Introduction: the challenge of globalisation -- 1. Globalisation, sovereignty and citizenship -- 2. Citizenship without nationhood -- 3. Nation-state and citizenship -- 4. Imperial dominion to Pacific nation -- 5. Australian citizen subjects -- 6. New world orders -- 7. Citizenship in a global nation
Summary
In this provocative book, the authors argue that Australia has always been a 'globalised' nation. In terms of its economy, political sovereignty and sense of national identity, the country and its citizens have had to create for themselves a complex position between dependence and irrelevance