Bulletin n. 3/2014
February 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Murray Philomena, Benvenuti Andrea
    EU-Australia Relations at Fifty: Reassessing a Troubled Relationship
    in Australian Journal of Politics & History , Volume 60, Issue 3, Special Issue: Faultlines: Cohesion and Division in Modern Europe, September ,  2014 ,  431-448
    This article critically examines the Australia-EU relationship over the past five decades or so. A narrow formulation of Australia's national interests has become transformed into a broader engagement, with an increasingly regionalised and multilateralised common agenda. The article argues that the relationship changed because of a number of factors. The first is Australia's changing relationship with the UK as interlocutor and market. The second is the eventual diminution of the pivotal role of a single policy, agriculture. The third is the transformation of the EU's international role, with impact on Australia. The fourth is the development of both traditional and non-traditional security concerns that were increasingly shared by each side. The fifth and final factor is the common interest in the Asia Pacific region.
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