The Australia-ASEAN Dialogue: Tracing 40 Years of Partnership [Hardcover]

This book examines the Australia-ASEAN Dialogue Partnership since its inception in 1974 and looks at the networks of engagement that have shaped relations across three areas: regionalism, non-traditional security, and economic engagement.Foreword; The Hon Julie Bishop, Minister for Foreign Affairs Introduction; Sally Percival Wood and Baogang He AUSTRALIA IN ASIAN REGIONALISM 1. Australia and ASEAN: A Marriage of Convenience?; Sally Percival Wood 2. Hobnobbing with Giants: Australia's Approaches to Asian Regionalism; See Seng Tan 3. The East Asia Summit: Navigating ASEAN Multilateralism; Avery Poole NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES 4. Timor-Leste: From INTERFET to ASEAN; Michael Leach and Sally Percival Wood 5. Australia-ASEAN's Counter-Terrorism Cooperation: A Paradigm Shift or Business as Usual?; Math Noortmann 6. Australia, ASEAN, and Forced Migration in Asia; Amy Nethery ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS  OLD AND NEW 7. Australia's Economic Relations with ASEAN: Learning to Deal with the Evolving Organization; Jiro Okamoto 8. Richer Relations? Four Decades of ASEAN-Australia Relations in Higher Education; Anthony Welch 9. Making a Sale versus Making it Safe: Prospects for ASEAN-Australia Nuclear Energy Cooperation; Sofiah Jamil and Lina Gong 10. The Australia-ASEAN AgriFood Opportunity; Claudine Ogilvie 11. Islamic Banking and Finance in Southeast Asia: Can Australia Find a Niche?; Imran Lum Afterword; Anthony Milner

'While ASEAN has held a range of dialogues with major and middle powers over the years, its partnership with Australia has gone from strength to strength, and has become an enduring and maturing axis that transcends geography for Australia and offers middle-power leveraging for ASEAN, while harmonizing and promoting mutual interests on both sides. This edited book weaves a persuasive tapestry of mutual discovery between Australia and ASEAN from their modest and uncertain origins four decades ago to current challenges and opportunities going forwardl¸