Introduction / Marianne Hanson and William T. Tow -- 1. Alliances and coalitions / William T. Tow -- 2. Controlling the spread of weapons of mass destruction / Andrew Butfoy -- 3. Ethnic conflict and nationalism / William Maley -- 4. Human rights / Marianne Hanson -- 5. The new humanitarian interventionism / Tim Dunne, Cameron Hill and Marianne Hanson -- 6. Population, migration, and refugee trends / Anne Brown and Nancy Viviani -- 7. Environmental politics / Lorraine Elliott -- 8. Gender and world politics / Jan Jindy Pettman -- 9. Pandemic threats to security / Peter Chalk -- 10. Globalisation: just another millennium bug? / Richard Leaver
Summary
This edited volume links selected international relations (IR) issues to various dimensions of Australian foreign policy. It represents one of the first efforts to integrate specifically Australian-based thinking about such diverse global problems into a readily understandable guide of how they will affect our lives in the early twenty-first century