Australia in the Expanding Global Crisis
Australia in the Expanding Global Crisis

Author: Erik Paul

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-24

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 9811522790

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This book is a study of the key components and contradictions of the escalating global crisis and their impact on modern Australia. It elaborates the damage being done to democracy, human rights, and the fabric of society. Racism is structured in the universality of the nation-state and capitalism in the 21st century. Racism is a process that discriminates and segregates the human species, creating major conflicts and antagonisms. It generates a global struggle for equality and social justice. The global crisis is energised by the contradiction between a global capitalism that is in effect totalitarian and the imperatives of economic growth driving every nation-state of the world. Racism is embodied in the emergence of a new imperialism to maintain Western global hegemony, a growing source of instability and violence in the world system, endangering the survival of humanity. The book advocates the promotion of full democratic participation in the struggle for social, political, and economic equality.

Australia in the Anthropocene
Australia in the Anthropocene

Author: Erik Paul

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2023-01-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789811981777

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The book is a study on planetary realism in a critical analysis of Australia in the age of the Anthropocene. It contextualises Australia in the degradation of the biosphere deeply harmful to humanity’s wellbeing, accelerating the threat of nuclear war and the tensions of a declining democracy. The Anthropocene is a critical period, threatening the viability of the Australian nation-state. It involves the decarbonisation of the economy driven by domestic and foreign corporate power, and the geopolitics of world domination as a close ally of the US. Australia’s militarisation for war against China must be contested in the pursuit for a green and just new deal framed in the foreign policy of reconciliation with Asia, including a fully cooperative entente with China

Australian Imperialism
Australian Imperialism

Author: Erik Paul

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789811619151

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In his critical study of Australian imperialism, Erik Paul analyses the making, character and contours of the geopolitical state from the time of the British invasion and colonisation to the present, expanding the country’s continental political and economic power. War is the crucible for its hegemonic power, nationalism, and politics. The book exposes and dissects capitalist imperialism to control and manage a growing population and to impose the grand strategy of a US client state. The geopolitics in the partitioning of the earth and the exploitation of people and the biosphere continue to create major conflict, inequality, and human suffering. Australia plays an important role in the intensification of the struggle among major powers and in the outcome of an expanding global ecological and hegemonic crisis. But the existing Australian state of exception constitutes a major obstacle to a reconciliation with China and to a peaceful regional and world order.

The Vulnerable Country
The Vulnerable Country

Author: Tom Conley

Publisher: UNSW Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1742230121

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Australia was born vulnerable. From its beginnings as a precarious convict settlement on the 'other side of the world' through the development of self-governing colonies, to Federation and beyond recognising and dealing with vulnerability led Australians to embrace an insular attitude to the outside world.

Global Crisis
Global Crisis

Author: Geoffrey Parker

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-03-15

Total Pages: 944

ISBN-13: 0300189192

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The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In this meticulously researched volume, historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who experienced the many political, economic, and social crises that occurred between 1618 to the late 1680s. He also incorporates the scientific evidence of climate change during this period into the narrative, offering a strikingly new understanding of the General Crisis. Changes in weather patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, malnutrition, and disease; and as material conditions worsened, wars, rebellions, and revolutions rocked the world.

Australian Imperialism
Australian Imperialism

Author: Erik Paul

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2021-07-09

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 9789811619151

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In his critical study of Australian imperialism, Erik Paul analyses the making, character and contours of the geopolitical state from the time of the British invasion and colonisation to the present, expanding the country’s continental political and economic power. War is the crucible for its hegemonic power, nationalism, and politics. The book exposes and dissects capitalist imperialism to control and manage a growing population and to impose the grand strategy of a US client state. The geopolitics in the partitioning of the earth and the exploitation of people and the biosphere continue to create major conflict, inequality, and human suffering. Australia plays an important role in the intensification of the struggle among major powers and in the outcome of an expanding global ecological and hegemonic crisis. But the existing Australian state of exception constitutes a major obstacle to a reconciliation with China and to a peaceful regional and world order.

Australian Imperialism: Australian Imperialism
Australian Imperialism: Australian Imperialism

Author: Erik Paul

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789811619175

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In his critical study of Australian imperialism, Erik Paul analyses the making, character and contours of the geopolitical state from the time of the British invasion and colonisation to the present, expanding the country's continental political and economic power. War is the crucible for its hegemonic power, nationalism, and politics. The book exposes and dissects capitalist imperialism to control and manage a growing population and to impose the grand strategy of a US client state. The geopolitics in the partitioning of the earth and the exploitation of people and the biosphere continue to create major conflict, inequality, and human suffering. Australia plays an important role in the intensification of the struggle among major powers and in the outcome of an expanding global ecological and hegemonic crisis. But the existing Australian state of exception constitutes a major obstacle to a reconciliation with China and to a peaceful regional and world order. Erik Paul (MA Minn; PhD UC Berkeley) is with the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on Australia's relations with the Asia-Pacific region and issues of regional and world peace. His latest book is Australia in the Expanding Global Crisis (2020).

Dick Smith's Population Crisis
Dick Smith's Population Crisis

Author: Dick Smith

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1459614615

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In 2011 the world's population exceeded 7 billion. Each year we add nearly 80 million people and by mid-century we will require twice as much food and double the energy we use today. Australia will be deeply affected by these trends - we have the fastest growing population of any developed nation.These are the staggering facts that confronted Dick Smith. They set him on his crusade to alert us to the dangers of unsustainable growth. They are the facts that have convinced him that if we are to ensure the survival of our civilisation and the health of the planet then we must put a stop to population growth, now.As our cities continue their unrestrained growth, as we battle daily on crowded public transport and clogged freeways, and as we confront the reality of water and power shortages, Dick challenges the long-held myth that growth is good for us. But more importantly he offers ways for us to re-invent our economy, to reassess the way we live and to at least slow down that ticking clock. This is a provocative, powerful and urgent call to arms.

Potential Growth of Australia and New Zealand in the Aftermath of the Global Crisis
Potential Growth of Australia and New Zealand in the Aftermath of the Global Crisis

Author: Mr. Yan Sun

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2010-05-01

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 145520031X

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Using a production function method, this paper assesses the impact of the global crisis on the potential growth of Australia and New Zealand. The two countries have not been hit hard by the global crisis, but have large net external liabilities. The paper finds that the main negative impact of the global crisis is likely to come through higher costs of capital, offset partly by a higher return to capital from strong demand for commodities by emerging Asia. It estimates medium-term potential growth of about 3 percent for Australia and 2. percent for New Zealand, higher than that of many other advanced economies.

The Geopolitics of Australia in the New Millennium
The Geopolitics of Australia in the New Millennium

Author: Gabriele Abbondanza

Publisher: Aracne

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 8854861642

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The last few years, dominated by the wake of the global economic crisis and the marginalization of the old Western powers, have by contrast witnessed the political and economic growth of Australia. This vast country, sparsely populated and with a light influence in global affairs, has managed to carve out an important place within growing Asian powers, supported by strong economic growth. How did this happen and what path has this peculiar country followed? This agile essay traces the country’s history, economy and geopolitics, from early colonial years to the present day, showing its strengths and weaknesses, key decisions of the past and possible outlooks for the future. A starting point for looking at the geopolitics of Australia and its remarkable complexity which, against all odds, has enabled this Western country to avert the effects of the global economic crisis and, at the same time, has allowed it to embark on growth that is not merely economic.