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By Philomena Murray
It is a e-book approximately clash: clash among a rustic with limits to its overseas influence—Australia—and a brand new overseas actor with huge, immense presence at the international stage—the eu Union.
Australians usually understand the ecu as a monolithic, destructive and obstructionist bloc, unleashing laws and protectionism upon the realm. but Australia's engagement with the european is easily prior to Australian public opinion approximately Europe. those alterations spring not just from adjustments in Australia, yet from Europe's increasing function in exchange and politics.
In this energetic exam of Australia's courting with the more and more robust european, Professor Philomena Murray presents a clean and entire point of view on politics and exchange, previous safety and new safeguard. She significantly assesses how engagement among the european and Australia has constructed over the last few decades—from slim issues with agricultural alternate to the more moderen demanding situations of terrorism. Murray argues that the realisation of the connection will impact Australia's position either during this sector and the realm.
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It has been argued that Britain’s increased engagement with Europe obliged Australia to ‘follow its own autonomous interests’ (Bolton, 1980, 209). British economist James Rollo has characterised the relationship of Australia and Britain as based on a model of inter-industry trade, whereby at the beginning of the twentieth century Australia sold raw materials to the UK and Britain sold manufactures to Australia (Rollo, 1994, 11). The Australian economy was geared to complement the UK economy: primary produce was exported from Australia to the UK and British manufactures were imported from the UK.
It argues that, while the EU is not a traditional type of superpower, it has evolved into an ‘accidental superpower’. That is, it is an influential player with roles and powers, or competences, which can be termed ‘supranational’ as they exist above the twenty-five constituent states of the EU. This distinctive role of the EU, which is explained in this chapter, results in a number of actions that can have largely unintended or ‘accidental’ consequences for other parts of the world. Many scholars have examined the EU’s external relations with reference to the transatlantic relationship or EU development aid programs, or the EU’s neighbourhood, Russia and future members.
3 Quoted in Paul Kelly, ‘Let’s court the newest big player’, The Australian, 24 June 1998. 4 Comments made by Prime Minister Howard to the Commonwealth Parliament, 14 May 2002. 1 2 38 Australia and the European Superpower A stocktake report on the EU–Australia relationship by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) at the April 2003 high-level meetings (the ministerial consultations) illustrates that a plethora of meetings has taken place in recent years. See Appendix 3. 6 The description is given by Benvenuti, 1998–99, p.