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Anti-Americanism as a Force in Australian Foreign Policy : = The Vietnam War and Australia's Shift from America to Southeast Asia.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Anti-Americanism as a Force in Australian Foreign Policy :/
Reminder of title:	The Vietnam War and Australia's Shift from America to Southeast Asia.
Author:	Melody, Philippe-Alexis Young.
Description:	1 online resource (38 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International84-11.
Subject:	Asian history. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379447724

Anti-Americanism as a Force in Australian Foreign Policy : = The Vietnam War and Australia's Shift from America to Southeast Asia.
Melody, Philippe-Alexis Young.

Anti-Americanism as a Force in Australian Foreign Policy :The Vietnam War and Australia's Shift from America to Southeast Asia. - 1 online resource (38 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgetown University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Previous accounts of Australia's foreign relations have emphasized the continuity and robustness of the alliance with the United States. This article challenges that convention by documenting the intensification of pre-existing but latent anti-Americanism over the course of the Second Indochina War (1955-1975). It identifies American power and a perceived gap in values and interests as the preeminent sources of anti-Americanism. It argues that Australian planners originally conceived of Australia's participation in the war (1965-1972) as in their own national security, as it would help to keep the US engaged in Southeast Asia as part of Australia's forward defense policy. However, as the war's strategic logic became associated with the US alliance, it engendered a surge in anti-Americanism among the Australian public due to press coverage of the war souring following the Tet Offensive in 1968 and the release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Meanwhile, negative depictions of the Nixon administration in the media and the chaos of a divided America widened the perceived chasm of values between the US and Australia. This article uses the period as a historical case study to demonstrate that anti-Americanism can rupture relations between the US and a remarkably close ally. It shows that anti-Americanism helped to bring the Australian Labor Party under Gough Whitlam (1972-1975) to power, which caused Canberra to tilt from the Anglosphere to Southeast Asia for the first time. It concludes that since then anti-Americanism has become more pronounced in Australian domestic politics and less pronounced in foreign policy. Nonetheless, it can still push Australia away from America diplomatically. Its findings have implications for scholarship on the United States-Australia alliance, Australia-Asia relations, and the role of public opinion in foreign policy.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379447724Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Asian history.
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