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Fear of Security - Australia's invasion Anxiety
By: Anthony Burke (472/35759)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (ISBN:978-0-521-71427-3)
Security has rarely been such a dominant and controversial preoccupation of Australian politics as it has over the last decade. In this authoritative book. Anthony Burke argues that security has dominated and distorted Australia's foreign policy and national life, from Cook's first voyage to the Tampa crisis. 9/11 and Iraq. Whether in the Great War, Vietnam or the treatment of asylum seekers, Anthony Burke a shows that Australia's security has been bought with the insecurity and suffering of others. Against this corrosive tradition, he offers a new - cosmopolitan and non-coercive - model of national existence and responsibility
At once a deep historical survey and an argument with its society. Fear of Security is a landmark account of how Australia relates to itself, its region and the world. Turning powerful academic and political orthodoxies on their heads, it is essential reading for those concerned with the burning questions that face Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
March 2008
