Howard, Downer and the Liberals' realist tradition Lowe, David and Smith, Gary 2005, Howard, Downer and the Liberals' realist tradition, Australian journal of politics and history, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 459-472, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2005.0387a.x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Howard, Downer and the Liberals' realist tradition Author(s) Lowe, David orcid.org/0000-0003-3332-483X Smith, Gary Journal name Australian journal of politics and history Volume number 51 Issue number 3 Start page 459 End page 472 Total pages 14 p. Publisher University of Queensland Press Place of publication Brisbane, Qld. Publication date 2005-09-15 ISSN 0004-9522 1467-8497 Summary The successive Howard Governments sought not only to make foreign policy in response to new regional and global agendas, but to respond to and to seek to manage new forms of electoral challenge with new forms of nationalism. This has resulted in a set of important departures from the major Liberal tradition in international affairs, the claim to a realist approach to foreign policy, and has led to the need to manage the consequences of those departures. The boundary that realism sought to draw between the domestic and international politics, as the spheres of values and interests respectively, became increasingly blurred. In relations with the Asian region the expression of strong domestic (nationalist and internationalist) agendas led initially to distancing from Asian engagement. However, from 2002, a more realist-focused external policy led to new forms of state to state re-engagement in pursuit of national interests. In the commitment to military operations in Iraq, the Anzac legend is interpreted to supply nationalist legitimation which would not normally be required for wars fought for realist (i.e. defensive) reasons. A future Liberal prime minister would lack Howard's touch here. In the debate in the Liberal Party over defence doctrine, an attempt by the Defence Minister to reformulate the realist doctrine of Defence of Australia into an expeditionary construct was rejected. Language eng DOI 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2005.0387a.x Field of Research 210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2008, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd. Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30003250 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of History, Heritage and Society Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Link to full-text (open access)   Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 03 Feb 2009, 09:21:39 EST Mon, 15 Jun 2009, 14:04:50 EST Thu, 27 May 2010, 11:58:16 EST Thu, 27 May 2010, 12:09:05 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 23:14:38 EST Wed, 30 Sep 2020, 03:35:41 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 7 times in TR Web of Science Cited 13 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1258 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 08:47:42 EST

Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au.