Australia and France's Mutual Empowerment Middle Powers' Strategies for Pacific and Global Challenges /

• Main Author: Soyez, Paul (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations
• Subjects: Diplomacy.; Globalization.; Europe-Politics and government.; Asia-Politics and government.; International organization.; Political economy.; European Politics.; Asian Politics.; International Organization.; International Political Economy.

How did France and Australia develop a deep strategic partnership, when only about two decades ago, a group of Australians bombed the French consulate in Perth to protest against French nuclear testing in the Pacific? Which interests, which personalities, which elements of the global context have le...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Chapter 2 - Methodological and theoretical frameworks
• Chapter 3 - Economic diplomacy, an innovative force of the French-Australian relationship
• Chapter 4 - Threatening Australia's backyard? French-Australian tensions on nuclear policies and their resolution
• Chapter 5 - Global security, central objective of the bilateral partnership
• Chapter 6 - New Caledonia, cornerstone of an ambiguous French-Australian relationship
• Chapter 7 - An appeased neighbourhood: French-Australian cooperation in the South Pacific region
• Chapter 8 - Conclusion. .