Facing Asia
A History of the Colombo Plan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19920764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Oakman (0009-0000-2624-5282, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 323 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Facing Asia (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | ANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.26530/oapen_459231 |
| OpenAlex | W1610301858 |
| ISBN | 9781921666933 |
| Open Library | OL28360153M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
‘No nation can escape its geography’, warned Percy Spender, Australia’s Minister for External Affairs, in 1950. With the immediate turmoil of World War II over, communism and decolonisation had ended any possibility that Asia could continue to be ignored by Australia. In the early 1950s, Australia embarked on its most ambitious attempt to engage with Asia: the Colombo Plan. This book examines the public and private agendas behind Australia’s foreign aid diplomacy and reveals the strategic, political and cultural aims that drove the Colombo Plan. It examines the legacy of WWII, how foreign aid was seen as crucial to achieving regional security, how the plan was sold to Australian and Asian audiences, and the changing nature of Australia’s relationship with Britain and the United States. Above all this is the question of how Australia sought to project itself into the region, and how Asia was introduced into the Australian consciousness. In answering these questions, this book tells the story of how an insular society, deeply scarred by the turbulence of war, chose to face its regional future
Archaeology · Geography · Plan (archaeology) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Global Political and Social Dynamics · History · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Anthropology · Australian Economic assistance · Australian studies · Economic assistance · Political aspects · Political aspects of Economic assistance · Politics · Relations · Social aspects · Social aspects of Economic assistance · Southeast asia
Internationalising Arts, Gaining Visibility
Politics of a Different Kind
Myth and Misrepresentation in Australian Foreign Policy
Watching Indian Movies in Australia
A Kangaroo and Bradman”
Student sojourners
So much pioneering
Government Propaganda in the 1950s
John Burton versus international relations
Australia’s use of international education as public diplomacy in China
Regional goodwill, sensibly priced
Cast the net a little wider
Mobility, formation and development of the academic profession in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in East and South East Asia
Introduction
To Learn but Not Live Together? The Early History of the University of British Columbia’s International House
Enduring Connections
Australia, the Asia-Pacific and the social sciences
Cold War and Social Protection in Burma and Malaysia
Anzus and the Early Cold War
Theorizing student mobility in an era of globalization
The Impact of a Global Mobility Program
Crises in international education, and government responses
Pedagogical offensives
Navigating anxieties
DAC is dead? Implications for teaching development studies
Higher education student finance between China and Australia
Colonial legacies and the British geological survey in cold war South Asia
White Australia’s Student Exception
From Colonialism to International Aid
Shaping “Reach Out, Build Up, Send Back”
The Social Sciences in the Asian Century
Moving toward decoloniality in short-term study abroad under New Colombo
| Citations per year | 1.52 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |