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Regulating the Rise of China

Australia’s Foray into Middle Power Economics

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Michael Peters

    1. School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

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  • Revises the existing narrative of Australia's engagement with China
  • Argues that under Prime Minister Rudd, the Australian Government acted decisively and soberly to respond to the rise of China, and understood this problem in a deep and nuanced way
  • Appeals to the Australian foreign policy community, students, international policymakers working on responses of liberal states to the rise of China and heterodox policy studies scholars

Part of the book series: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy (PEPP)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Michael Peters
    Pages 1-22

  3. Governmental Policy Analysis

    • Michael Peters
    Pages 23-63

  4. The Policy Departure

    • Michael Peters
    Pages 65-118

  5. The Policy Problematisation

    • Michael Peters
    Pages 119-151

  6. Official Discourses of Economics

    • Michael Peters
    Pages 153-187

  7. Official Discourses of Security

    • Michael Peters
    Pages 189-229

  8. A Governmental Account of the Policy

    • Michael Peters
    Pages 231-250

  9. Evaluating the Policy

    • Michael Peters
    Pages 251-274

  10. Conclusion

    • Michael Peters
    Pages 275-279

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 281-309
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About this book

This book revises the existing account of the first Rudd Government's engagement with China, placing Australian foreign direct investment screening policy at the centre of the story. At the time, the Rudd Government was accused of holding an unnecessarily interventionist approach to Chinese Sovereign-Owned Enterprise investments into the Australian mining sector. This book claims that the Australian Government had a deep and coherent understanding of the problem posed by Chinese investments that went well-beyond any simplistic 'China Inc.' or geopolitical threats. The key policymakers believed that the Chinese state-directed investments threatened the integrity of the liberal governance structures on which the Australian state is founded, and so Australian sovereignty itself. While the response of the Rudd Government was largely ineffectual, the logic underpinning it remains the best framework for guiding Australia's engagement with China into the 2020s, as well as the engagementof other liberal states coming to grips with China's rise.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

    Michael Peters

About the author

Michael Peters studied International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He teaches International Relations and works on the editorial and publicity teams of the Economic and Labour Relations Review.

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