Lecture 2: Introducing Australia, Part I

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Lecture 2 Introducing Australia, Part I

• Australia is one of the most secure countries in
  the world, Paul Dibb, 1986
• We need first to accept that security has no
  single, ultimate truth, and to see in these
  contradictions an opening for a new political
  practice and imagination of life, Anthony Burke,
  2002.

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Approaching Foreign Policy

• What is Foreign Policy?
• Foreign Policy and the Realist Tradition
• Statism, Anarchy, Survival, Military Power
• Foreign Policy division between internal and
  external

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The Realist Tradition in Australia

• The Realities Problem
• Size
• Geography
• Population
• The Realist Solution
• Threat
• Protector
• Alliance

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Critiques of the Realist Tradition

• Non-state (and non-military) Threats
• Non-state (and non-military) Solutions
• State violence on their own citizens
• The Problem with Problem Solving Theories
• Objective Reality Vs Subjective
  Interpretation

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Critical approaches to AFP

• The Secure Australia Project
• What is security?
• Security against what?
• Security for whom?
• Security How?
• Security by Whom?