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Our Exceptional Friend

Our Exceptional Friend

Australia's Fatal Alliance with the United States

by Emma Shortis
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/08/2021

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In Our Exceptional Friend, Emma Shortis draws on history, current affairs and questions of morality to mount a compelling and unique case as to why Australia's relationship with the United States needs a serious overhaul.

Australians are told that we have two choices in this world: the United States, or China. Faced with that choice, Australian governments of all persuasions have always sided with America - even if that means siding with a President like Donald J. Trump. While the election of Joe Biden has led many of us to hope that we might be heading for a calmer, more compassionate world, and a reset of Australia and America's 'special relationship,' going back to 'normal' is not only a bad idea - it's a dangerous and immoral one.

Our Exceptional Friend challenges the old assumption that we have no option other than to submit to one global power at the expense of another, and asks Australians to really examine why it is that we welcome American dominance. In this, our 70th year of the Australia-US alliance, historian Emma Shortis argues it's time to take a fresh and unflinching look at our special relationship, and examine whose interests it really serves. We don't have to make a binary choice between subservience to an increasingly broken democracy and abandoning the alliance. There are other options. How can we make it better for us, and make the world a better place for it?

 

ISBN:
9781743797839
9781743797839
Category:
Geopolitics
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-08-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hardie Grant Books
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
234x153mm
Weight:
0.36kg
Emma Shortis

Dr Emma Shortis is a nationally recognised expert in the history and politics of the United States. Emma uses her expertise in history to interpret and explain what on earth is happening in America today, and what it means for Australia, in a compassionate and accessible way. Emma is a regular guest on ABC radio and television, such as The Drum, Today and ABC podcasts Russia, If You’re Listening and The Signal.

Emma also co-hosts RMIT’s popular history podcast, Barely Gettin’ By, with her friend Dr Chloe Ward. She writes regularly for mainstream media including ABC News Online and the Sydney Morning Herald. Before joining RMIT, Emma spent a year in the United States as the Fox-Zucker International Fellow at Yale University, where she finished writing her PhD in History. In 2020, she was named RMIT’s Media Commentator of the year.

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