Governments use fear to promote political objectives. Through the exaggeration of external threats, fear as conceptualised in the writings of Hobbes, Barry Buzan, David Campbell and others, became a major factor in shaping Australia's post-war foreign and defence policies which were also intended to serve the government's domestic political agenda
Notes
Degree conferred 2006
Submitted to the School of History, Heritage and Society of the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 251-271)