Labor says supporting Ukraine an easy choice, but what about Taiwan?
The Chinese live-fire fiasco showed the government’s short-term domestic political considerations are hampering our ability to deter and damaging our credibility as an alliance partner.
There are two main theories in international relations. The realist school sees the world ruled by power and self-interest, or in more Trumpian terms, might and money. The other dominant school is liberal internationalism.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the United States led by president Harry Truman engaged in a liberal international foreign policy that promoted democracy, state sovereignty and global peace. It was in this era that the United Nations and other global institutions were born, as well as security alliances such as NATO and, importantly for Australia, ANZUS.
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Georgina Downer is the chief executive of the Robert Menzies Institute.
