Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables, Figures and Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Middle Power Dreaming: Australian Foreign Policy during the Rudd–Gillard Governments
- 2 The Howard–Downer Legacy: Global Deputy, Regional Sheriff
- 3 Back from the Brink: Australia and the Global Economy 2006–10
- 4 Australia–America 2006–2010: Waiting for Obama
- 5 Australia and China: The Challenges to Forging a ‘True Friendship’
- 6 Australia and Japan: Mobilising the Bilateral Relationship
- 7 Australia and Europe
- 8 Australia’s Strategic and Commercial Engagement with South Asia under Kevin Rudd: The Paradoxes
- 9 Australia, the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste
- 10 Progress and Limits in Regional Cooperation: Australia and Southeast Asia
- 11 Australian Foreign Policy towards Africa
- 12 Plus Ça Change? The Coalition, Labor and the Challenges of Environmental Foreign Policy
- 13 The Australia 2020 Summit as an Experiment in Foreign Policy-making
- 14 Defence and Security
- 15 Australia’s Foreign Policy Machinery
- 16 Regional, Alliance and Global Priorities of the Rudd–Gillard Governments
- References
- Index
12 - Plus Ça Change? The Coalition, Labor and the Challenges of Environmental Foreign Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables, Figures and Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Middle Power Dreaming: Australian Foreign Policy during the Rudd–Gillard Governments
- 2 The Howard–Downer Legacy: Global Deputy, Regional Sheriff
- 3 Back from the Brink: Australia and the Global Economy 2006–10
- 4 Australia–America 2006–2010: Waiting for Obama
- 5 Australia and China: The Challenges to Forging a ‘True Friendship’
- 6 Australia and Japan: Mobilising the Bilateral Relationship
- 7 Australia and Europe
- 8 Australia’s Strategic and Commercial Engagement with South Asia under Kevin Rudd: The Paradoxes
- 9 Australia, the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste
- 10 Progress and Limits in Regional Cooperation: Australia and Southeast Asia
- 11 Australian Foreign Policy towards Africa
- 12 Plus Ça Change? The Coalition, Labor and the Challenges of Environmental Foreign Policy
- 13 The Australia 2020 Summit as an Experiment in Foreign Policy-making
- 14 Defence and Security
- 15 Australia’s Foreign Policy Machinery
- 16 Regional, Alliance and Global Priorities of the Rudd–Gillard Governments
- References
- Index
Summary
When the Australia Labor Party (led at the time by Kevin Rudd) was elected to federal office in November 2007, almost two years into the period under review, many commentators anticipated a substantial and substantive change in Australia’s foreign environmental policy. The change in rhetoric before and after November 2007 was, indeed, pronounced. These were governments with apparently very different world views: Labor articulating an internationalist and multilateralist model of international relations and global governance, and the Coalition eschewing ‘ideology’ and idealism in favour of what it saw as a hard-headed realism and a willingness to walk away from multilateral opportunities that did not deliver the outcomes they wanted.
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- Australia in World Affairs 2006–2010Middle Power Dreaming, pp. 179 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressFirst published in: 2024