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The abuses of realism and Australian security interests.(Commentary)(Report)
The 2007 Defence Update
The Defence Update 2007 (1) comes after a decade of constant and still unfinished increases in defence spending, a tripling of domestic security spending, huge weapons systems orders, Australian Defence Force deployments from Lebanon to the Solomon Islands, three large and extremely demanding deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor, and at a time when world politics is turning on the hinge of a massive strategic miscalculation by Australia's closest ally. The Update is a deeply flawed policy document, shaped by double standards and selective learning, shortsightedness and botched use of realism, the aggressive demands of alliance ...
- Russia, the West and energy: A question of double standards?
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune February 7, 2007 700+ words
...defend what it sees as its national interests? After all, the most influential...charges of hypocrisy and double standards, charges that the Third...comes to defending their national interests. The economic absurdities...
- India conspirator-in-chief of Swat battle: Shujaat.
- Newspaper article from: The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan) May 23, 2009 700+ words
...League House on Saturday, president PML-Q Ch Shujaat Hussain said some politicians have adopted double standards which was against national interests. Former Punjab Chief Minister Ch Pervaiz Elahi was also present. The armed forces are fighting...
- Gathering to decide what to do. (General Assembly Debate).(terrorism)(Excerpt)
- Magazine article from: UN Chronicle December 1, 2001 700+ words
...for Foreign Affairs of Austria Nothing can justify terrorism. There should be no room for double standards, palliatives and narrow national interests. Vilayat Mukhtar ogly Guliyev, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan We must be visionary...
- CPNE Seminar: National interests need to be defined: Speakers.
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International June 1, 2004 700+ words
...suppressed in the name self manipulated national interests. "National interests and freedom of expression should be in...the first session of seminar said that national interests were changed at the whims of rulers and...
- Double Standards, Double Talk, and Multiple Troubles.
- Magazine article from: Independent Review PERLMUTTER, PHILIP September 22, 2000 700+ words
...are claiming to be the victims of double standards--blacks and whites, women and...for what they did." To Webster, double standards involve principles that are applied...break in today's society. To apply double standards is morally wrong. Religious and secular...
- When rules don't count.(double standards)(Column)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Leo, John August 7, 2000 700+ words
...mistake of sorts in my recent column on double standards: I ran out of space before I could...Marcuse. If a National Museum of Double Standards is ever built, we should name it...By the late 1980s, many of the double standards Marcuse called for were in place...
- Indo-US nuke deal smacks of "double standards": China.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. December 7, 2006 700+ words
Indo-US nuke deal smacks of "double standards": China Beijing, Dec 7 (PTI...civilian deal, saying it smacked of "double-standards" in the global efforts to rein in...nuclear non-proliferation, the double-standards adopted by some Western countries...
- National interests.
- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea February 6, 2007 700+ words
...supersedes considerations on national interests. Reps. Kang Ki-gab and...States serves Korea's national interests and individual lawmakers...differing opinions about how national interests should be pursued. But...
Source: HighBeam Research, The abuses of realism and Australian security...