Publisher's Synopsis
Offering a comprehensive theoretical critique of the closed and introspective approaches which both define and determine contemporary Australian defence and security policy, this volume assesses basic assumptions of mainstream security thinking.;The editors call on policy makers, academics and others working on defence and security issues to think more critically and theoretically; to begin to ask some of the difficult and searching questions that are being raised in other disciplines; and finally to recognise and accept the contested and problematic nature of many of the concepts that they advance as if they were self-evident. This work complements and advances the work of the Secure Australian Project and other critics of the Australian security mainstream.
