Making Australian Foreign Policy

Discusses the processes, institutions, actors and calculations involved in foreign policy making in Australia. Looks at the role of the government departments and intelligence organisations that support the government's policy-making, and the thinking of the people who make it, in more detail than ever before. It draws on an extensive survey of how Australian foreign affairs officials think about the world. This fully revised and updated edition includes four new chapters on Australia's security, prosperity, values and its place in the world. It includes two new case studies covering the negotiation of the US-Australia free trade agreement and Australia's regional mission to the Solomon Islands.

Preface to first edition; Preface to second edition; 1. Introduction; 2. Conceiving foreign policy; 3. The policy process; Case study: the Cambodia Peace Settlement; 4. The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy; 5. The executive; Case study: Developing Regional Architecture - The APEC Leaders' Meetings; 6. The overseas network; 7. The Australian Intelligence Community; 8. The domestic landscape; Case study: The Bali Bombings: Foreign Policy Comes Home; 9. The International Policy Landscape; 10. Australia's Place in the World; Case study: The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands; 11. Australia's security; 12. Australia's Prosperity; Case study: the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement; 13. Values and Australian foreign policy; 14. Conclusion: the end of foreign policy?; Appendix; Glossary; Index.

Discusses the processes, institutions, actors and calculations involved in foreign policy making in Australia. Fully revised and updated, it includes four new chapters and two extra case studies on the US-Australia free trade agreement and Australia's regional mission to the Solomon Islands.

Allan Gyngell has had a long career in making, advising on and implementing Australian foreign policy. He headed the International Division of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and has been posted to many countries since joining the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1969. He was foreign policy adviser to former Prime Minister Paul Keating from 1993 until 1996. He is Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
Michael Wesley is a Professor of International Relations and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute, at Griffith University.