The fast changing international environment of today – where issues of economic globalisation and transnational security have become central concerns – has not only reinforced the mutuality of Australian and Indian interests but in turn opened new opportunities for closer cooperation, thereby setting a new milestone in the past fifty years of the history of Indo-Australian relations. The rapidly maturing bilateral relationship is already reaping substantial dividends offered by the more open and competitive economies across the Indian Ocean. With the groundwork already laid and given the political will and positive disposition, both the governments are committed to taking the necessary initiative to deepen further the bilateral relationship in the years ahead. The present book – a compendium of critical analysis by both Indian and Australian scholars with abiding interest in developing a more dynamic and forward-looking approach to the bilateral relationship – seeks to identify a range of issues regarded as being vital in the evolving India-Australia relations, and provides useful insights for the policy-makers into the as yet unexplored opportunities in both the countries – all with a view to enhance grater awareness and closer engagement between the two countries and their peoples.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR D. Gopal
D. Gopal is Programme Coordinator at the Masters level in the Faculty of Political Science, Coordinator of Australian Studies, School of social Sciences, IGNOU. A Relations, Prof. Gopal obtained his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He also received training in Distance Education in the Institute of Education, University of London, and has been Visiting Fellow at UK Open University, Milton Keynes. He has contributed extensively to the development of academic programmes, curriculum and course material for IGNOU. His recent interest is the expansion of Australian Studies and he is developing a Post-graduate Diploma in Australian Studies at his University. Among several of his research publications, his latest is Australia in the Emerging Global Order (2002).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dennis Rumley
Dennis Rumley is associate Professor, School of social and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia. He gained a Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia and has taught at the University of Western Australia since then, apart from 1991-3 when he was Professor of Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo. He has published widely in various areas of political geography. His most recent book is the Geopolitics of Australia's Regional Relation, and his current research projects are in the areas of water security, Australia's "arc of instability", regionalism and Australia-Asia relations. He is a full member of the International Geographical Union Commission on the world Political Map, English-language editor of Chiri, the Japanese journal of human geography, and on the editorial boards of Geojournal and Political Geography.
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