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Australia in World Affairs 2016–2020
  • A Return to Great-Power Rivalry
  • Volume 13
  • Edited by Baogang He, David Hundt, Danielle Chubb
  • Published online:
    25 October 2024
    Print publication:
    13 June 2024
  • Between 2016 and 2020 Australia's foreign and security policies were significantly impacted by profound changes in geopolitics and geoeconomics, particularly as great power competition re-emerged between the United States and China. Australia in World Affairs 2016–2020: A Return to Great-Power Rivalry examines Australia's engagement on the international stage in light of these events. The thirteenth volume in the Australia in World Affairs series builds on the history of Australia's foreign policy covered in other volumes to identify patterns of continuity and change. It catalogues the key developments in this period of world history from an Australian perspective. Organised thematically, chapters cover Australia's foreign policy response to climate change, Australia's strengthened ties to the Indo–Pacific region, and its security interests in Southeast Asia. Australia's increasing security dependence on the US in an age of great-power rivalry is evident throughout.

  • 3 - Australian public opinion on world affairs

  • from Part I - The domestic politics of Australian foreign policy
  • Edited by Baogang He, Deakin University, Victoria, David Hundt, Deakin University, Victoria, Danielle Chubb, Deakin University, Victoria
  • Book:
    Australia in World Affairs 2016–2020
    Published online:
    25 October 2024
    Print publication:
    13 June 2024, pp 31-46

  • Summary

    The period from 2016 to 2020 was dominated by the rivalry between China and the United States, and by Australia’s relative position amid this rivalry. At the same time, a debate about how to combat climate change and its role in foreign affairs took place in the backdrop to this great-power rivalry. In this chapter we examine the interaction of political and public commentary around these three issues – the United States, China and climate change – with the insights available from polling data. We also examine how opinion on these issues fed into ongoing and longstanding debates. Our results suggest that there was both continuity and change in public opinion on international affairs between 2016 and 2020. Trust in the two great powers declined significantly. At the same time, support for Australia’s military alliance with the US remained strong. In terms of threat perceptions, concerns around climate change remained high, reflecting a lack of policy certainty and a failure to act decisively at the federal level. Accompanying this steady trend of high concern around climate-based security risks was a sharp increase in the perception of China as a potential threat to Australian security interests.

  • 4 - North Korean Human Rights during the Trump Administration

  • Edited by David P. Fields, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Mitchell B. Lerner, Ohio State University
  • Book:
    Divided America, Divided Korea
    Published online:
    15 March 2024
    Print publication:
    28 March 2024, pp 87-104

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the US approach to North Korean human rights issues since the 1980s and argues that while the situation was afforded greater rhetorical attention during the Trump administration, his approach did not in fact substantively differ from that of previous presidents. In his North Korea policy, Trump sought the headlines and did what he could to appear to be shaking things up. In practice, however, not much changed. He was subject to the same concerns and values and external forces as his predecessors. As a result, US policy toward North Korean human rights continued to follow a familiar pattern: Human rights issues are raised only when relations between the US and DPRK deteriorate.

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