TY  - BOOK
AU  - Connery, David
AB  - East Timor’s violent transition to independence, which began early in 1999, presented the Australian Government with a significant foreign policy crisis. This crisis was not sudden, totally unexpected or ultimately threatening to Australia’s survival. But the crisis consumed the attention of Australian leaders, saw significant national and international resources employed, and led to the largest operational deployment for the Australian Defence Force since the Vietnam War. This crisis also created a significant rupture in the hitherto carefully-managed relationships between Australia and its important neighbor, Indonesia. The events of September 1999 ultimately led to the birth of a new nation and the deaths of many people who might have otherwise expected to enjoy that independence. In this major study, David Connery examines how the Australian Government—at the political and bureaucratic levels—developed and managed national security policy in the face of this crisis. The events, and the policymaking processes that both led and followed, are reconstructed using sixty interviews with key participants. This study identifies certain characteristics of crisis policymaking in Australia that include a dominant executive, secrecy, external actors and complexity.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_458922
ID  - OAPEN ID: 458922
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 646089701
KW  - politics and goverment
KW  - east timor
KW  - australia
KW  - foreign relations
KW  - Canberra
KW  - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia)
KW  - Government of Australia
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - International Force East Timor
KW  - United Nations
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/37f342c5-6791-4f89-a802-d003e1a18886/458922.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33785
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2010
TI  - Crisis Policymaking: Australia and the East Timor Crisis of 1999null
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