Aid policy
Provision by Australia of foreign aid to developing countries is largely a post‐1945 phenomenon. Foreign aid falls under the purview of the minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, assisted by ...
appeasement
A policy of giving in to hostile demands of another nation to avoid war, primarily associated with British and increasingly also with French foreign policy between the two World Wars. From 1933 to ...
Arthur Henderson
(1863–1935).Labour politician. Brought up on Tyneside and apprenticed as an ironfounder, Henderson, then a fervent Gladstonian Liberal, moved slowly to the view that the political future of the ...
Equality and Inequality
The politics of the world today are beset by tensions arising from inequality. Whether it be within a country or between countries or both, the privileges and valuables enjoyed by ...
force
N.In public international law, any action by a state in breach of the norms of international law as stated in the UN Charter and in other international conventions. This may include the use of ...
Frank Kellogg
(b. Potsdam, New York, 22 Dec. 1856; d. St Paul, Minnesota, 21 Dec. 1937)US; Secretary of State 1925–9 Kellogg was brought up in Minnesota, where he practised as a lawyer. He was a Republican, but ...
international Relations
The discipline that studies interactions between and among states, and more broadly, the workings of the international system as a whole. It can be conceived of either as a multidisciplinary field, ...
International Systems
In a 1947 Princeton speech General George C. Marshall doubted “whether a man can think with full wisdom and with deep convictions regarding certain of the basic issues of today ...
Japan–Australia
The contemporary Australia–Japan relationship is the deepest of Australia's relationships with an Asian nation. It is mature and multifaceted. The relationship has evolved through eras in which the ...
Jean Monnet
(b. 9 Nov. 1888, d. 16 Mar. 1979).French economist A largely self-educated economist from Cognac, he was a civil servant at the Ministry of Commerce (1915–19), a consultant economist to the ...
