The Australian School Of International Relations (the Palgrave Macmillan History Of International Thought)

This book offers the first comprehensive account of the emergence of the IR discipline in Australia. Initially influenced by British ideas, the first generation of Australian international relations practitioners demonstrated in their work a strong awareness of the unique local conditions to which their theorizing should respond. "The Australian School of International Relations challenges the widely-held misconception that there was little significance in Australian international relations thinking prior to 1960. Cotton considers and expounds the ideas of the eight international thinkers who were principal members of the early Australian 'school' of international relations that occurred from 1920-1960. Each of the eight thinkers analyzed in this work helped initiate the formal academic study of international relations through their contributions to policy-making, participating in a complex network of personal and professional relationships. Comprehensive and accessible, The Australian School of International Relations is a valuable contribution to the fields of international relations and intellectual history."--Publisher's website Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-5 The Institutional Setting....Pages 7-20 W. Harrison Moore: Imperialism and Internationalism....Pages 21-47 Frederic Eggleston: The Empire and the Pacific....Pages 49-72 A. C. V. Melbourne: The Limits of Early Australian School Nationalism....Pages 73-93 H. Duncan Hall: Theorizing the Commonwealth....Pages 95-127 W. K. Hancock: The Commonwealth and World Government....Pages 129-149 Fred Alexander: The Duty of Public Education....Pages 151-180 W. Macmahon Ball: A Focus on Asia....Pages 181-207 Walter Crocker: The Afro-Asian Challenge to the International System....Pages 209-235 An Australian School of International Relations....Pages 237-251 Back Matter....Pages 253-303