Australia's Uranium Trade: The Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges of a Contentious Export - Hardcover

Frühling, Stephan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1409429911 ISBN 13: 9781409429913

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Australia's Uranium Trade explores why the export of uranium remains a highly controversial issue in Australia and how this affects Australia's engagement with the strategic, regime and market realms of international nuclear affairs. The book focuses on the key challenges facing Australian policy makers in a twenty-first century context where civilian nuclear energy consumption is expanding significantly while at the same time the international nuclear nonproliferation regime is subject to increasing, and unprecedented, pressures. By focusing on Australia as a prominent case study, the book is concerned with how a traditionally strong supporter of the international nuclear nonproliferation regime is attempting to recalibrate its interest in maximizing the economic and diplomatic benefits of increased uranium exports during a period of flux in the strategic, regime and market realms of nuclear affairs. Australia's Uranium Trade provides broader lessons for how - indeed whether - nuclear suppliers worldwide are adapting to the changing nuclear environment internationally.

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About the Author

Michael Clarke is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Stephan Frühling is a Lecturer in strategic and defence studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and is also the managing editor of the journal Security Challenges. Andrew O’Neil is Director of the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409429911
• ISBN 13: 9781409429913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Clarke Michael