ANZUS reconsidered: the domestic politics of an alliance

Murray Goot; Peter King

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-08870-6_6

ANZUS reconsidered: the domestic politics of an alliance

Murray Goot, Peter King

Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations

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Abstract

To talk of a ‘crisis’ in Australian-American relations is to exaggerate the strains that domestic and international pressures have put on the alliance.1 None the less, these pressures are now greater than they have ever been. Australia has a Labor Government committed to ANZUS; a Labor Party deeply divided over the nuclear issue; American installations that loom ever larger in United States’ nuclear-based strategic thinking; a range of groups — rural, Labor, Democrat — that have started to see the bases as possible bargaining chips in relation to US trade; and an electorate whose increasing apprehension of nuclear war is being registered, at the margin, in support for peace rallies and peace candidates.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ANZUS in crisis
Subtitle of host publication	alliance management in international affairs
Editors	Jacob Bercovitch
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Macmillan Press
Pages	105-135
Number of pages	31
ISBN (Electronic)	9781349088706
ISBN (Print)	9781349088720
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08870-6_6
Publication status	Published - 1988

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