Introduction  vii

1:         Domestic and external factors in foreign policy   1

2:         Ideal and actuality in foreign policy            22

3:         The search for identity and security          43

4:         Australia’s options    84

5:         The emerging power struggle in the Pacific          106

6:         Changing relationships between the great powers          130

7:         Conflict and social change in Southeast Asia

8:         Niugini independence: illusion or reality   182

9:         Epilogue         200

Chronology    209

Bibliography  219

Index  221