Strange Neighbours: Australia-Indonesia Relationship

by Desmond Ball and Helen Wilson

Desmond Ball (Editor) and Helen Wilson (Editor)

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Indonesia and Australia, though geographically close countries, are strangers in many significant respects. They do share common interests, including the objectives of a stable and secure region and economic well-being. But they also have many differences, since they are quite unlike in their respective cultural heritages, religious beliefs and practices, political structures, demographic bases, levels and patterns of economic development, and military forces and defence policies. Australia's recent history has reflected the interplay of these mutual interests and different perspectives, with the state of the Indonesia-Australia relationship at any given time being determined by the prevailing balance between these...Read more
  • ISBN10 0044422334
  • ISBN13 9780044422334
  • Publish Date 6 March 1991
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 March 1998
  • Publish Country AU
  • Imprint Allen & Unwin
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 288
  • Language English