Australia Faces Southeast Asia: The Emergence of a Foreign Policy by Amry Vandenbosch and Mary Belle Vandenbosch

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Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external sticker. Stamps, partial date due slip and borrower card pocket on inside pages. Wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has creasing at top and tail edges and at spine. Now enclosed with protective plastic cover. Binding is still very good.

Australia, a Western society in the Orient, faces a unique and paradoxical challenge in her relations with her close but unfamiliar neighbours of Southeast Asia.

Explicitly dependent upon British foreign policy until the fall of Singapore in 1942, Australia has reluctantly and painfully begun developing a policy of her own. The Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia and many Pacific islands during the Second World War awakened Australia's need to secure its defences. Later, when Britain gradually withdrew from Southeast Asia, Australia was thrown upon its own. (book flap)