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Article: AUSTRALIA'S SECURITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY.(Review)
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- New Zealand International Review
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- March 1, 1999
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AUSTRALIA'S SECURITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Editor: J. Mohan Malik
Published by: Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 1999, 284pp, A$29.95.
This collection of essays by a dozen scholars provides a very useful overview, analysis and critique of Australia's contemporary defence and security policy. The phrase `defence and security' is probably more apt than `security' alone, because of the balance in the text between traditional defence analysis and broader understandings of security in which defence is one of several inter-related components.
The dominant and recurring theme in the book is the oscillation in Australia's defence posture ...