Australian foreign policy is traditionally hitched to the US – but the rise of China requires a middle path for a middle power
- Written by: Mark Beeson, Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
Few nation-states have been shaped by their underlying physical geography and location in the world quite as much as Australia.
Since notional foreign policy independence was uneasily embraced during the second world war, Australia’s policymaking elites have had trouble deciding whether it was a curse or a blessing to be in possession of an...
