INDIA-AUSTRALIA RELATIONS : CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES

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Currently witnessed developments in India-Australia bilateral relations are engaging the attention of scholars on both sides of the Indian Ocean. This book includes the contribution made by leading scholars from both India and Australia having bearing on the political economic and security realities of the emerging global order. Not only do they critically examine the evolving of the dynamics of the India-Australia relations but offer insightful analysis on the future trajectory of the bilateral relations highlighting the undercurrents of divergence and convergence in the policy orientations and overtures of the two countries. Purported not only to sustain the currently ongoing meaningful scholarly exchanges the volume provides the much-needed useful perspectives to the policy makers of both countries marking yet another milestone in the growing mutuality interests between the scholars from both sides of the Indian Ocean Table of Contents : Preface 1. Introduction D. Gopal 2. Conspicuous Hospitality: Cultivating a New Racial Etiquette in Australia, 1930-1960 David Walker 3. The Process of Positive 'Native Title' Determination in Australia: Leading to a 'Negative Title'? Priti Singh 4. Benign Whiteness in Australian Race Relations Auriol Weigold 5. Indians in Fiji in the Nineteenth Century: An International Communication Perspective Peter Putnis 6. State and Citizenship in the Asia-Pacific: A Case Study of Japan and Australia Varalaxmi Naik 7. Minority Women and Forced Migrations: A Comparative Study of Flight and Settlement Experiences of Women Refugees in India and Australia Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Roberta Julian 8. Culture and Security: A Lost Opportunity? Greg Battye 9. Compassion and Fear-Convergence and Divergence: Politics and the Media Peter Gale 10. Glimpses of India: A Military Dekko Susan Cowan 11. Whose Nation? Understanding Nationalism in India and Australia Swaraj Basu 12. Structural Economic Reforms of Australia and India: Prospects for Bilateral Linkages D. Gopal 13. Small Business Enterprises: A Comparative Overview of India and Australia Sailaja Gullapalli 14. India-Australia Relations: Pattern of Alternation between Convergences and Divergences Y. Yagama Reddy 15. Australia-India Relations During the Howard Era Rupakjyoti Borah 16. Economic Reforms in India and Australia: Challenges Ahead Jasbir Singh 17. Across the Ocean: Catching the ICT Trail Amita Singh 18. The Politics of Rising Expectations: Middle Class Experiences of Economic Restructuring in India and Australia Timothy J. Scrase and John Robinson 19. Reflections on India-Australia-USA Strategic Triangle Chintamani Mahapatra 20. Combating International Terrorism Post-9/11: Responses of Australia, India and Japan Rajesh Kapur 21. India-Australia Strategic Relations in the Post 9/11 World Tej Pratap Singh 22. Energy Security and the Indian Ocean Region: Constructing an Indian Ocean Energy Community Dennis Rumley and Sanjay Chaturvedi 23. Energy Resource Management: Experience and Prospects of Australia and India Nabeel Ajmal Mancheri 24. Australia and India: Indian Ocean Security Vanlaltluangi Aruna Ruth 25. Non-Traditional Challenges to Indian Ocean Security: Prospects for India-Australia Co-operation S. Utham Kumar Jamadhagni and S. I. Humayun 26. India and Australia in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Convergence and Divergences Yeshi Choedon Index Contributors About author : D. Gopal is Professor in Political Science and Programme Co-ordinator of Australian Studies at the School of Social Sciences Indira Gandhi National Open University. A scholar in International Relations Prof. Gopal has travelled Australia and delivered lectures in several universities in Australia. He has to his credit several of his published works in scholarly journals books and edited volumes.