{"id":5955,"date":"2019-06-17T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2020-02-05T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T06:42:57","slug":"hawke-on-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/hawke-on-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawke on foreign policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"7646\" class=\"graf graf--p graf--hasDropCapModel graf--hasDropCap graf--leading\">The Hawke Government came to power in March 1983 during a turbulent period in international affairs. The world was in the grip of a second Cold War between the US and USSR and the existential threat of nuclear war remained a daily reality for policy makers and citizens. Australia had barely recovered from a major global recession and the outlook for international institutions\u200a\u2014\u200acrucial for smaller states in world politics\u200a\u2014\u200awas highly uncertain.<\/p>\n<p id=\"0ff9\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Like all new Prime Ministers, Bob Hawke found that foreign policy was a domain where executive government could realise its policy agenda largely untrammelled by legislative interference. The leitmotif of the Hawke Government\u2019s foreign policy was Australia as a constructive global middle power pursuing its national interest through responsible international citizenship. The Fraser and Whitlam Governments had developed this theme, but the Hawke Government injected greater policy substance, as well as diplomatic resources, into raising Australia\u2019s profile as a force for positive change in multilateral fora\u200a\u2014\u200afrom the UN to the South Pacific Forum.<\/p>\n<p>Pursuing \u201cniche\u201d diplomacy in areas as diverse as arms control, trade liberalisation, the environment, and human rights, under the stewardship of Hawke and Foreign Ministers Bill Hayden (1983\u201388) and Gareth Evans (1988\u201391\/96), Australia\u2019s capacity to influence policy outcomes in multilateral settings reached a peak that we have not witnessed since.<\/p>\n<p>Please click here to read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-machinery-of-government\/hawke-on-foreign-policy-f2322648b960\">&#8220;Hawke on foreign policy&#8221;<\/a> article published at the Policy Innovation Hub&#8217;s Machinery of Government, written by Griffith Asia Institute member, Professor Andrew O&#8217;Neil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hawke Government came to power in March 1983 during a turbulent period in international affairs. 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