cultural and racial otherness, human rights abuses and manipulation on the part of the Indonesian security forces
Open for Business: Australian Uranium for Sale!
No full textFossil fuels negatively contribute to global warming and climate change. This case study argues that while the short-term impact of nuclear energy is more positive, it is no less controversial in terms of climate change
The Plight of the Kimberley: Jobs or Culture?
No full textThis case focusses on the ongoing tussle between the West Australian Government, non-governmental organisations, businesses, and indigenous groups over the future of the unique Kimberley region in the North West of Australia. Recent multilateral agreements to develop the region as a major liquid natural gas (LNG) hub suggest that the area's abundant natural and cultural wonders are under threat
Australian Defence Force Transformation: The Hardened and Networked Army
No full textIn the fired of International Relations there exists controversy over whether or not a Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) is occurring. This case employs the recent transformation of the Australian Defence Force to validate the ‘revolution’ argument. As Australia's role in the Asia Pacific security environment grows, there is a correlative need for its military to evolve. The ADF has embraced change, primarily through its Future Warfighting Concept (FWC) and the doctrine of a Hardened and Networked Army (HNA).<br/
What postcolonial theory doesn't say
No full textThis book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological assumptions of its dominant formations. It emerges, however, from an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment to its basic premise: namely, that literature and culture are fundamental to the response to structures of colonial and imperial domination. To a certain extent, postcolonial theory is a victim of its own success, not least because of the institutionalization of the insights that it has enabled. Now that these insights no longer seem new, it is hard to know what the field should address beyond its general commitments. Yet the renewal of popular anti-imperial energies across the globe provides an important opportunity to reassert the political and theoretical value of the postcolonial as a comparative, interdisciplinary, and oppositional paradigm. This collection makes a claim for what postcolonial theory can say through the work of scholars articulating what it still cannot or will not say. It explores ideas that a more aesthetically sophisticated postcolonial theory might be able to address, focusing on questions of visibility, performance, and literariness. Contributors highlight some of the shortcomings of current postcolonial theory in relation to contemporary political developments such as Zimbabwean land reform, postcommunism, and the economic rise of Asia. Finally, they address the disciplinary, geographical, and methodological exclusions from postcolonial studies through a detailed focus on new disciplinary directions (management studies, international relations, disaster studies), overlooked locations and perspectives (Palestine, Weimar Germany, the commons), and the necessity of materialist analysis for understanding both the contemporary world and world literary systems.</p
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