Responding to Asia-Pacific human rights issues: Implications for Australian-American relations

Australian Journal of International Affairs

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-58

  Albinski, Henry S ^a,b  

^a Dept Polit Sci Australian New Z ^*

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPOLITICAL RELATIONS; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; REGIONAL POLITICS;

ASIA; AUSTRALIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC;

EID: 0030429312     PISSN: 10357718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10357719608445169     Document Type: Article

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1. Professor of Political Science and Australian and New Zealand Studies; Director, Australia-New Zealand Studies Center, The Pennsylvania State University.
2. Russell B. Nye, This Almost Chosen People: Essays in the History of American Ideas (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1966) p. 164.
3. Ira Wolf (Assistant Trade Representative for Japan and China), interview with Florence Chong in Australian (16 May 1994).
4. Gareth Evans and Bruce Grant, Australia's Foreign Relations in the World of the 1990s (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1991) p.42.
5. Gareth Evans, interview remarks cited by Peter Cole-Adams in Canberra Times (22 July 1994).
6. John Shattuck (Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor), cited in US Department of State Dispatch 5, 29 (18 July 1994) p.481.
7. Thomas Carothers, 'The Democracy Nostrum', World Policy Journal 11, 3(Fall 1994) p.51 (emphasis in original).
8. Warren Christopher, 'America's Leadership, America's Opportunity', Foreign Policy 98 (Spring 1995) p.3. In his sweeping study of the subject, Tony Smith concludes that 'this country's greatest triumphs in foreign affairs have been the result of its liberal democratic internationalism, and that American security would surely suffer were this vision to be forgotten today, when nationalist and religious extremism are breeding anarchy and militarism in a world whose increasing political fragmentation calls for determined American leadership'. Tony Smith, America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) p.345. The connection between Asian values and US policy is treated by David I. Hitchcock, Asian Values and the United States: How Much Conflict? (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1994).
9. Warren Christopher, 'America's Leadership, America's Opportunity', Foreign Policy 98 (Spring 1995) p.3. In his sweeping study of the subject, Tony Smith concludes that 'this country's greatest triumphs in foreign affairs have been the result of its liberal democratic internationalism, and that American security would surely suffer were this vision to be forgotten today, when nationalist and religious extremism are breeding anarchy and militarism in a world whose increasing political fragmentation calls for determined American leadership'. Tony Smith, America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) p.345. The connection between Asian values and US policy is treated by David I. Hitchcock, Asian Values and the United States: How Much Conflict? (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1994).
10. Warren Christopher, 'America's Leadership, America's Opportunity', Foreign Policy 98 (Spring 1995) p.3. In his sweeping study of the subject, Tony Smith concludes that 'this country's greatest triumphs in foreign affairs have been the result of its liberal democratic internationalism, and that American security would surely suffer were this vision to be forgotten today, when nationalist and religious extremism are breeding anarchy and militarism in a world whose increasing political fragmentation calls for determined American leadership'. Tony Smith, America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) p.345. The connection between Asian values and US policy is treated by David I. Hitchcock, Asian Values and the United States: How Much Conflict? (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1994).
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16. The foregoing discussion derives in part from the present author's 'Australia, China and the US', Current Affairs Bulletin 71, 6 (April/May 1995) pp.29-36.
17. The visiting delegation did undertake extensive human rights inquiries, and its report was critical of many features of Vietnam's practices. See Australia-Vietnam Dialogue: The Currents of Change. A Report of the Visit of the Australian Parliamentary Consultative Delegation to Vietnam 5-12 April 1995 (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1995).
18. Paul Keating, address in Darwin of 5 September 1995, transcript, p.7. Normalisation of diplomatic relations did not automatically make Vietnam eligible for various US commercial concessions, such as under MFN, GSP, and the Export-Import Bank-privileges that carry statutory, human/social rights conditions.
19. Paul Keating, Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives (17 November 1994) p.3730.
20. Gareth Evans, article in Herald-Sun (Melbourne, 8 February 1995).
21. Paul Keating, cited in Age (Melbourne, 30 June 1994).
22. A summary version, written in early 1994, was that just as US-Indonesian relations appeared to be on a collision course, 'the administration went back to the drawing board. The result is a plan for a more balanced and coherent handling of US strategic, trade and human rights interests'. Thomas Hubbard, a State Department official who led that review, says the new policy is 'realistic and results oriented'. One piece of it is just plain common sense: avoid unnecessary affronts to Indonesian sensitivity. Eduardo Lachica, Asian Wall Street Journal Week (25 April 1994).
23. Robert Ray, interview with Ian McPhedran in Canberra Times (5 September 1994).
24. For a forthright American view to this effect, see remarks by Winston Lord at the conclusion of the post-South Pacific Forum dialogue in Canberra Times (4 August 1994).
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26. Greg Sheridan, Australian (7 December 1993).
27. Robert A. Manning and Paula Stern, 'The Myth of the Pacific Community, Foreign Affairs 73, 6 (November/December 1994) p.87.
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29. Elaine Sciolino, New York Times (17 November 1994).
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35. For assessments of ASEAN, US and other influences on the release of Suu Kyi, see Bertil Lintner, Far Eastern Economic Review (20 July 1995) and John McBeth and Bertil Lintner, Far Eastern Economic Review (17 August 1995).
36. For assessments of ASEAN, US and other influences on the release of Suu Kyi, see Bertil Lintner, Far Eastern Economic Review (20 July 1995) and John McBeth and Bertil Lintner, Far Eastern Economic Review (17 August 1995).
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40. Strobe Talbot (Deputy Secretary of State), cited in Australian Financial Review (6 February 1995).