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Aligning Australia’s diplomacy, aid, and trade: national security remade?
Posted By Karl Claxton on June 11, 2014 @ 06:00
DFAT might not do strategy but its minister sure does. Julie Bishop will unveil a new international development policy next week. Although it’s tempting to dismiss claims this will mark a ‘paradigm-shift for Australia’s aid program’ as pre-launch puff, the occasion offers the government the chance to rehabilitate quietly the concept of national security, and might even represent the first glimmer of a new strategy for national security. While that project would likely be entirely different to the all-encompassing Rudd-Gillard model, a more restrained, disaggregated, and practically-focused approach to the concept isn’t without its attractions.
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[1] Image: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Julie-Bishop-Vietnam.jpg
[2] might not do strategy: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/why-doesnt-dfat-do-strategy/
[3] paradigm-shift for Australia’s aid program: http://www.npc.org.au/speakers/the-hon-julie-bishop-mp1.html
[4] more than double: http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2009/05/08/Keelty-Top-Cop-big-bucks-and-geopolitics.aspx?COLLCC=2317953149&
[5] National Security Statement: http://www.royalcommission.vic.gov.au/getdoc/596cc5ff-8a33-47eb-8d4a-9205131ebdd0/TEN.004.002.0437.pdf
[6] National Security Strategy: http://apo.org.au/files/Resource/dpmc_nationalsecuritystrategy_jan2013.pdf
[7] too optimistic: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/national-security-the-decade-after-the-decade-before/
[8] over-centralised: http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2012/01/06/PM-and-the-national-security-apparatus.aspx
[9] laundry lists: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4651120.html
[10] shifted primacy back to line agencies and staffers: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/election-2013/doubling-the-advisers-a-sign-of-global-clout/story-fn9qr68y-1226719667403
[11] reclassified as an associate secretary: http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/committees/estimate/ae927283-af8b-44ff-abc3-123a379bc833/toc_pdf/Finance%20and%20Public%20Administration%20Legislation%20Committee_2014_05_27_2516.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf#search=%22committees/estimate/ae927283-af8b-44ff-abc3-123a379bc833/0000%22
[12] the former-planet Pluto: http://www.astrobio.net/topic/solar-system/outer-solar-system/planetoids-beyond-pluto/
[13] reappearance of old-fashioned hard-power: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/hard-power-thats-a-knife/
[14] discretionary: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2014/s4015232.htm
[15] expansivist: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/in-a-changing-world-our-security-is-vital/story-e6frgd0x-1226834131061
[16] Coalition proposed an integrated National Security Policy: http://nsc.anu.edu.au/documents/occasional-3-white.pdf
[17] revived the NSC: http://www.cis.org.au/images/stories/policy-magazine/2004-winter/2004-20-2-peter-jennings.pdf
[18] AusAID would be reintegrated into DFAT: https://www.pm.gov.au/media/2013-09-18/coalition-will-restore-strong-stable-and-accountable-government
[19] depend on a safe, secure, and prosperous region: http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/Pages/2013/jb_sp_131030.aspx?ministerid=4
[20] Security dimensions of aid: https://www.aspi.org.au/publications/special-report-issue-38-a-better-fit-national-security-and-australias-aid-program
[21] objectives: http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Foreign_Affairs_Defence_and_Trade/Overseas_aid/Report/~/media/Committees/Senate/committee/fadt_ctte/overseas_aid/report/report.pdf
[22] benchmarks: http://aid.dfat.gov.au/Publications/Documents/external-consultation-paper.pdf
[23] private sector roles: http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Foreign_Affairs_Defence_and_Trade/Indo-Pacfic_Economic_Growth/Terms_of_Reference
[24] issues for women: http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=jfadt/women_girls/index.htm
[25] clear, consistent and constrained: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/balancing-act-on-national-security/story-e6frgd0x-1226560382318
[26] partnership/community-based: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/121064/20101125-1326/www.pm.gov.au/sites/default/files/file/documents/20081204_review_homeland_security.pdf
[27] what worked well and not-so-well: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/our-gold-plated-intervention-in-solomon-islands-expensive-but-essential-and-unfinished/
[28] expectations: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/united-states-so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/
[29] congested: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/files/hayward_jones_australia_the_indispensable_power.pdf
[30] suggested: http://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=8f20f45f-3790-4721-897d-dee1d4b1f43f&subId=32663
[31] recommends: http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Foreign_Affairs_Defence_and_Trade/Overseas_aid/Report/index
[32] single border agency: http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/sm/2014/sm214247.htm
[33] DFAT: http://foreignminister.gov.au/MediaLibrary/Visit%20to%20Vietnam,%20February%202014/3085500701.jpg