# Michael Wesley

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Australia's Southeast Asia blind spot with Michael Wesley

Australia's cultural and strategic ties lie in the Western world and its economic links are overwhelmingly in North Asia. So what is Southeast Asia to Australia? Why does the region matter, and what should Australia do to overcome its long-sightedness? Michael Wesley is one of Australia's most inc…

Are you there Australia? It's me, South East Asia

How much do we Australians really understand South East Asia? Australia has long prioritised neighbours further north when it comes to our strategic alliances, but as China rises as a great power, have our blind spots become our greatest weakness?  Michael Wesley joins Geraldine Doogue and Latika B…

Meet the author - Michael Wesley

Michael Wesley was in conversation with Hugh White on his new Quarterly Essay Blind Spot. Southeast Asia and Australia's Future.

Is Southeast Asia Australia's blind spot? — with Michael Wesley and Geoff Raby

Australians love a holiday in Southeast Asia. But our proximity to this region also makes it key to our national security and prosperity. Yet Australia has hitched its security and foreign policy wagon to an increasingly unpredictable United States, while China asserts in dominance in our own backy…

Michael Wesley - Blind Spot: Southeast Asia and Australia’s Future

Australia has forgotten what keeps it safe. So argues Michael Wesley in this sharp and compelling essay about our place in the world. His previous books include There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia and Mind of the Nation: Universities in Australian Life. He is Professor of …

Australia's foreign aid dilemma - Jack Corbett

The Australian aid program faces a fundamental dilemma: how, in the absence of deep popular support, should it generate the political legitimacy required to safeguard its budget and administering institutions? A new book by Jack Corbett entitled 'Australia’s Foreign Aid Dilemma: Humanitarian Aspir…

Michael Wesley on Australia's need to recommit to Southeast Asia: "In historical terms"

Is Australia's security most directly determined by our regional neighbours? On this week’s Afternoon Light Georgina Downer speaks with Michael Wesley about how Southeast Asia has become a 'blind spot' of Australian diplomatic relations. Discussing whether Australia's most immediate and important …

Ep. 189: Contesting Australian grand strategy (and doing your homework)

This episode Darren goes full academic, using Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s recent Allan Gyngell Lecture as the starting point for a broader discussion of Australian grand strategy. Wong takes up Allan’s conception of foreign policy as a means of expanding Australia’s international space, increasin…

The Alliance | Does Australia Still Need America? John Howard on Trump, ANZUS and AUKUS

In a special series this week, Global Roaming is checking the use-by date on our relationship with the U.S. Signed on 1st September 1951, the ANZUS treaty has been the lynch-pin of Australia's security and foreign policy. As we approach the 75th anniversary of the alliance, it is perhaps more chall…

The Alliance | Why did we ally with the U.S. in the first place?

The ANZUS treaty might be based more on cynical self-interest than a shared system of democratic values.  In this episode of The Alliance mini-series, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue trace the origins of Australia's most important strategic partnership and examine how it has evolved through t…