Accession Number:

ADA247337

Title:

From Alliance to Acquaintance: The Australian-American Security Relationship

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Taylor, Mark J.

Report Date:

1991-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

374.0

Abstract:

This thesis explores the development of Australian concepts of national security, in the context of traditional and continuing psychological dependency upon its links of alliance to the West. The Government claims that Australias policy of defence self-reliance within an alliance framework is a conceptual watershed conceptual watershed that has liberated Australian foreign policy but it is an old theme in defence policy. Australia still awaits a real revolution in its security concepts and sense of regional and world identity. ANZUS, symbol of Australias ties to the western community, and the false impressions and expectations it creates, now acts more to inhibit than to assist Australias future growth as a nation.

Descriptors:

• *FOREIGN POLICY
• POLICIES
• NATIONAL SECURITY
• COMMUNITIES
• SECURITY
• THESES
• WATERSHEDS
• AUSTRALIA
• PSYCHOLOGY

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science
• Humanities and History
• Geography
• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE