This book offers the first comprehensive account of the emergence of the IR discipline in Australia. Initially influenced by British ideas, the first generation of Australian international relations practitioners demonstrated in their work a strong awareness of the unique local conditions to which their theorizing should respond.

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James Cotton is Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of New South Wales, ADFA, Canberra, Australia. His most recent books are Middle Power Dreaming: Australia in World Affairs 2006-2010 (with John Ravenhill, 2012); and Australia and the United Nations (with David Lee, 2012).

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1. The Institutional Setting 2. W. Harrison Moore: Imperialism and Internationalism 3. Frederic Eggleston: The Empire and the Pacific 4. A. C. V. Melbourne: The Limits of Early Australian School Nationalism 5. H. Duncan Hall: Theorizing the Commonwealth 6. W. K. Hancock: The Commonwealth and World Government 7. Fred Alexander: The Duty of Public Education 8. W. Macmahon Ball: A Focus on Asia 9. Walter Crocker: The Afro-Asian Challenge to the International System 10. An Australian School of International Relations